Frequently Asked Questions

That is common and worth catching before launch rather than after. The test is not whether it matches your brand guidelines in daylight but whether somebody can read a button on a television at eleven at night.

Yes, for the cases the controls do not reach. Most services never need it, and the ones that do usually need it for something specific rather than for wholesale changes, so it exists as a route rather than as the main path.

A template is the structure and layout, this is the brand values applied within it. You would change a template rarely and colours whenever your branding moves, which is why they are deliberately separate.

Vodlix thumbnail preview shows a small scene image as a viewer moves the cursor or scrubber along the progress bar, so they can find the right moment at a glance. It is also known as trick play.

Vodlix generates preview thumbnails dynamically from the video's key frames during transcoding, so each image is sharp and accurately represents the scene at that timestamp.

No. Vodlix preview thumbnails are optimised to load instantly as the viewer scrubs, with no delay between moving the cursor and seeing the frame.

It lets viewers jump to the scene they want in one movement, rewatch a moment without hunting for it and skip ahead confidently, instead of guessing from a timestamp.

Yes. Thumbnail preview and trick play thumbnails describe the same Vodlix capability: scene previews shown along the progress bar as a viewer seeks.

Vodlix time shift lets viewers pause a live channel, move backwards from the live edge to catch a missed start and then return to live at any time, all within the same player.

Viewers have paused everything for twenty years. A live channel without pause and rewind feels broken rather than live, and time shift is the clearest sign that a linear service is modern.

Yes. A Vodlix viewer who has rewound or paused can return to the live edge with a single control whenever they choose, so they never lose the shared live experience.

Vodlix time shift moves within the current live buffer of a channel being watched. Vodlix nDVR records programmes so viewers can watch them later from the programme guide.

Yes. Pause and rewind on live channels are now the baseline test of whether linear TV feels current, and Vodlix time shift meets it on every enabled channel.

Yes, and the controls are built for each input rather than shared. Pausing with a remote and scrubbing with a thumb are different interactions, even though what happens to the stream underneath is identical.

It can, and it is worth deciding deliberately rather than discovering later. Advertising in live streams is configured separately from your catalogue, so how ads behave for a viewer who is behind the live edge is a decision you make rather than an accident.

No. Where it is available on a channel it is simply there in the player controls, which is the point. A feature people have to discover or switch on is a feature most of your audience will never use.

Vodlix TMDB integration connects your platform to The Movie Database so you can fetch cast, crew, production details, artwork, trailers and synopses into your catalogue automatically.

Vodlix pulls cast and crew, production year, synopsis, genres, posters and backdrops, trailers and other title details from TMDB, and creates artist records for cast members.

No. With Vodlix TMDB integration you search for a title, confirm the match and the metadata, artwork and cast records populate automatically, with no manual typing.

Yes. Vodlix syncs vital information from TMDB automatically, so metadata and artwork stay up to date without someone updating each title by hand.