Brightcove Developer Blog

Re: Custom Player: Compact Minimizing List Player

BC-Grant — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:49:00 GMT

You make a good point, Tyler. This would be more useful if we included the compiled SWF. I've modified the zip file linked in the article to include the SWF. You should be able to host the SWF on your server and use it as is, although you may also have to modify the buttonX and buttonY positions of the button, depending on your player size. You also may also need to add the location of the SWF to your crossdomain.xml file.

Re: Custom Player: Compact Minimizing List Player

tylerfuel — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:24:33 GMT

This is great. Is there a way to use this player template without any development? I've taken the BEML from the link provided in this post, created a new template, and the player works with the exception of the custom module button (show/hide playlist). I would really like to avoid paying a developer to perform the seemingly simple work to create the proper swf file to utilize this player.

Thanks.

Tyler

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.

Re: Plex Integration

BC-Grant — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:15:43 GMT

We've posted an updated version of the Plex integration article here: http://developer.brightcove.com/en/articles/integrating-plex

Plex is back

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

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

Re: Brightcove Video on Facebook

BC-ChrisL — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:25:29 GMT

Glad to see this article being used! My apologies for the delay in my response, I will answer both questions here:

Nathan- Yes, it is definitely possible to assign the metadata to the Facebook button in a more dynamic way. You can do this using the Brightcove Media API. Essentially you would look at the ID of the current playing video through the Player API and make a request for the accompanying metadata and write it directly in the Facebook button code. Make sense?

Tyler- I tried your demo at http://rhino.entertainment.googlepages.com/fb_newsfeed_PYSJ_test.html and am not seeing the butterfly image -- are you still having this issue?

Thanks, Chris

Re: Brightcove Video on Facebook

TylerJensen — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:10:20 GMT

I'm very excited about this - when I tested it here (http://rhino.entertainment.googlepages.com/fb_newsfeed_PYSJ_test.html), it worked.

Now I'm having an issue with the butterfly image hosted in the demo posted by Chris Little... it always loads, despite me changing img_src URL. Here's the problem code that's still pulling the butterfly image:

<div style="display:none">

</div>



<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://admin.brightcove.com/js/BrightcoveExperiences.js"></script>

<object id="myExperience47044552001" class="BrightcoveExperience">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" />
<param name="width" value="400" />
<param name="height" value="278" />
<param name="playerID" value="47033697001" />
<param name="publisherID" value="353529291"/>
<param name="isVid" value="true" />

<param name="@videoPlayer" value="47044552001" />
</object>


<div align="center">
      
        <script>function fbs_click() {u=location.href;t=document.title;window.open('http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(u)+'&t='+encodeURIComponent(t),'sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436');return false;}</script>
        <style>
html .fb_share_link { padding:2px 0 0 20px; height:16px; background:url(http://b.static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/share/facebook_share_icon.gif?8:26981) no-repeat top left; }
</style>
        <a href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u= http://files.brightcove.com/dev/fb_newsfeed.html" target="_blank" class="fb_share_link style1" onClick="return fbs_click()"> Share on Facebook</a>  </div>
      
      <meta name="medium" content="video" />
      <link rel="image_src" href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51hmGQ1cn9L._SS500_.jpg" />
      <link rel="video_src" href="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/47033697001?isVid=1&isUI=1&publisherID=353529291&playerID=47033697001&domain=embed&videoId=47044552001" />
      <meta name="video_height" content="336" />
      <meta name="video_width" content="385" />
      <meta name="video_type" content="application/x-shockwave-flash" />
      
      

</td>

</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Re: Brightcove Video on Facebook

Nathan — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:14:43 GMT

Is it possible to dynamically assign the meta data and Facebook button with the BEML templates so it's always there with them embed code automatically?

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.

Re: Plex Integration

Sander — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:41:30 GMT

Hello! Any news on the Plex integration article? I'm working on Plex plugins and it would be very nice to have some info from Brightcove on how to work with their player(s)!

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.

Re: Player Logging Utility

BC-Grant — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:45:48 GMT

Since Brian wrote that article, we've made significant improvements to the player logging features, making the article out of date, so we've removed the article from the Developer Center. You can read about the improved player debugger in this help topic.

Re: Custom Player Example - Player Controls

BC-Grant — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:15:03 GMT

We've observed some problems with the code in this example, so we've taken the article down. We hope to get it fixed and re-published at some point in the future.

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!

Re: New Article: Refreshing the page between videos

BC-ChrisD — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:59:36 GMT

It looks like one of our developers was able to answer this question in the forums. Check out the thread here:

http://forum.brightcove.com/brgh/board/message?board.id=dev-general&thread.id=535

Re: New Article: Refreshing the page between videos

stjoe — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:20:06 GMT

This is a good article and the demo seems to work. Unfortunately I'm not using the super fancy player so most of it breaks down in my scenario.

I would like to have the page refresh when a user clicks on the related videos in the Single player window once the video is done ..... I can't find / guess what that var would be called.

I'm guessing once I know the flash variable it would be easy to get to with this call:

videoList = exp.getElementByID("videoList");

relatedList = exp.getElementByID(" ???? ");

Can anybody point me to what the related video element is called ?? I wouldn't mind seeing a list of all the variables available to me ...

Thanks!

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.

Re: Plex Integration

BC-Grant — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:54:21 GMT

We temporarily removed the Plex integration article, because we want to update it to be compatible with the new Plex framework. The updated article should be ready in the next week or so.

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.