Our engineering team just created and published a fantastic article on how to create a Video Sitemap - one of the best SEO techniques for videos on your site. Have a read - sample code will be included in the near future. http://developer.brightcove.com/en/articles/making-your-video-content-indexable
One of the great requirements of accessibility standards is the ability to control things completely via the keyboard. Not as sexy as creating a 3D video player - but still incredibility important in today's world. Having the ability to control your video player by the keyboard is a great win and allows you to reach an even wider audience.&n...
A quick one for the Friday afternoon (glorious sunshine in London today!) about Player level security. It's a absolute must that you protect your content and your rights and Brightcove offers great features to lock things down on all levels. At the player level don't forget to lock your players to your web domain. This will prevent yo...
In the last couple of weeks several clients have been asking about the difference between steaming and progressive download delivery methods. Let’s start with progressive downloads. The video is actually downloaded to the viewer’s computer, and stored in a temporary directory.
During last night's very successful inaugural Brightcove London Meetup I found myself in deep conversation with one of our solution partners exploring some of the intricacies of implementing video as a medium for a website. What follows is a series of posts deep diving on some of these topics starting with one of the most powerful...
Back in the 2nd half of 2008 Brightcove Global Services and Support rolled out a new Platform Training initiative. With focus on classroom delivery, the team has had great success in delivering instructor led, curriculum based content to classes in London, New York, LA and Toronto. Recently the team has started to roll out online progr...
I have completed a fairly low-tech demo of Brightcove in 3D using the native capabilities of Flash Player 10. You can find the demo here. I shall be posting a link to the full code in the near future. If you are interested in 3D and video - post a comment!