Hi smartbuilder team,
Is it possible to remember (store in variable or control start settings) the volume of a video and if captions are on/off/language.

First the audio. We have multiple vimeo object in our lesson. Let's say you want to reduce the volume to 50%, it would be nice if the other videos then automatically also start at 50% volume. I didn't think this would be possible but to my surprise, when you have multiple vimeo embeds on a normal webpage, it does remember the audio level of the last video you've touched, so maybe this is also possible to get in smartbuilder

I've seen there is a 'lesson volume' function, but then there always needs to be a slider visible as I don't think it can be controlled by the volume function in the video controls which nicely hides when you don't move the cursor for a few sec.

Second is kinda the same but then with captions to be on or off. This is possible with the smartbuilder video object as 'captions' is an controllable attribute, and (again to my surpise) the vimeo object does remember if it's on of off if you have multiple vimeo videos on one slide. But if you go to another slide, it resets again

Lastly (I didn't test this) but if you use the normal video player and have multiple caption langauges (as shown here: https://share.smartbuilder.com/public/support/multilanguage-vtt-multiple-closed-caption-tracks.mp4) and pick for example French as a captions, does smartbuilder understand that for the next video caption on the next slide it should be french again, or do you have to select that language again?

As always, thanks for the help

Hi Marcel,
Good question! We'll have to see if the Vimeo API supports sending and receiving this info - Vimeo would have to send back the volume/captions/language to SmartBuilder so that it can be stored, and then we'd have to send it back out. Or if that's just a feature of the cookies when Vimeo handles multiple videos in the same browser instance.

We'll get back to you when we have more info.

Hi Smartbuilder team,

While on the subject of improving the video player(s), can the fullscreen function of the video component react the same way as the fullscreen action block. If you now click on the video component full screen in the player control bar, it will hide all the layers above it, while the normal fullscreen action block doesn't do this. And it is confusing to have 2 fullscreen buttons on screen.

I do understand this is not possible with the vimeo player, but with that I'm able to disable the fullscreen in the player control bar in the vimeo account settings. Maybe add the possibility to customise the player control bar of the normal video player too (controls, colors, opacity). But that's just an idea and not neccessairy right now.

In the future it would be cool if there would be a function to use the mouse movement as input. Then it becomes possible to hide the fullscreen button or other stuff when a video is playing and the mouse isn't moving for 2 seconds (like with youtube and vimeo). Besides that it can open possibilities like dynamic mouse cursors or viewers drawing on screen. But no need yet to put this on the list, as it is just a random brainfart .