In this topic, you will gain a high-level understanding of Brightcove Player including its strengths, video publishing options and basic player management.

In this topic, hands-on steps are provided that when followed customizes the appearance of the Brightcove Player. To customize the appearance of the Brightcove Player you need to use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). This document will go through the process of changing the appearance and location of the play button that initially overlays the video.

This document provides a hands-on introduction to creating a Brightcove Player, then using two different code implementations to publish a video using the newly created player. You will also programmatically start the video playing and then add a plugin to the player.