What are UIVars and Why should you care…
The Kaltura Players are built on a framework of an XML based flexible and customizable UI.
If you just read the above line and remained wondering, worry not! you don’t even have to be a developer to be able to modify player features by yourself, add plugins, modify skins or behaviors. Using the Player Studio, one can create as many Player instances that feature different styles, options and behaviors.
To simplify the management of many of the player features, Kaltura has implemented the “UIVars” to override and configure player features.
Kaltura UIVars are an incredibly powerful feature of the Kaltura Players which allows publishers to pre-set or override the value of any FlasVar (object level parameters), show, hide and disable existing UI element, add new plugins and UI elements to an existing player and modify attributes of all the player elements.
FlashVars are configuration variables that are set to the Kaltura Player in the HTML embed code (works for “regular” static embed, server-generated embed or JavaScript-generated embed). A list of all the Kaltura Player FlashVars.
This post will take the reader through utilizing the Kaltura Players UIVars functionality and share a collection of the most common use cases that Kaltura’s customers came across with and how these can be easily achieved through the use of UIVars.
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