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# Players

# What is a player?

The player is the the component that you will share with the viewers. Usually referred as "Videoflow Player". The player usually contains an [Input](https://docs.videoflow.io/docs/inputs) that is overlayed with an [Engagement](https://docs.videoflow.io/docs/engagements). But in some cases you might want to have one without the other.

Consider the following user cases:

## Engaging experience

In this case you most likely would want to have an [Input](https://docs.videoflow.io/docs/inputs) overlayed by an [Engagement](https://docs.videoflow.io/docs/engagements) that viewer can interact with. The player will be shared on social media, embedded in websites as a iFrame or be a part of a [Channel](https://docs.videoflow.io/docs/channels)

## Part of an OTT Channel

In this case you might not need an [Engagements](https://docs.videoflow.io/docs/engagements) added to the player and just provide the targeted video content to viewers as is.

## Part of another graphics workflow

You might want to use the Videoflow [Engagement](https://docs.videoflow.io/docs/engagements) as a graphics source in other systems. For example you can overlay your OBS stream with an [Engagement](https://docs.videoflow.io/docs/engagements) and control it from Videoflow. In this case, you would add only the [Engagements](https://docs.videoflow.io/docs/engagements) to the player but not provide a video source. This will result in a player that has a transparent background, allowing you to composite the player on top of other content in a third party application such as OBS. [Learn more about working with OBS.](https://docs.videoflow.io/docs/videoflow-player-with-obs)