Player and Chat

The Selfcast player contains everything you would find in your Channel Page!

This means that no matter where the player is embedded, viewers can join the live chat, get Cast or Channel info, see your profile and view archived and upcoming Casts on your Channel. It's pretty cool!

So here's a whistle stop tour of the player:

Info icon

This shows information about your current Cast in the form of the title, genre and when the Cast was added.

Channel name

This is the name of the Channel.

Live button

This button shows that a live broadcast is available and by clicking on it viewers can return to your live stream if they are currently watching another stream.

Viewer icon

This shows the number of viewers currently watching your Channel

Selfcast logo

If you click on the Selfcast logo it takes you to the Selfcast homepage.

Play and Pause button

Viewers can pause the Cast

Time indicator

This shows how long the current broadcast has been running

Progress bar

This indicates how much time is left when an archived Cast is playing.

Volume control

Viewers can adjust the volume of a Cast here

Full screen mode

This button expands the Selfcast player to full size.

Menu Buttons

This create a pop up of all the features packed into the player


Link button

This gives viewers the html code to link to either your Channel or current live Cast

More Info

This is where viewers can discover more about the Channel owner, the current Cast and your Channel.

Rate

viewers can rate a Cast by clicking on the stars

Share

Viewers can share a Channel by typing in their friends email addresses and clicking "send'.

Embed

Broadcasters and viewers can embed a Channel or the current live Cast anywhere on the web just by copying and pasting the relevant code.

More casts

Viewers can search all other Casts by the Channel owner on a mini-carousel including archived and upcoming Casts.

Chat

Anyone can join in the live chat on a Channel page; you don't need an account or need to be logged in…




Chat session

The chat conversation

Users

The names of who is involved in the current chat session

Message

This is where you type your message

Chat name

If you don't want to be anonymous you can get a chat name here!