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The empty space is used for menu options which become available as you add additional sources to the presentation, eg translated subtitles, alternative video streams and slide sources.

The display layer for AutoView has been separated out into an XSL template which generates an HTML/Javascript page which contains the presentation config in a format AutoView delivery platform can understand

XML config + XSL style sheet > Processed by PHP > read by JavaScript > Page is Rendered.

This may seem complex, but the idea is to keep the components of the AutoView system as separate as possible, so that they can be re-used in other contexts. However this does make what you're trying to do a little more complicated than normal.

In order to add something to the page, you need to modify the core printFullHTML() method in vresource/autoview.js. You would probably want to add an extra div with your information in to the videoColumn.

If you need to 'pass through' extra information from Moodle for display, then edit autoview.php and add an extra element to the $parameters array, eg

$parameters['myinfo'] = "Something useful....";

Then open up templates/autoview.xsl add the following line in the block at the top :

<xsl:param name="myinfo"/>

The lower down, look for the initLang(); method call and add something like this above it :

var myinfo="<xsl:value-of select="$myinfo" />";

(Note the convention here is to use method calls, rather than setting a variable, however, this approach is the simplest)

That should now give you a variable myinfo which can be used inside the autoview.js/printFullHTML() method, or elsewhere in autoview.js as required.