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None of this needs a setup screen. It ships in the player and works the moment a viewer presses a key, locks their phone, or right-clicks the video.

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Hotkeys

The player listens for keyboard shortcuts the moment it has focus. A small pill appears over the video for 800 milliseconds on every press, so a viewer who stumbles onto a shortcut learns what it did.
The seek shortcuts (arrows, J/L, number keys, Home, End) only work when at least one seek-related control is turned on, the progress bar, or the rewind/forward buttons, on Video → Customize → Style. With all three off, the video plays start to end and none of these keys move the playhead. Play/pause, mute, fullscreen, captions and volume are unaffected, they work regardless.
Hotkeys are never intercepted while a viewer is typing into a form field, and a held Ctrl, Cmd or Alt is always left alone so browser and OS shortcuts still work.
There is no dashboard toggle for this. Hotkeys are on for every video, on every plan.

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Picture-in-picture, AirPlay, and Chromecast

Pops the video into a floating window that stays on top of other tabs and apps, on every browser that supports it.Turn on PiP button under Video → Customize → Style. Once it is on, a viewer can start PiP from the control bar button or from the settings (gear) menu. The button only renders when the browser reports PiP support, so nothing broken shows up on a browser that cannot do it.

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Lock-screen media controls

When a viewer locks their phone, or looks at their laptop’s media widget, the player is wired into the browser’s Media Session API. Play, pause, seek back, seek forward and seek-to-position all work from the lock screen or the media widget directly, with the phone still locked and the tab still in the background. The title shown is your page’s document.title. There is no separate field to set a different title for the lock screen. Artwork is the video’s poster image, when the browser has one to show.
This is on for every video. There is no option to turn it off.
Add ?tp_t=90 to a video’s URL and playback starts at 90 seconds instead of from zero. The value is a plain number of seconds, not a clock string.
Deep-link seek needs the same seek control gate as the hotkeys above (progress bar or rewind/forward buttons on), and it reads playback_options.allow_deep_link_seek, which defaults to on. Set it to false on the Playback tab to stop tp_t from working on a specific video, for instance one where you never want a viewer skipping ahead of the pitch.

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Smart pause and loop

Video → Customize → Playback.
Pauses the video the instant the viewer switches tabs or apps, and resumes it when they come back, so nobody returns to a video that kept talking to an empty room.Key: playback_options.smart_pause, boolean.It only pauses a video the viewer already started, and only while they are not in fullscreen. It will not un-pause a video the viewer paused on purpose before switching tabs, and it never force-starts a video the viewer had not pressed play on, a click-to-play thumbnail that was still sitting there, for instance.
Turn on Loop and the video replays automatically when it ends, from a point you choose rather than from zero. Useful for a background reel or a demo loop where the first few seconds are a slow fade-in you do not want to repeat.Keys: playback_options.loop (boolean) and playback_options.loop_start_time, required once loop is on. Give it either a plain number of seconds or a clock string (MM:SS or HH:MM:SS), both are accepted.

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Viewer preference persistence

The player remembers how a viewer likes to watch: volume, mute state, playback speed, and whether captions are on and in which language. It is stored in the browser’s localStorage, keyed to your workspace, not to the individual video.
This persists across every video in your workspace, not only the one the viewer is currently on. A viewer who turns captions on, or mutes, or bumps the speed to 1.5x on one video gets the same treatment the next time they land on any other video from the same workspace, in the same browser.
It is on by default. Two things turn it off:
  • Setting style_options.persist_viewer_prefs to false on a video.
  • A video configured for muted autoplay without auto-unmute (autoplay_options.autoplay on, autoplay_options.auto_unmute off). TrackPlay assumes that forced mute is a deliberate choice and will not let a stored preference from a different video override it.

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The right-click context menu

Right-clicking the player opens a small menu instead of the browser’s default one.
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Copy URL at this time

Copies the current page URL with ?tp_t=<seconds> appended, the same deep-link parameter described above. Only appears when Share button is on. Key: style_options.share_button.
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A TrackPlay link

Always present, on every plan, with no setting to remove it. The wording rotates between a few variants (“Powered by TrackPlay.io”, “Built with TrackPlay”, “Get this player”) fetched from TrackPlay’s own service and cached in the browser for a few hours, so the copy can change or be tested without recompiling every video. Each video shows one variant consistently rather than a different one on every right-click.
There is no option, on any plan, to remove the TrackPlay link from this menu. If your workspace needs a fully unbranded right-click menu, that is a conversation with your account team, not a setting on this page.