Player API and Custom Player Development

Player API Overview

This document provides an introduction to the Brightcove player framework, a powerful way to build customer-facing video-centric UI for your websites. The framework is built entirely in Flash Player 9 technologies for fast performance, secure communications and true full-screen video playback.

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Getting Started with the Player API

An overview of the JavaScript and ActionScript publishing code for Brightcove 3 players.

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Using JavaScript with the Player API

This document will walk you through the steps required to publish a Brightcove player in HTML and begin interacting with it using the Player API. Brightcove exposes an API in JavaScript, so all you need is a text editor and web browser to work with it.

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Using ActionScript with the Player API

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.

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Player API MediaEvents

This topic describes the model for the events dispatched by the VideoPlayer and VideoDisplay components.

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Brightcove Player API Changes

A list of changed or deprecated objects, methods, and events in the Brightcove Player API.

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Player API SWC

In addition to providing ActionScript reference documentation for our Player APIs, we've packaged all the relevant parts of the API into an ActionScript SWC library. The SWC provides a manifestation of a more formal Player SDK that can be integrated into Flash IDEs.

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Player ActionScript Wrapper Classes

This topic discusses the different ActionScript classes available for wrapping the Brightcove player in different development scenarios in order to gain proper strong typing and code hints.

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Customizing the Menu's Additional Media

The Brightcove Player API includes a number of methods that enable you to customize the media that appears within the Info screen of the Brightcove menu. This topic describes how you can take advantage of this functionality.

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Calling Functions from List Items

The Brightcove Player API provides global functions that can be referenced directly in the player template. These functions enable components in a ListItem to make function calls. This topic describes the global functions that are available.

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