Exporting from the Player Designer to the PDK
Get a head start on player development with the Player Designer
When customers first start using thePlatform’s services to develop players, many of them begin with our Player Designer. The Player Designer provides customers with:
- A quick way to get started without requiring any coding ability. All you need is to know is how to use a web browser and to have a general idea of how you want your player to look.
- A complete WYSIWYG player development environment that lets you see your player as you build it.
- The ability to customize the look and feel by setting the player’s color scheme and design skin, player details, layout, feed information, and much more.
- Plug-ins and other components to take advantage of our expansive partner network. Player Designer plug-ins include the ability to work with analytics, advertising, CDN, and many more partner companies and services.
- A player that can be published to multiple locations with a single URL.
When you reach the limits of the Player Designer, export it to the PDK
At some point the options available in the Player Designer may no longer fulfill all your needs. Instead of starting all over from scratch, we make it easy for you to take your existing Player Designer player, export it, and start customizing it with the PDK. To export a Player Designer player:
1. Click Players to see the list of players.
2. In the list of players, click Get Link for the player you want to export.
The live player appears in a new browser window or tab.
3. In the browser menu, click File, and then click either Save As (Internet Explorer) or Save Page As (Firefox).
The Save dialog box appears.
4. Choose a location and name for your player, make sure that the Save as Type box shows Web Page, HTML only, and then click Save.
Freely customize your PDK player
If you haven’t already, you’ll need to download and install the PDK. Once your player has been exported into the PDK, you have a lot more options available for customizing it, including the following:
- Remove or reposition player components.
- Add multiple copies of a single component to a canvas at one time.
- Add custom features using JavaScript
- Use Akamai and Limelight live streaming.
- Group components within a canvas with event scopes, which define limits for event handling between components.
- Configure the control rack in the player by updating the layout XML data file.
- Change the names of the Most Popular and All automatic categories.
- Add plug-ins that integrate third-party functionality not available in the Player Designer.
To learn more about the Player Designer and the PDK, check out the mpsPresent section of our web site.
For more information on how to download and install the PDK, check out our Player Development Kit documentation. You can find out the full details and required player modifications for exporting your Player Designer player into a PDK player in the article entitled Exporting a player from the Player Designer to the Player Development Kit.
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