A new article in the Developer Center by Ashley Streb shows you how to create a custom player component that adds a "Post to MySpace" button to a Brightcove player. Read all about it. You can also read this previous article about connecting your Brightcove videos with social media sites.
Matt Congrove has written a new article that shows how easy it is to upload videos using a simple form, the Brightcove Media API, and Echove, an open-s.... This is a follow-up to Matt's earlier article about updating video metadata with Echove.
A new article in the Brightcove Developer Center by Jesse Streb demonstrates a custom SWF component that a tracks when a user has changed the audio volume setting in a player and stores that volume setting in a Flash shared object, otherwise known as as Flash cookie.
By default, a player's "Get Link" button gives a link to the player, using a Brightcove server URL. Brandon Aaskov writes about how to use the setLink() function of the Player API's Social Module to give a link to the page that contains the player instead. Read all about it.
Brian Franklin describes how you can use the Brightcove Player API to to dynamically set player styles with custom Brightcove CSS strings. This approach helps you keep your content and styling separate for easy maintainability and reuse. Read more...
Matt Congrove and Brian Franklin have continued to develop Echove, the PHP SDK for the Brightcove Media API. Matt's written a sample that shows you how easy it is to use Echove with the Media API find and update methods to modify your videos' metadata. Read more...
Alex Kieft, from DigiNovations, created a custom component and custom player template for a player that shows the number of times the currently-playing video has been viewed. The component code has been written as the document class for a Flash CS4 or Flex 3 ActionScript project, but it could easily be adapted to work in other circumstances.