Developer

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

This document describes how to develop an analytics SWF. An analytics SWF is a non-visual Flash component that you can use to fire and collect events relating to video and player performance.

In addition to the standard Brightcove player templates that are automatically available to you in the Publishing module, you can use any number of custom player templates you create yourself. You specify a custom player template using Brightcove's XML player specification, BEML. After you create the XML document that specifies your custom player template, you add the player template to your account by pasting the XML into a field in the Publishing module. Once you've added your custom player template in the Publishing module, you can create any number of instances of your custom player, just as you can with the standard Brightcove player templates.

This page presents the source for the example Google Flash Tracking Analytics SWF, GoogleAnalytics.as. You can also download it as a zip file. This sample file fires the player load, stream start, and stream complete events to Google Analytics. It is described in more detail in Sample Analytics SWF: Google Analytics Flash Tracking.