Editing Clipstream Applet Parameters

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How your video plays back is governed by the default and optional parameters in the Clipstream™ Video Applet. Learn how to edit basic parameters and enter in new ones from our dozens of options.

What is an applet?
An applet is a set of Java instructions that can run programs from a web page. Clipstream™ Video is one of these.

Requirements

A Clipstream™ Video applet in an HTML page.
An encoded Clipstream™ Video clip (.vcs) linked to from that applet.
Notepad or other text editor.

What is a parameter?

A parameter is a line of code in the Clipstream™ Video applet that contains an instruction on how to play the encoded video clip.

Open up the Clipstream™ Video applet as HTML

Open up an .html page that contains an embedded Clipstream™ Video applet.
View the source by right-clicking on a blank spot on the page and choosing View Source.

In Notepad or your default text editor your page will open up as .html.
Find the Clipstream™ Video applet. It looks like this:

Click to see it.

Edit a parameter

Learn how to edit a parameter by follow these steps to make the applet play its video automatically.

In Notepad find the line that reads:

<param name="AutoPlay" value="False">

This parameter is always included in the default .html generated by the Encoder. It tells the Clipstream™ Video applet to play automatically when the page is loaded but because the value is set to "False", it won't.
To make the applet AutoPlay, change "False" to "True".

It should now look like this:

<param name="AutoPlay" value="True">
Save the page as the same name as the .html.
Reload the .html page in your Browser.

The video will play automatically.

Insert a new parameter into the code

Most of the available parameters are not generated by the Encoder and must be inserted after. Follow these steps to insert a new parameter into the applet.

View the source of the same page.
Inside the applet code, click at a point after the angle bracket ( > ) of the last parameter you edited, the AutoPlay parameter.
Press Enter to create space for a new line.
Type the following:

<param name="MuteAudio" value="true">
Save the page and reload it in your browser.

When you play the video there will be no sound.

More parameters

There are dozens of parameters that can be edited or added into the Clipstream™ Video applet. Go to our Applet Parameters page for descriptions of each.