Brightcove players has built-in support for a variety of ad formats, from video ads to video pods to overlays. These ad formats have a page which describe their use in the built-in player templates; this article explains their support in custom templates.

This HTML/JavaScript example illustrates the use of both the Video and the Ad Player APIs in combination with DoubleClick DART for Publishers (DFP) Video & Rich Media ads.

The following example is an ad translator which can be used to serve video ads or ad SWFs without the use of an ad server. This example is given as an alternative to using a real ad server or to using ad XML without an ad server.

This document describes how to integrate Brightcove players with ads. It is intended for Brightcove Pro or Enterprise publishers who have built a custom ad library or are using a product like Google AdSense for Video to render all player ads.

This document describes how to troubleshoot video advertising issues in your Video Cloud player. It is intended for Video Cloud Pro or Enterprise publishers who are selling and serving video ad campaigns.

An example that demonstrates positioning and sizing the ExpandingBanner component in a custom BEML template.

This article describes how to access the Brightcove Media API using C# .NET 3.5. Usage of another .NET programming language can be extrapolated by principle.

In this article we'll go over how to easily upload videos to your Brightcove account through a form. We'll be using Echove, an open-source PHP SDK for interacting with the Brightcove Media API.

How do you find all videos in the Brightcove system?

It's a common use case, and yet not quite as straight forward as one would think.

If PHP is your language of choice, the Brightcove PHP SDK, Echove, contains a findAll convenience method which does this for you.

If Java is your language of choice, I strongly recommend downloading the open source SDK:
http://bc-j-mapi-w.sourceforge.net/

And the code for the Java SDK:

In this article we will walk through the steps required for creating a Plex / Brightcove integration. Plex is a powerful media center application for OS X. It is an open source project, based on the XBMC code, and very similar in functionality to Boxee.

An example that uses the getStage() method in the Player API's Experience module, which returns a reference to the Stage. This allows for numerous possibilities, including the ability to extract parameters passed in the player publishing code such as publisherID or @videoPlayer and even custom values you include yourself. This example show how to use this functionality inside a component SWF.

This article demonstrates how to create a custom, scalable Chromeless Video Player template using only BEML. It also touches on several other BEML enhancements added in the Brightcove 4.1 release in April 2010.