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Advertising Support
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Subtitles & Captions Support
Thumbnail Preview Support
Player UI CSS Class Reference
Guides
Network API - HTTP Request/Response manipulation
How to migrate from another Player to the Bitmovin Player
How to enable Chromecast support
How to debug streams on Chromecast devices
How to send cookies along with requests in the Player SDKs
How to activate the Player and Analytics bundle in the Bitmovin Dashboard
Smart TVs configuration and best practices
How can I utilize the CDN fallback feature of the player?
How to enable recommendation UI
Improving Video SEO With Bitmovin player
Automatic CDN switching
How to Setup VR and 360° Video Playback
WebVTT based thumbnails
FAQs
Why can't I play DRM protected streams in Chrome?
Why can't the quality be manually changed in Safari?
How do I enable CORS on my web server / cloud storage?
What counts as an impression in the player?
How can I enable autoplay for a video?
Why does my VR / 360° not work on iOS devices?
How does offline DRM work on Bitmovin?
Does Bitmovin Player support Low Latency streaming?
Why does the Network API not work in Safari?
Why is my DRM stream only working on real, physical devices?
Why doesn’t autoplay work consistently on browsers?
How can I remove or change the watermark of the Bitmovin Player UI?
How can I remove the watermark from the Chromecast receiver?
Why is there sometimes no settings button in the control bar?
Why do I see an additional "CC1" entry in the subtitle menu in Safari/iOS?
How do I disable auto-hiding the control bar?
Does one DRM standard work across all devices?
Why are my WebVTT subtitle tracks not in sync with the video?
Does DRM work on iOS in Chrome/Firefox browsers?
Can I hide the "playback speed" menu of the player UI?
Why does the playback of 360°/VR content with DRM not work?
Why does `enterfullscreen` require a user gesture?
How can I change the labels for video/audio qualities or subtitles in the settings menu?
My Wowza stream does not play in Internet Explorer and Edge anymore using the HTML5 player
How can I allowlist a domain, IP, app ID, package name, or bundle identifier?
Why does the player show the error message “Your player is not allowed to play on the domain ...”?
Why are subtitles not shown when casting from Android/iOS to a custom receiver app?
Are there known limitations with the IMA SDK Integration?
Analytics
How to Set Up
Analytics Web Collector
Analytics Android Collector
Analytics iOS Collector
Analytics Roku Collector
Bitmovin Grafana Plugin
Bitmovin Analytics for Google Data Studio
Configuration Guide
Cookies in Bitmovin Analytics
How to set up Bitmovin Analytics with Google Tag Manager
Metrics and Dashboard
Getting started with the Analytics API
Getting started with the Api Explorer
How to recreate dashboard queries via the API
How to create an Alert in the Bitmovin Analytics dashboard
Using Top-Errors for debugging
Exporting your Data
S3 Role-Based Output for Analytics exports
GCS Service-Account Output for Analytics exports
Microsoft Azure Storage Output for Analytics exports
Supported Platforms and Devices
Native Collector API v3
iOS Collector Migration Guide from API v2 to v3
Android Collector Migration Guide from API v2 to v3
Articles
Analytics API Fields
Analytics dashboard metrics reference
Data Aging in Bitmovin Analytics
Segmenting your audience
FAQs
What counts as an Analytics impression?
How can values of customData fields be changed?
Which metrics related to the startup time are collected by Bitmovin Analytics?
Total Hours Watched Metric
Average View Time Metric
Can I change the timezone used for Bitmovin Analytics data?
How we measure concurrent viewers
How can I select which license shows up first when entering the Bitmovin Analytics dashboard?
What is the length limit for fields?
How often do you update your Kotlin Version?
Overriding bundled Bitmovin Player v8 Analytics collector
Can Bitmovin Analytics URLs be shared?
Are there any limitations on full data exports?
How does Analytics distinguish between VOD and live content?
What additional error data can be retrieved in Bitmovin Analytics
Do-Not-Track Cookie Handling in Analytics
What is an ANALYTICS_VIDEOSTART_TIMEOUT_REACHED error?
What is an ANALYTICS_BUFFERING_TIMEOUT_REACHED error?
How can I export my full data set from Bitmovin Analytics?
Custom Data setup on Bitmovin Player v3 for Android and iOS
What permissions do I need to set on my S3 buckets for Analytics Exports?
How can the userId be randomized for each session of the same user?
How to setup Bitmovin Analytics on SmartTVs
What is an ANALYTICS_QUALITY_CHANGE_THRESHOLD_EXCEEDED error?
Is there a sandbox environment to test Bitmovin Analytics?
Why do I see a maximum of 50 quality switches within an hour in a session?
What are Industry Insights?
Licenses in Bitmovin Analytics
How we measure buffering in Bitmovin Analytics
Is offline tracking of Analytics Events supported?
Release Notes
Analytics Collector - Web
Analytics Collector - Android
Analytics Collector - iOS
Analytics Collector - Roku
Player Web SDK - Browsers, Smart TVs, Set-Top Boxes & Game Consoles
Getting Started with the Web SDK
Getting started with the Web Player on PlayStation 5
Getting started with the Web Player on PlayStation 4
Getting started with the Web Player on LG webOS
Getting started with the Web Player on Samsung Tizen
UI
How to add Timeline Markers
How to add external subtitles to the Bitmovin Player
DRM
Streaming DRM protected content with Bitmovin Player Web SDK
How does FairPlay work?
Setup using multiple DRM solutions
Playing protected content with DRMtoday
How to play MPEG-CENC ClearKey content
Playing protected content with DRM.cloud
Playing protected content with Irdeto
Playing protected content using BuyDRM
Playing protected content with EZDRM
Playing protected content with Conax DRM
Advertising
Setting up Ads with the Web Player
Using Google DFP Video Ads
Changing the locale language for ads
How can I show a UI when ads are paused by the IMA SDK?
How can I access the IMA-SDK of HTML5 player
Integrations
Integrating Bitmovin Player with Teleport
Integrating Bitmovin Player with Streamroot
Examples
FAQs
How to change request timeout in the Bitmovin Web Player
Why is the full screen player UI different with iOS and other devices?
Release Notes (Web)
Player Android SDK
Getting Started
Offline Playback
Working with DRM providers
Logging in the Android Player SDK
Migrating from ExoPlayer to the Bitmovin Player
Examples
FAQs
How often do you update your Kotlin Version?
Can I use ExoPlayer and the Bitmovin Player Android SDK in the same project?
How can I use custom labels for audio or subtitle tracks?
How can I specify a custom Bitmovin Analytics Collector version?
Release Notes (Android)
Player iOS, tvOS SDK
Getting Started
Listening to Events
Offline Playback
Working with DRM providers
Logging in the iOS & tvOS Player SDK
Migrating from AVPlayer to the Bitmovin Player
Picture-in-Picture without using the Bitmovin Web UI
Watch content together with SharePlay
Examples
FAQs
How to switch sources when casting
How to let audio play when the iOS device is in Silent mode ?
Release Notes (iOS)
Player Roku SDK
Getting Started
Migrating from Native Video Node to the Bitmovin Player
Guides
Troubleshooting and Error Handling
Examples
Release Notes
Stream Lab
Introduction
Supported Platforms & Devices
Test cases
Regular Tests
Manual Tests
Guides
Adding a stream
FAQs
What is a test environment in Stream Lab
Player React Native SDK
Overview
Getting Started with the React Native SDK
Setting up Dependencies
Implementing a basic Player screen
Configuring your License
Feature guides
Advanced playback configuration
Accessing the native Player instance
Listening to events
DRM-protected playback
Adding external subtitle tracks
Adding external thumbnail tracks
Enabling Picture in Picture mode
Enabling fullscreen playback
Setting up Ads
Enabling Bitmovin Analytics
Customizing the HTML Player UI
Offline Playback
Contributing to the SDK
FAQs
Can the React Native SDK be used to target web browsers?
What is the underlying Bitmovin Player Android / iOS SDK version?
Introduction
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