Open Source @ Brightcove


Welcome to Open Source

Open Source @ Brightcove is a community supported initiative to host a variety of applications, SDKs and tools for the Brightcove platform in one central location. Learn More »

Recent News

Brightcove Wordpress Plugin

April 24, 2012 at 3:57PM EST

The Brightcove Video Cloud Plugin for WordPress allows users to easily insert Brightcove videos into their WordPress blog or site. Users can enter videos and playlists by ID or can search for videos if they have an API Read Token.

The plugin is available in the WordPress plugin library. The code is also available here as an opensource plugin, allowing Brightcove publishers to customize the plugin according to their specific needs or unique workflow.

You can learn more about the plugin, see a list of features and view plugin screen shots, by visiting the Technology Partner page for WordPress.

App Cloud Demos

January 31, 2012 at 11:30AM EST

The App Cloud Demos repository gives you some insight into how you can use App Cloud to push content rich applications to mobile devices. View the App Cloud Demos project to see the source code and play around.

Volume Preferences

January 6, 2012 at 1:53PM EST

The Volume Preferences plugin can be used to remember a uer's volume preference, whether it's just a volume change or entirely muted. View the Volume Preferences project to see the source code and get more detail.

comScore Update: Version 2.0.2

December 16, 2011 at 8:25PM EST

The comScore plugin has been updated to be in-line with comScore's latest integration, ditching the old mapping files of the past. View the comScore Plugin SWF to access the source code and see more detail.

CQ5 Component

December 5, 2011 at 10:55AM EST

This component integrates Brightcove's service into Adobe's CQ5 author instance. Built by Coresecure, this CQ5 Component allows you to add Brightcove videos to your content and access the information from Video Cloud in your site. Please see the Brightcove Partner page for more info. View the Third Party Projects page to access the source code.

Now Available: Brightcove Actionscript SDK

October 14, 2011 at 11:40AM EST

If you're building plugins using Flash Builder or Flex Builder and are interacting with the Media APIs, you owe it to yourself to grab this SDK and make your life significantly easier. Check out the introduction on the project page.

Now Available: SharePoint 2010 Integration

September 16, 2011 at 10:45AM EST

Does your organization use SharePoint? If so, you.ll be interested in seeing our new SharePoint integration, which allows you to manage your Brightcove library, edit video metadata, create playlists and publish them to your site - all within SharePoint.

Emulate Your App Cloud Projects

August 2nd, 2011 at 6:10PM EST

With the App Cloud Emulator, you can more quickly develop and test your App Cloud application by emulating the device (as close as possible) right inside your browser. If speeding up your development and testing time sounds like something you're interested in, grab the emulator today.

Choose Your Rendition: Just Drop In Some BEML

July 13th, 2011 at 12:47PM EST

With the Rendition Selector Plugin you can now present your users with a seamless control for selecting what rendition they want to watch.

Now Available: Share Link Override SWF

July 13th, 2011 at 10:36AM EST

Our Share Link Override SWF is a simple plugin you can include with your player that will make the share link of the player the same URL of the page the player is currently on. That way, when a user grabs the share link, you can be sure they drive traffic back to your site.

Brightcove Releases Some of Their Own Monitoring Tools

July 12th, 2011 at 8:20PM EST

Diamond is a python daemon that collects system metrics and publishes them to Graphite. It is capable of collecting cpu, memory, network, i/o, load and disk metrics. Additionally, it features an API for implementing custom collectors for gathering metrics from almost any source. Provided by Brightcove's Systems Engineering team.

Now Available: Omniture Plugin SWF

July 1st, 2011 at 1:00PM EST

Our new Omniture SWF plugin is a simple way to leverage numerous player events and customize it to fit your Site Catalyst setup painlessly.

Open Source Releases Syndication Tool

January 14th, 2011 at 12:30PM EST

Open Source @ Brightcove is happy to announce the release of our highly-anticipated syndication tool for the Brightcove platform. Unveiled at the 2011 Brightcove Board of Customer Advisors, this tool allows Brightcove customers to easily syndicate their content to any third-party in a few simple steps.

Now Available: Context-Aware Related Videos

February 18th, 2011 at 1:06PM EST

Our new Context-Aware Related Videos plugin is a simple JavaScript file that parses your page and returns videos related to the content it finds. Use it to surface more meaningful videos to your visitors with limited effort.

.NET MAPI Wrapper Ported to Open Source @ Brightcove

February 18th, 2011 at 11:01AM EST

The team at Velir have contributed their fantastic .NET Media API Wrapper to Open Source @ Brightcove. Be sure to check it out and simplify your Brightcove .NET projects by using it!

Java MAPI Wrapper Joins Open Source @ Brightcove

February 1st, 2011 at 1:52PM EST

The incredibly popular Java Media API Wrapper is now part of Open Source @ Brightcove. The project has also released Version 3 and now comes with a sibling project, Java Commons.

Ruby MAPI Wrapper Joins Open Source @ Brightcove

January 14th, 2011 at 3:20PM EST

We're pleased to announce that the Ruby MAPI Wrapper developed by the folks over at Agora Games has been ported to Open Source @ Brightcove and is now available for use. The code is a great tool for anyone looking to integrate Brightcove with their Ruby projects.

Featured Project

Rendition Selector Plugin

Populates a ComboBox in BEML named "renditionCombo", displaying various choices for rendition quality selection.

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Get Involved

Anyone can join the Open Source @ Brightcove team. Dive right in and start responding to issues, answering forum questions or submitting code patches through our GitHub repository.

Email us at opensource@brightcove.com to let us know how you'd like to help.