Developer

This sample application uses the Media API to query for a list of the five most-viewed videos in the past week, and displays them in an HTML sidebar. The videos are clickable and launch a player in a new window.

Brightcove player templates enable you to create your own custom components. Custom components can be visual components, like a sidebar listing popular videos or a banner displaying a promotion, or non-visual components, like an analytics SWF.

Once you have created a custom component that you want to include in your players, you can add it to a Brightcove player template, using BEML. How you add a custom component to your player template depends on whether it's a visual component, which needs to be located at a specifed spot in the player layout, or a non-visual component, which doesn't need to appear in the player layout. In either case, you need to make sure that your custom component file is hosted at a URL that the Brightcove player can reach, and that you have accounted for Flash's cross-domain security constraints.

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 topic describes how you can also edit a custom template, copy a template, or delete a template.