Advanced Options for Videos

For all Video source types you have the following advanced options:

  • Play From/Play Until
    • In the advanced features, you can set the Play From/Play Until parameters. In other words, you can set the expiration date, which means that you can choose the exact date and time that Video will display in your playlist/layout, or you can set it to “Always” and “Forever,” and the Video will never expire.
  • Rotate Video
    • This option allows you to set the correct orientation for a Video. This is for the specific Video alone. This way, you can use Videos that were originally saved with the wrong orientation. 
    • So, if you have a video that is not displayed properly, you can use this setting to show it correctly.
    • Keep in mind that this setting only affects playback and does not rotate the video file itself.
  • Crop Video
    • This option allows you to set crop margins for a Video. This is for the specific Video alone. You can crop out by percentage for any side of the video.
    • For example, if you set the “Right” cropping to 10%, 10% of the video’s width will be cropped out during playback. The same goes for all edges.
    • Keep in mind that this setting only affects playback and does not crop the video file itself.
  • Enable Subtitles
    • First, you have to upload the video to your account, and also, the video must have embedded subtitles.
    • Embedded subtitles are stored inside the video file (or video container) as a stream – in the same way that video and audio streams are stored inside the video file. Not all video container formats can have embedded subtitles, and there are limitations to what subtitle formats are supported for each video container format.
    • After that you can toggle the “Enable Subtitles” button to display subtitles on your screen.

NOTE: YouTube Videos

Note that YouTube videos with subtitles cannot be used this way. You will need to download the Youtube video and subtitles on your computer, burn the subtitles with a relative program and upload them as Video files on your account.

  • Preparing Videos
    • Subtitles are supported only for videos that you upload. For this workaround to work, you will need to make sure that the video files are compatible.
    • You will need to repackage the video file and subtitle track as a single MKV file. Ensure that the subtitle track is the first track since the video above will play only the 1st subtitle track of the MKV file. You have two options for preparing the MKV file:
    • Easy but slow way: Use Handbreak, adding the video source file, and adding the subtitle track.
    • Hard but fast way: If your video is already in H.264 format, then you need to repackage it (not re-encode it).
      • Use FFmpeg like this:
        ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -i subtitle.srt -c copy output.mkv
      • After you prepare the video file, you will have a single MKV file, with a video track encoded in H.264 and a subtitle track.
  • Uploading Videos with Subtitles
    • Go to the “Videos” section and click the button to add a new video.
    • Select the video file.
    • Toggle the “Enable Subtitles” and click save.
    • Assign the Video to your player and push it for playback.
    • You should now be able to see subtitles for this video.
  • Disabling Subtitles
    • To disable the subtitles, toggle off the “Enable Subtitles” button, save and push once again.