Players

In this article, you will learn how to use the Brightcove Captions API to display DFXP format captions for a video. You can download a zip file that contains the source code for the example in this article. The approach in this article depends on custom metadata fields, which are available only to Brightcove Pro and Enterprise publishers.

An example that shows how to dynamically add or remove players from a page using the createExperience() and removeExperience() methods in the Video Cloud JavaScript Player API.

Tips for creating and publishing high quality screencasts.

Problem: You’d like the URL that users grab using the “Get Link” button to match the URL of the page.
Solution: Override the current link in the player by calling the setLink() function of the Social Module.

By default, the Brightcove player’s “Get Link” functionality will give a user a URL that lives on Brightcove’s servers. It will look something like this:

This article will point out a few key best practices that you can implement to best use Brightcove's Simple Feeds feature  for increasing repeat traffic, optimizing visitor flows and reaping some benefits with the search engines.

An example that shows how to initiate a page refresh in between videos, and in the process provides a good workout with several different and useful parts of the Player API.

This customized player shows what I believe to be the simplest and most effective approach to a basic implementation of subtitling (or captioning) in normal and full screen mode.

This article demonstrates how you can use cue points in a video to trigger a "buy" link or another call to action in the page when the cue point is encountered in the video. Cue points can store metadata, so it's possible to add into the cue point information such as a product name or ID, which can then be used during playback.

How to download and use the Brightcove Player API SWC to ease your custom player development in an IDE.