All Video Share includes its own video player, and nearly every part of it can be changed — its size, which buttons appear, whether it starts on its own, and what happens before the video begins.
Everything on this page is found under Components → All Video Share → Options → Player. Those are your site-wide defaults; any menu item, module or shortcode can override them for one place only.
These settings apply to your own video files and to streams. YouTube and Vimeo videos play inside the provider’s own player, which brings its own controls and ignores what you set here.
On This Page
Size and Shape
Two settings decide how big the player is.
Player Width is the widest the player may grow, in pixels. Leave it empty — which is the default — and the player simply fills whatever space it is given, shrinking to fit phones automatically. Set a number only when you want to stop a video stretching across a very wide screen.
Player Height (Ratio) sets the shape. Rather than a fixed height, you give a percentage, so the player keeps its proportions at every screen size. The useful values are:
56.25— widescreen, the shape of almost every modern video. This is the default and usually the right answer.75— the older, squarer 4:3 shape, for archive footage.62.50— the proportions of a computer monitor.41.70— cinemascope, for very wide film.100— square, for social media clips.
If your video sits inside black bars, the ratio does not match the footage. Change it to suit, rather than trying to fix it with height settings.
Playback
- Autoplay — start the video as soon as the page opens.
- Loop — start again from the beginning once the video ends.
- Initial Volume Level — the volume the player opens at, from 0 to 100.
- Muted — start with the sound turned off. Viewers can turn it back on.
- Keyboard Controls — let viewers control the player from the keyboard.
Autoplay needs Muted. Every modern browser blocks videos that start playing with sound. If autoplay matters to you, switch Muted on as well — otherwise the video will simply sit there, and it will look like the setting is broken.
Choosing the Controls
The Controls section is a long list of switches, one for each button in the player. Turning a switch off simply removes that button.
Most are self-explanatory — Control Bar, Large Play Button, Rewind, Play, Fast Forward, Progress Bar, Current Time, Duration, Volume Control, Playback Speed, Picture-in-Picture, Fullscreen, Embed and Share. Four are worth a note:
- Quality — only appears when a video actually has two versions. Fill in both the Video and HD Video fields on a video and viewers get a switcher; leave one empty and the button stays hidden however this is set.
- Captions — only appears when the video has subtitles attached, or when it is a stream carrying its own.
- Download — gives viewers a button to save the video file. It only applies to your own hosted files, and you should think twice before switching it on.
- Control Bar — turning this off hides the entire bar at once, whatever the individual switches say. Useful for a silent looping background video.
Keyboard Shortcuts
With Keyboard Controls switched on, viewers can drive the player without touching the mouse:
- Space — play or pause.
- Left and right arrows — skip backwards or forwards.
- Up and down arrows — volume up or down.
- 0 to 9 — jump to that point in the video, so 5 goes to the halfway mark.
- M — mute or unmute.
- F — enter or leave fullscreen.
This is a genuine accessibility win for viewers who cannot use a mouse comfortably, and it costs nothing to switch on.
Logo Watermark
You can place your own logo over the video, the way broadcasters do. It sits in a corner of the player, semi-transparent, and can be clicked.
The settings live on the Licensing tab of your Options:
- Display Logo — whether the watermark appears at all.
- Logo Image — your logo file. A PNG with a transparent background works best.
- Logo Position — which corner it sits in.
- Logo Alpha — how solid it is, from 0 to 100. Around 50 keeps it visible without competing with the video.
- Logo Click URL — where clicking the logo takes the viewer.
Logo Click URL needs a license key. Until a key is saved, clicking the watermark takes the viewer to our website whatever you enter here. See Adding Your License Key.
Keep the image small and simple. A logo that is too large or too solid quickly becomes an annoyance, particularly on a phone where the player is only a few centimetres across.
GDPR Privacy Consent
When a page shows a YouTube or Vimeo video, the viewer’s browser contacts those companies as soon as the page loads — before anyone has pressed play, and before they have agreed to anything. In Europe that is a problem.
Switch on GDPR Privacy Consent and All Video Share holds the video back. In its place the viewer sees a short message asking permission, and nothing is requested from YouTube or Vimeo until they agree.
Once someone agrees, their choice is remembered, so they are not asked again on every video they watch.
This only affects YouTube and Vimeo. Your own video files and streams are served from your own server, so there is nothing to consent to.
Video Advertisements
All Video Share can play an advert before a video starts, after it finishes, or both. There are two ways to supply them.
Your Own Advert Videos
The straightforward approach is to upload your own advert clips and let All Video Share rotate them. Find them under Components → All Video Share → Advertisements.
Click New and fill in:
- Title — for your own reference in the list.
- Type — whether this advert plays before the video, after it, or either.
- Video — the advert clip itself. Keep it short; anything over about thirty seconds and viewers leave.
- Link — where a viewer goes if they click the advert.
- Impressions and Clicks — counters that fill in as the advert is shown and clicked. You can reset them to zero at the start of a campaign.
- Status — only published adverts are shown, so unpublishing one takes it out of rotation without deleting it.
Then go to Options → Player → Advertisements and switch on Preroll Ads, Postroll Ads, or both.
The impressions and clicks columns on the Advertisements list then tell you how each advert is performing, which is enough to show a sponsor what they are getting.
Advert Networks
Premium feature. Connecting to an outside advert network is part of the premium version. See Premium Features.
Instead of supplying your own clips, you can let an advert network fill the slot and pay you for it. Networks provide an address — an ad tag — which you paste into the Ad Tag URL setting after changing Source Type to VAST.
All Video Share speaks the two standards that networks use, VAST and VMAP, so most services will work. The network decides which advert to show and reports back to you through its own dashboard.
Ad tags often expect details about the page and video to be passed along with the request. All Video Share can fill these in for you — the supported placeholders are listed on our Ad Tag Variables page.
Adverts on Some Pages Only
Advertisement settings appear on menu items, modules and shortcodes as well as in your Options, so you do not have to apply them everywhere.
A common arrangement is adverts on your public video pages, but none on the tutorials your paying customers watch. Set them on globally, then switch them off on the pages that should stay clean:
{avsplayer id=5 preroll=0 postroll=0}