AXIS chain play provides automatic playback to your users for sequential episode assets. Chain play is a great way to keep your users engaged, episode after episode, and reduces the need for your users to manually click and play each time they are ready to watch the next episode in a sequence.

How does it work?

Three criteria must be met for chain play to work:

1. Enable chain play in Presentation Manager
2. There is another episode in the current sequence
3. The current user has entitlement for the next episode

If you meet the three criteria, chain play continues to work from episode to episode.

If at any point, one of the above criteria is not met, for example, if a user is watching a movie, or there is no additional episode in the sequence, then an End-of-Play screen displays instead.

Chain play automatically stops if the end-user does not interact with the service for a specific length of time (configurable in Presentation Manager).

Configure chain play by navigating to Presentation Manager → Admin → Settings → System and selecting the Playback tab.

• ChainPlay Countdown: This represents the number of seconds before the next episode automatically plays. Setting the value to 0 here disables chain play in your apps. 
• ChainPlay Timeout: This represents the number of minutes of user inactivity before chain play pauses. Setting the value to 0 here disables the chain play timeout.
• ChainPlay Squeeze back: This represents the number of seconds before the end of playback when the current video reduces in scale, and other user options present within the video player. Setting the value to 0 here results in no squeeze-back.