Brightcove Ecosystem

BEML Search Component Available from Truveo

We are excited to announce a new BEML search component available to any Truveo partner for free! Truveo has built a search component that you can use in your Brightcove templates. It has the ability to search your entire Truveo channel and will return results that will playback in your Brightcove player when selected. This is done through an integration with the Player API. Main Benefits: Offers search functionality, provided by the leading Video Search provider Truveo, embedded in your Brightcove video player. It greatly helps with recirculation and engagement with the optional "Related Video" functionality at the conclusion of...

Stream live video with Brightcove and Livestream

New Brightcove Alliance partner, Livestream, today announced the availability of their new API and a Brightcove player plug-in that they developed with it. At its simplest, the new plug-in allows joint Brightcove and Livestream customers to broadcast live web shows within their Brightcove players. Setup is fairly simple, especially since Livestream put together some straightforward instructions here. For the technically-oriented, the process involves creating a custom player template using BEML; creating a player that uses that template; and then specifying which Livestream "channel" should be loaded into the player. Easy. Livestream offers some great tools for live broadcasting, making the...

Embed Video in Facebook News Feed

We recently worked with Facebook to enable playback of Brightcove video in the 'News Feed.' Now Brightcove publishers can allow their users to share content into their News Feeds on Facebook*. You will probably want to create a new player for viral sharing on Facebook to turn off advertising and track the performance seperately in your reports. Within the HTML code of your site you can configure how the metadata will be passed into the News Feed, full details on Facebook sharing options can be found here. Once this is set, a few lines of Javascript enable a user to...

How to Create an iTunes Podcast (w/sample code)

There is nothing better than the gift of sample code, our very own Carl Rutman from the Brightcove Customer Support team has created a simple yet effective way for Brightcove customers to create iTunes podcasts with their content using the Media APIs. There are some account configuration requirements so be sure to check out the comments section at the top of the PHP file. http://forum.brightcove.com/brgh/board/message?board.id=Developer_2&thread.id=315 Need inspiration? Here are the Best iTunes podcasts of 2008.

Guest Blog Post: Alliance Partner Encoding.com Integrates with Brightcove for Cloud-based Video Encoding

There are clearly some attractive benefits to cloud-based video encoding including a high degree of flexibility and reduced costs. Alliance Partner Encoding.com breaks these down in a new whitepaper “Everything You Wanted To Know About Cloud-Based Video Encoding But Were Afraid To Ask." View Whitepaper

Facebook 'Live Stream Box'

Facebook released the 'Live Stream Box' to their developer community last Wednesday. As you may recall, this was used by CNN for the presidential inauguration - I wrote about it here. I put together a quick demo of how any Brightcove publisher could add this to their video pages to enable user interactivity and engagement with their Facebook network while watching their favorite videos. This is a great way to expand the conversation beyond your regular users to their extended social networks and increase your traffic and user base. When a user adds a post to their 'Live Stream Box'...

Video Tracking with Omniture SiteCatalyst

As online video rapidly moves from internet novelty to business requirement for many web publishers, we have started to see greater and greater call for measurement. Call it what you will: engagement, virality, ROI, something entirely different--but web publishers are increasingly needing to see the results of their video efforts against whichever metrics are important for them. Within the Brightcove Alliance, there are a number of partners who provide plug-ins to enable deep analytics of Brightcove video, including Visible Measures, TubeMogul, GlanceGuide, and Nedstat. Recently, web analytics giant, Omniture, released an updated plug-in as well. Now web publishers who use...

Brightcove on TV - Plex & Vudu

We continue our march towards enabling Brightcove distribution on all major web properties and devices with the introduction of Brightcove for Plex and Vudu. Plex Plex has an innovative UI built off of the XBMC open source entertainment hub project. We have worked with their team to create a Brightcove compatible plug-in that any of our customers can use to launch a channel on Plex. Users of Plex download the software and can customize which channels they would like to view. They can also connect their Mac to a television for a more immersive lean-back experience. Note Plex is currently...

Update - Brightcove on Facebook Fan Pages

Quick update to my post last month, a couple of our customers have already updated their Facebook Fan pages to include Brightcove video! Check it out: FX http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dexter-on-FX-UK/66266495963?v=app_4949752878 US Army http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/USarmy?v=app_6009294086&viewas=783147299

Use BEML for post-video menu

I noticed a great example today of a customer using BEML to invoke a custom menu at the end of each of their videos. This is a great opportunity to re-enforce your branding and/or message as well as provide additional options for sharing. By listening for the "mediaComplete" event you can overlay the standard Brightcove menu with a custom version such as the example below. You can also check it out here (also a pretty cool 'Hypervideo Player' in the video). More on Player API MediaEvents here.