Watching a Video

Once you start watching a video, the screen appears either with or without the controls: when you roll over the video screen, the controls automatically appear; when you move your cursor away, the controls disappear.

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Watching a video
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Watching a video with controls

The following graphic shows all the controls. If you click the down menu arrow at the bottom of the screen, additional options appear. The table following the graphic provides a brief description of each of the controls in the video window.

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Minimize uvLayer while watching a video Click the diagonal minimize arrow.
Your video continues to play over whatever application you’re running. With this option, you can continue to listen to and watch video while working in other applications. You can move this video window, like the one in uvLayer, to wherever you want to on your screen.
Pause the video Click the Pause pause button.
Move to different parts of the video Drag the slider bar slider left and right to move forward and backward in the movie.
Adjust the volume Click the volume volume button and drag the slider up and down.
View your playlist Click the down menu arrow at the bottom right of the video window. The Playlist tab is selected by default.
If you are watching as a playlist, the other videos are listed. If not, no other videos are listed here.
Add to your playlist Drop videos from your canvas directly on top of the playing video or in the Playlist tab below the video.
Once you have more than one video, you can re-arrange the order in which they'll play by dragging the videos to the desired order.
Move to another track in your playlist Click the next next video or back previous video buttons on either side of the play button.
Find related videos Click the down menu arrow at the bottom right of the video window and select the Related videos tab. Move your mouse left and right over the videos to scan all the related videos.
View comments Click the down menu arrow at the bottom right of the video window and select the Comments tab.
Post a comment Click the down menu arrow at the bottom right of the video window and select the Comments tab.
Next to the right-angle bracket (>), enter a comment and press [Enter].
View activity Click the down menu arrow at the bottom right of the video window and select the Activity tab. This feature is especially useful when you're watching a video in minimized mode.
Close the video window Click the Close close button.

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