why not start with the above link, it can have any skin you want, cheap, easy to maintain and update, we use it and love it!

What I’m trying to do is something like this:

http://www.flashinflash.com/console.html

Thanks! Alex.

I’ve been working with the API to create customized players embedded in Flash applications. It’s pretty tricky! I’ve hit a wall with troubleshooting for my most recently thing so I am awaiting responses on the two Brightcove help forums. If anyone is more familiar with it, please help me out here!

Ok, seriously, I thought Dai’s personal diary was cool, but this is just amazing. And to think, I thought I was gonna one up him with my trip to Miami.

I’m still on the fence about BC, I see lots of papers using it– the NYTs has gone nuts with it — but I’m not sure how it’s going to carry over on a news site. Personally I still like Blip.tv for the bug free presentation and for their user agreement which specifically lets u retain your copyright and even request your material be removed at anytime.

So a quick question about music, over at the Sentinel Ryan and I have had quite a few convos about using licensed music. I’ve noticed that Dai has started making his own to avoid the issue, but here you’re using someone else’s music as the main track (Plus lots of other papers are using copyrighted music). Do you see any problems with this? And come to think of it, does the Merc have any policy on this?

Colin.

Do you do any work with PodTech or is that aspect of video distribution completely separate?

PS – That’s an awesome video. Did security bother you for taking shooting (a camera, that is) inside airports/airplanes?

By the way loved your travel video. Was it my imagination or were you shooting with everything under the sun–video, stills, time-lapse. Nice music, too. And I liked the eye blinking effect. Hope you didn’t miss any of your cconnections.

But my main point is the effort and knowledge it takes to build a flash player with the kind of functionality as the BC player is damn hard if you’re not a programmer. Which I am not. I have been trying to learn php mysql etc. To get this done for us, but what a pain. The paper waNts to be able to have readers share, email, embed, our video players, not to mention ease of uploading and maintaining the video player and for a small shop like ours, places like BC are great, easy to use, upload, create, maintain and skin players with easy ad placement. I know the WP pays the ‘pro’ price which gives you all the benifits of the player and you keep your revenue. What I’m saying is papers should invest in this tool. Why have the paper re-invent the wheel when somebody already has a better mouse trap? Yes you’re right for the free BC option. But not the pay for the BC service.

-r

I know MediaStorm and WP use Brightcove but haven’t seen many other news sites using this.

Just wondering!