Waiting Room - Storm JavaScript Player

One of the interesting features of Storm Player is the ability to set up a so-called "waiting room", which will count down to the designated start of a video broadcast. For this purpose, appropriately configured parameters should be provided in the StormPlayer configuration object. Here is a simple example:

Preview

Complete Code Example

                                
const playerConfig = {
    containerID: "container",
    width: "100%",
    aspectRatio: "16:9",
    /*
    * The waitingRoom object is optional and can be added to configure
    * a pre-stream waiting screen with a poster and scheduled start time.
    */
    waitingRoom: {
        createTime: "0000-00-00 00:00:00",
        startTime: "0000-00-00 00:00:00",
        timeZone: "UTC",
        posterURL: "https://mydomain.com/pictures/poster.png",
    }
};
                            

Explanation and Description of Individual Fields

What you should pay attention to:

1. The dates provided here are dependent on the time zone of the end user. When displaying a subpage and embedding the player code, this should be taken into account.
2. When the "waiting room" timer ends, the player will automatically switch to "live" mode. If the stream is not active - a message about the lack of a stream will appear. We recommend starting the actual broadcast earlier to avoid this effect - you can put an information card at the encoder level, indicating that the stream will start soon.
3. It is possible to set your own colors for the "waiting room", more information can be found in Interface & Styling section.