Grant Goodman's Posts

Oscar Cortes, Brightcove Senior Software Engineer, has created a new sample for the Developer Center that uses a Flex application to upload videos to Brightcove, using the Media API.

The Player API's Experience Module has a new method named getStage() that returns a reference to the player's Stage. This opens up all kinds of possibilities. Chris DeGrace examines some of them, including how you can use getStage() to access the configuratiom parameters (like publisherID and @videoPlayer) in the player's publishing code.

Crystal West has written a new article for the Developer Center that describes how to deliver ads to Brightcove players without using an ad server. Read all about it.

Plex is a powerful open-source media center application for OS X. Kristen McGregor and Nat Tarbox, members of Brightcove's Professional Services team, wrote an article that shows you how you can use the Brightcove Media API to integrate Brightcove with Plex. Read more.

Search engines like Google and Yahoo need help in finding the video content on your site. The best way to help them is to create a sitemap that identifies the video content. A new article by Ashley Streb describes how you can leverage the Media API to generate sitemaps and video sitemaps. It includes sample code for Ruby, Python, and Java.

We have a new article and code sample in the Dev Center. Chris DeGrace describes how you can use the linkBaseURL player configuration parameter, as well as the getLink() and setLink() methods of the Player API to automatically append the playlist ID and video ID to the "get link" URL in order to support deep linking.

A new article by Brightcove developer Crystal West describes how to use the ExpandingBanner BEML component, including tips about positioning and sizing the ExpandingBanner component in your custom BEML template. Read more.