Hide Control Bar Automatically
The control bar of the web player generated by PlayerDIY Web Player in default will always show during the video playing. But it's available to configure a flash video player whose control bar will hide automatically during video playing.
The demo whose control bar will hide automatically after 2 seconds of the video playing:
There are two ways are available to implement the above demo: 1. Customzing with PlayerDIY Web Player; 2. Inserting a line of flashvars code into the embed code of an existed player.
- PlayerDIY Web Player
- Flashvars Code
With PlayerDIY Web Player, all need to do is checking the “Player auto hide” option on the following interface, when customize the player. And set 2 as the value of the "Hide delay" option.
To implement the above demo with flashvars code, the embed code would be like below:
<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
<div id="flashcontent" align="center"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var so = new SWFObject('mwplayer.swf','player','500','450','9');
so.addParam('wmode','opaque');
so.addParam('quality','high');
so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');
so.addParam('flashvars','playerOpts=playerAutoHide*true*b||hideDelay*2000*i');
so.write("flashcontent");
</script>
The line of the red code is the flashvars code for getting the functionality. Get more information about flashvars code.
- Set control-bar color to match website
- Set background color of player
- Set the position of control bar
- Customize Preloader button
- Hide control bar automatically
- Remove the "Embed & URL" Area
- Hide mouse automatically
- Hide playing time
- Hide playlist icon
- Hide previous and next icons
- Hide playing process bar
- Customize right-click menu
