Customize your Player Settings
Customize the look and feel of your Media Player
🧰 What You Will Need
- A Membership.io account
- Content uploaded in your library
Step 1 - Access Your Player Settings
You can access your player settings by clicking your profile icon > Settings > Player or by clicking this link.
Below is a quick view of all the Player-specific settings:
Step 2 - Change your settings
It's time to adjust your settings! The player settings are categorized into Controls, Timeline, Video, Info, Appearance, and Privacy. You can preview the changes directly on the player to see how they appear to your members.
Controls
Under Controls, you can fine-tune how your audience interacts with your media player. Try out different combinations to find what works best, or use the default setup as a solid starting point.
Timeline
In the Timeline tab, you’ll find options that affect how the progress bar displays and how users navigate through your content. We recommend turning them all on, especially if you’re using the Chapters feature to help your audience jump to key moments.
Video
Next, under Video, consider enabling features like "Play on Open" for shared links. We highly recommend keeping "Fullscreen" and "Volume" toggled on. The rest are up to your audience’s viewing preferences.
Info
Under Info, you can customize what displays when the video is paused—like the title, description, and date. Play the preview on the right, pause it, and watch the changes appear in real time.
🔥Hot Tip! Removing the Date from your videos can be very useful when sharing "evergreen" content.
Appearance
In the Appearance tab, you can change the color of your player, remove the Membership.io logo, and upload your own branding if you're on the Start plan or higher. You can also toggle the dark background overlay when the player is paused, which is helpful if you want viewers to focus on something on the screen.
Privacy
Finally, check out the Privacy settings. Here, you can control whether your audience can download or share media files, and whether to show the Transcriptions Search* icon in the player. We recommend leaving that on, as it’s a powerful feature built right into Membership.io.
You can toggle the feedback options for your content pause 1secand configure which domains are allowed to view it.
The Transcriptions Search toggle is the main one to focus on here, as the magnifying glass that appears in the top-right corner of your Player is controlled by this. Leave that turned on, unless for some reason you don't want to show off the amazing Membership.io functionality that comes standard with any media uploaded to the site.
Step 3 - Save your changes
Before you leave this page, be sure to hit Save above the video preview on the right to have these settings shown wherever your content is shared.