Brightcove Developer Blog

Mobile Video: Delivering Brightcove Video through Palm's WebOS

BC-Grant — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:27:08 GMT

Another mobile video application: how to bring Brightcove video to the Palm Pre and other devices that run on Palm's WebOS.

Custom Player: Compact Minimizing List Player

BC-Grant — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:55:59 GMT

Custom player template for the Compact Minimizing List player, created with BEML and a custom SWF module.

Plex is back

BC-Grant — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:14:15 GMT

We've updated our previous article about integrating Brightcove with Plex

Encoding and delivering videos on the iPhone

BC-Grant — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:31:18 GMT

A new article in the Developer Center about how to encode and deliver your videos for the iPhone.

Brightcove Video on Facebook

BC-Grant — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:21:44 GMT

Three ways to integrate Brightcove video with Facebook, extending the reach of your videos to your viewers' social networks.

Join beta program on new Custom Player Component and BEML enhancements

BC-Bob — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:10:01 GMT

Hello Brightcove Developers!

We are looking for volunteers to join a new beta program that allows one to natively integrate player component configuration via BEML into the Publishing module's player settings edit dialogs. At the moment we're calling this "Design-time BEML" and we're looking for feedback on usefulness, bugs and general feedback.

Design-time BEML is markup that can be used to define the behavior of Brightcove's applications in a similar way to how Runtime BEML defines layout and behavior of Brightcove players. By using Design-time BEML, you can create customized UIs that surface controls for their required data, which can help streamline workflows and add additional data views we do not provide out of the box.

This initial implementation of Design-time BEML in the Publishing module is intended as an exploration of what something like BEML can provide within the context of our management applications. It is focused on allowing configurability of the player settings dialog when editing a player instance. The use case addressed is for a customer that has a custom module included with their player that needs customized parameters. Using Design-time BEML, a control for setting these parameters can be surfaced within the player settings.

To elaborate more on this case, we can look at an example implementation of a Google Analytics module SWF. This SWF could be authored to require an account ID. If a publisher creates a template that includes this SWF as a module, they may wish to create multiple instances of the template. Without Design-time BEML, they would be required to append the account ID in the path to the SWF.

In that case, every player instance would have the same account. If the publisher wanted different accounts for different players, they would be forced to create different templates. However, with Design-time BEML, a template could be authored in such a way as to surface a text field in the player settings for each instance. The publisher could then enter the account ID for each player and this value would be passed to the Google Analytics SWF once it was loaded into the player.

If you are interested in participating in this beta program please email pmanagement_beta@brightcove.com. Please use the subject "DTBEML BETA" and include your contact details and Brightcove Account Id. Your account id is listed under the "Profile" section of the Brightcove Studio. We will follow-up with an email that includes documentation on Design-time BEML.

Thank you!

Quantcast Analytics Plug-In

BC-Grant — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:53:44 GMT

We've developed a web analytics plug-in that makes it simple for your players to fire events to Quantcast.

Creating an iTunes feed with PHP and the Media API

BC-Grant — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:55:09 GMT

A sample PHP script that creates an iTunes feed, using the Brightcove Media API and a few custom video metadata fields.

Post to MySpace: A Custom BEML Component

BC-Grant — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:58:03 GMT

We have a new article by Ashley Streb that shows you how to create a custom player component that adds a "Post to MySpace" button to a Brightcove player.

Sample: Uploading Videos with the Echove PHP SDK

BC-Grant — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:18:11 GMT

A sample that shows you how to upload videos using a simple form, the Brightcove Media API, and Echove, an open-source PHP SDK.

Sample Code: Persistent Audio Volume Settings

BC-Grant — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:13:46 GMT

A custom SWF component that uses a Flash shared object to store a viewer's preferred volume settings.

New Article: Making a Video Link to the Current Page

BC-Grant — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:23:59 GMT

By default, the "Get Link" button gives a link to the player, using a Brightcove server URL. This article describes how to get a link to the page that contains the player instead.

New Article: Separate Content and Style with the Player APIs

BC-Grant — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:46:21 GMT

Using the Brightcove Player API to to dynamically set player styles with custom Brightcove CSS strings.

Sample: Updating Videos with the Echove PHP SDK

BC-Grant — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:34:24 GMT

A code sample that uses Echove, the PHP SDK for the Brightcove Media APIs, to add a new tag to each of the videos in your media library.

Sample Code: Hit Counter Widget

BC-Grant — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:39:08 GMT

Sample code and discussion for a custom component and custom player template that shows the number of times the currently-playing video has been viewed.

New Sample - Flex app for uploading with the Media API

BC-Grant — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:25:33 GMT

A new sample for the Developer Center that uses a Flex application to upload videos to Brightcove, using the Media API.

Using getStage to Access Player Configuration Parameters

BC-Grant — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:48:06 GMT

How you can use the Player API getStage() method to retrieve a player's configuration parameters and custom values.

Delivering Ads without an Ad Server

BC-Grant — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:48:59 GMT

A new article in the Developer Center describes how to deliver ads to Brightcove players without using an ad server.

Plex Integration

BC-Grant — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:37:54 GMT

A new article in the Developer Center shows you how to use the Media API to integrate Brightcove with Plex, an open-source media center application for OS X.

JavaScript Player API example

BC-Grant — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:39:14 GMT

A sample that shows how to use the JavaScript Player API to create and remove a player in a page dynamically.