In BlendVison, we provide three methods to deliver your event to your audience: Showroom, iframe Player, and Player SDK.
Each of these publishing methods has its own advantages and unique support features, so you may choose the delivery method that best suits your needs.
This article will introduce and detail instructions on each of these publishing methods in the following chapters:
Showroom
Showroom is an easy way to deliver content as a customized website. It provides a highly customizable theme and is controllable for viewer access.
You can quickly set up your showroom design, set up a customized player style, and then simply share the URL with your audience.
Publishing steps
To publish your live event via the showroom:
1. Set up your showroom settings and player settings while creating/editing a live event. You can refer to the following articles for more details:
- Set up your Showroom for customizing your showroom UI (Login page/Main page)
- Set up your Player for selecting the player template of a live event
- Customize Player Template for creating/editing the selected player template
2. Find your Showroom URL via Livestream List -> Publish tool -> Showroom
- Access the “Livestream List” by clicking on “Live” in the left sidebar.
- Click the publishing tool icon on located on the right side of your live event in the Livestream List
- Select “Showroom” and copy the URL
- For events that have their visibility option set to “Token”:
You will need to generate and share access codes (tokens) to your audience for them to access the showroom.
You can generate tokens here directly. For other methods on how to generate access codes, please refer to Set up Security Features.
3. Share the showroom URL with your audience.
iframe player
BlendVison provides an auto-generated iframe player code for you to embed a customized iframe player onto your website with the content protection settings you have selected.
Note: Integration with BlendVision API is required when utilizing the iframe player, please refer to the related articles: Integrate Existing Membership Systems for Private Content and Set up Security Features for details on features regarding token access.
Publishing steps
To publish your live event via the iframe player:
1. Set up your player settings while creating/editing a live event. You can refer to the following articles for more details:
- Set up your Player for selecting the player template of a live event
- Customize Player Template for creating/editing the selected player template
2. Find your iframe embed code via Livestream List -> Publish tool -> iframe
- Access the “Livestream List” by clicking on “Live” in the left sidebar.
- Click the publishing tool icon on located on the right side of your live event in the Livestream List
- Select “iframe” and copy the iframe embed code.
3. Embed the iframe code onto your website or platform.
- For events that have their visibility option set as “Token”:
You will need to generate an access token and integrate it into the embed iframe code. Please refer to our developer guide: Quickstart: Playback a Private BlendVision One Stream
Player SDK (Web / iOS / Android)
If you need further customization options or deeper integration into your application or service, you may utilize the BlendVision Player SDK for Web/iOS/Android.
Please refer to our developer guide for more details on API integration.
- Player templates and most security features (such as visibility, domain control, etc) on the BlendVision web console only apply to the showroom and embed iframe Player. You need to develop the relevant functions within your system and integrate them with the Player SDK and APIs. Refer to Integrate Existing Membership Systems for Private Content and Set up Security Features for more details.