MediaPlayer:Skins

Getting Started

The media player allows different skins to be used at time of embed. Customizing these skins is currently not supported via an open framework. That being said, you may be able to do exactly as you want by utilizing our bare skin and styling the media player using HTML overlays. If the bare skin does not meet your satisfaction and you wish to create a custom skin, please contact support@metrixstream.com.

All of the skins below can be selected by passing their name to the skin paramater to these macros.

Skins can be created for both window and fullscreen display modes.

mp

This is the default skin used if not changed via the skin parameter. If the media player is viewing a live event, then there will be a chat overlay near the bottom of the skin. The skin uses rounded corners, so you need to set the WMODE parameter to transparent or choose the same player background color as the HTML page background color.

chat

This is similar to the default skin, except the chat widget is in a 2nd column to the right of the media player. The skin uses rounded corners, so you need to set the WMODE parameter to transparent or choose the same player background color as the HTML page background color.

minimal

This is the most popular of the available skins. The media fills up the entire skin and there is a semi-transparent overlay for the controls at the bottom of the skin. Because the media is rectangular and the media takes up the entire skin, you do not need to use the transparent value for the WMODE parameter.

bare

The name says it all. The window display mode only uses the media for the skin. There are no controls. This skin is intended to be decorated by HTML. If you wish to overlay HTML controls onto this skin, then you must set the WMODE parameter to opaque. The fullscreen display mode uses the minimal skin.