Advanced Options (Web)

The Advanced options section provides additional player settings to enhance usability, playback performance, and SEO. These options allow for greater customization and control over how content is delivered and experienced.

Playback speed menu and Picture in Picture icon

Enable and define advanced player options

Follow these steps to customize the advanced behaviors of a player:

In the Advanced options section, click the toggle to ON to enable any of the advanced features.
Configure media preloading.
Select the Default bandwidth estimate (optional).
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This setting allows you to define an estimate of your viewer's connection type. When defined, the player may attempt to start playback at a higher quality.

Advanced Features

The Advanced features section allows you to enable advanced player behaviors.

The following table explains each option.

Features	Description
Picture in picture	Enables picture-in-picture mode, allowing video playback to continue in a floating window while users interact with other content
Pause if offscreen	Pauses playback when the player is no longer visible and resumes when it reappears Playback resumes when the player becomes viewable again. If the player is no longer viewable after an ad break begins, the ad break will continue to play to completion before pausing.
Google Analytics	Enables integration with Google Analytics to track playback events and collect insights Follow the steps below to enable and integrate with Google Analytics: Click the toggle to ON to enable tracking playback events using Google Analytics. Set up Google Analytics. If you are a developer, you can also send events with Google Analytics to your analytics platform.
Google Search Optimized	Enables optimizations for improved visibility in Google Search
Casting	Allows viewers to stream video to Chromecast (Chrome) or AirPlay (Safari)
Playback speed	Displays a menu for adjusting playback speed, with options including 0.5x, 1x, 1.25x, 1.5x, and 2x For mobile web, adjusting the playback rate is not currently supported on Android devices with HLS streams.

Media Preloading

Media preloading allows you to configure the video preloading setting. When a portion of a video is preloaded, the time is reduced between a viewer clicking the play button and the beginning of playback.

Options	Description
Quick start (default)	Configures a single player to begin loading the video metadata and up to one segment of the video If additional players are embedded on the same page, each player will preload content when more than 50% of the player is viewable.
None	Configures the player to begin loading media only after the viewer clicks the play button The viewer may experience a delayed start to video playback. No additional bandwidth is used to load media.
High-quality	Configures a single player to begin loading up to the first 30 seconds of the video content If additional players are embedded on the same page, each player will preload content when more than 50% of the player is viewable.