Flash-only Player API

This document walks you through the steps required to publish a Video Cloud player in an HTML page and begin interacting with it using the Flash-only Player API. Video Cloud exposes a API in JavaScript for Flash players, so all you need is a text editor and web browser to work with it.

This document will walk you through the steps required to publish a player in Flash and begin interacting with it using the Video Cloud Flash-only Player API.

If you have a background in ActionScript 3 and want to integrate Flash with your players, you can do so through the Video Cloud Flash-only Player API.

This topic describes the model for the events dispatched by the VideoPlayer and VideoDisplay components of the Flash-only Player API.

This topic describes a set of examples that show you how you can use the Video Cloud Flash-only Player API to customize your players.

In addition to providing ActionScript reference documentation for our Flash-only Player APIs, we've packaged all the relevant parts of the API into an ActionScript SWC library. The SWC provides a manifestation of a more formal Player SDK that can be integrated into Flash IDEs.

The Video Cloud Flash-only Player API includes a number of methods that enable you to customize the media that appears within the Info screen of the Video Cloud menu. This topic describes how you can take advantage of this functionality.

This topic introduces the Captions Module API, which you can use to include closed captions in any Video Cloud video. This API is a part of the Video Cloud Flash-only Player APIs.

For most use cases, Brightcove recommends that you use the Smart Player API, instead of the Flash-only Player API. Read about how to use the Captions Module in the Smart Player API.

This document walks you through the steps required to change the video in the player in a tab navigation player when the viewer selected a new playlist using the Player API. Video Cloud exposes an API in JavaScript, so all you need is an HTML/JavaScript editor, or just a plain text editor, and web browser to test your work. Although this example uses JavaScript, you could easily adapt it to ActionScript if you prefer to use the ActionScript Player API.

 You can resize your video player using the Player API, which gives you dynamic control of the sizing not available via the publishing code or BEML. 

A reference to objects in the Video Cloud Player API, as it existed in the Video Cloud 3.1 release. THIS IS NOT THE CURRENT VERSION OF THE PLAYER API. See Player API Reference for current information.