In my own FLA I have BC3 code, that works ok. If I check the value of bcPlayer
it shows as
Object [FederatedFactory]. Any attempt to call the usual bcPlayer methods fails.
How do I call
the bcPlayer methods?

Here's the string I'm pasting directly into the browser. Of course I
don't include my actual token below.

http://api.brightcove.com/services/library?command=delete_video&video_id=1692732\
3&cascade=true&token=myValidSecretToken

I am away from the office for the holidays. I will be back on December 31st. I
will reply to your e-mail as soon as I can. Thank you and enjoy the holiday
season.

Brian,
We're an ad network with an AdSwf that delivers overlay ads during
the stream. We are loaded when the video player is loaded and on the
start of each content (whether manually started or automatically in
started from playlist rotation), we start serving overlays.

At the end of a video we want to show our postframe. However, if the
site's player is set up to auto-advance, we need to halt that auto-
advance while our postframe is showing.

So to answer your questions:
* The adSwf has 2 roles: show overlays during the video and a
postframe after completion (but not let the next video begin)
* We do not control the player, so we have to work around auto-
advance that might exist for the player



--- In brightcove-dev@yahoogroups.com, Brian Deitte <bdeitte@...>
wrote:
>
> How is the ad SWF triggered?  ad SWFs are supposed to be triggered
at specific ad policy events.  For instance, an ad SWF can happen at
the postroll, as set up in the ad module.  It sounds to me like this
ad SWF just stays around?
>
> Can you just use "videoComplete" here, or does it have to be when
the video is changed?
>
> If it helps, you can also turn off (and then back on)
automaticAdvance through the API.  It is a property of List and
TileList.
> ________________________________
> From: brightcove-dev@yahoogroups.com [mailto:brightcove-
dev@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of marathonburke
> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 2:46 PM
> To: brightcove-dev@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [brightcove-dev] Re: Events to listen for in order to show
a "post frame" before next video starts
>
>
> This is happening in an AdSwf.
>
> I was going to use "videoChange" and when that happens, I'd do the
> following:
> 1) VideoChange is thrown
> 2) Pause Video
> 3) Show Postframe for X seconds
> 4) Hide Postframe
> 5) Resume Video
>
> Not the most elegant, but it would do the trick.
>
> However, I saw that "videoChange" event has been removed?
> http://help.brightcove.com/publisher/docs/intro/known-
issues.cfm#BC14359
>

This is happening in an AdSwf.

I was going to use "videoChange" and when that happens, I'd do the
following:
1) VideoChange is thrown
2) Pause Video
3) Show Postframe for X seconds
4) Hide Postframe
5) Resume Video

Not the most elegant, but it would do the trick.

However, I saw that "videoChange" event has been removed?
http://help.brightcove.com/publisher/docs/intro/known-issues.cfm#BC14359

I want to show an "postframe" after the video is over and BEFORE the
next video auto-starts.

I could listen for "videoComplete", but how would one stop the next
video so that the postframe can be shown. When the postframe display
time is over, I'd want to resume the loading of the next video in the
lineup.

I have a player that loads multiple "videos".  I am listening for the
MediaLoad javascript event exposed in the brightcove api to determine
when a new video is loaded into the player. Like this...
callFlash("addEventListener", "mediaLoad", "onMediaLoad");

I would like to determine the media or video id when it is loaded.  It
doesn't seem like any of the information available in the DTO's is
what I am really looking for.  Possibly, the videoIds in the LineupDTO
(like in this post:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/brightcove-dev/message/3634).  Any
one know if there is a simpler way to get the media id after the media
event has been fired?

We have been trying to embed the Brightcove player inside a custom flex
component. The
brightcove player however has positioning issues.

The wrapper flex component is pretty simple with just the following code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
initialize="initApp();"
height="340" width="518" backgroundGradientColors="[#FF0000, #FF0000]"
usePreloader="false">
     <mx:Script><![CDATA[
         import mx.core.UIComponent;
         private var mPlayer:Object;
         private var mContent:Object;
         private var mExp:Object;
         private var player:BrightcovePlayer;
         public function initApp():void {
             player = new BrightcovePlayer();
             player.x = 0;
             player.y = 0;
             player.addEventListener("templateLoaded", templateLoaded);
             var component:UIComponent = new UIComponent();
             component.addChild(player);
             this.addChild(component);
         }
         public function templateLoaded(evt:Event):void {
             mPlayer = player.getModule("videoPlayer");
             mContent = player.getModule("content");
             mExp = player.getModule("experience");
             mExp.addEventListener("contentLoad", contentLoad);
         }
         public function contentLoad(evt:Event):void {
             var clipId:String = "someclipid";
             mPlayer.cueVideo(clipId, "referenceId");
         }

         ]]></mx:Script>
</mx:Application>

However  the generated swf has the brightcove player at an offset of around
200px. Giving
a negative offset temporarily solves the problem but on trying the fullscreen
option if the
video has a logo, the logo shifts off the screen.

NB: The Brightcove player class above is the default one provided by
studio3.brightcove.com site.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have a container movie that has a stage.align = "T". when i load the
brightcove player into this container, the entire site, including
other embedded swfs all shift to the stage.align = "TL" and wont
restore after. how do i override the default stage.align value that is
coming from the player?

---

From: brightcove-dev@yahoogroups.com [mailto:brightcove-dev@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of jrinco11
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 12:18 PM
To: brightcove-dev@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [brightcove-dev] Re: ad translator to display swf companion banner w/built in clickthru not working

I don't have a working case, as each time the clickthru for the swf
(when it has the clickthru in the querystring) never works.

and what I have below is XML that I'm sending to setAdXML().

--- In brightcove-dev@yahoogroups.com, Brian Deitte <bdeitte@...> wrote:
>
> Can you send the XML that you are sending to setAdXML() in the
working and non-working case? Thanks.
>
> ________________________________
> From: brightcove-dev@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:brightcove-dev@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of jrinco11
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 1:16 PM
> To: brightcove-dev@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [brightcove-dev] ad translator to display swf companion
banner w/built in clickthru not working
>
>
> hey ya'll -- so I am using the XML as format to connect to a 3rd party
> adserver to display ads (preroll video and companion banners), and I'm
> having issues getting swf clickthrus to work for the companion banners.
>
> The banner displays just fine, and is clickable, but the url it goes
> to is undefined. The swf is setup such that the clickthru url is
> grabbed from the querystring in it's own url, so for example the swf
> would be
> "http://www.urlToBanner.com/banner.swf?clickthru=http://url.com" and
> the swf itself has a "on release{getURL(_level0.clickthru, "_blank");}"
>
> using the xml ad format for the ad translation layer, I'm trying it
> like this:
>
> var lcXML:String = "<SynchedBanner468x60 duration=\"" + duration +
> "\" trackStartURLs=\""+trackStartURLs+"\"
> trackMidURLs=\""+trackMidURLs+"\" trackEndURLs=\""+trackEndURLs+"\" >" +
> "<videoURL>" + videoURL + "</videoURL>" +
> "<videoClickURL>" + videoClickURL + "</videoClickURL>" +
> "<expandedBannerURL>" + expandedBannerURL + "</expandedBannerURL>";
> if (bannerClickURL != undefined) {
> lcXML+= "<expandedBannerClickURL>" + bannerClickURL +
> "</expandedBannerClickURL>";
> }
>
> Before, I did not have that if statement, and it would 'assign'
> undefined as the URL (bannerClickURL is undefined for such swfs). I
> thought that if not sending an <expandedBannerClickURL> the it
> wouldn't try to assign it and it would just use the internal
> clickthru, but I guess not.
>
> However, if I use a swf that has a URL hard coded (such as
> getURL{"http://www.google.com", _blank), and I have the if statement
> above, the clickthru works.
>
> Any suggestions? Perhaps I'm missing something obvious?
>

I also am interested in the same exact thing. If you come across a
solution or someone answers you, I would greatly appreciate it to hear
and learn about it too.

Thanks.

I don't have a working case, as each time the clickthru for the swf
(when it has the clickthru in the querystring) never works.

and what I have below is XML that I'm sending to setAdXML().


--- In brightcove-dev@yahoogroups.com, Brian Deitte <bdeitte@...> wrote:
>
> Can you send the XML that you are sending to setAdXML() in the
working and non-working case?  Thanks.
>
> ________________________________
> From: brightcove-dev@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:brightcove-dev@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of jrinco11
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 1:16 PM
> To: brightcove-dev@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [brightcove-dev] ad translator to display swf companion
banner w/built in clickthru not working
>
>
> hey ya'll -- so I am using the XML as format to connect to a 3rd party
> adserver to display ads (preroll video and companion banners), and I'm
> having issues getting swf clickthrus to work for the companion banners.
>
> The banner displays just fine, and is clickable, but the url it goes
> to is undefined. The swf is setup such that the clickthru url is
> grabbed from the querystring in it's own url, so for example the swf
> would be
> "http://www.urlToBanner.com/banner.swf?clickthru=http://url.com" and
> the swf itself has a "on release{getURL(_level0.clickthru, "_blank");}"
>
> using the xml ad format for the ad translation layer, I'm trying it
> like this:
>
> var lcXML:String = "<SynchedBanner468x60 duration=\"" + duration +
> "\" trackStartURLs=\""+trackStartURLs+"\"
> trackMidURLs=\""+trackMidURLs+"\" trackEndURLs=\""+trackEndURLs+"\" >" +
> "<videoURL>" + videoURL + "</videoURL>" +
> "<videoClickURL>" + videoClickURL + "</videoClickURL>" +
> "<expandedBannerURL>" + expandedBannerURL + "</expandedBannerURL>";
> if (bannerClickURL != undefined) {
> lcXML+= "<expandedBannerClickURL>" + bannerClickURL +
> "</expandedBannerClickURL>";
> }
>
> Before, I did not have that if statement, and it would 'assign'
> undefined as the URL (bannerClickURL is undefined for such swfs). I
> thought that if not sending an <expandedBannerClickURL> the it
> wouldn't try to assign it and it would just use the internal
> clickthru, but I guess not.
>
> However, if I use a swf that has a URL hard coded (such as
> getURL{"http://www.google.com", _blank), and I have the if statement
> above, the clickthru works.
>
> Any suggestions? Perhaps I'm missing something obvious?
>

Yes, we were using dynamic delivery. After a discussion with
Brightcove, we plan to switch to streaming rather than progressive
video. As I understand it, with progressive video the bandwidth is
only detected at the start, but is continuously detected with streaming.

After playing around a little more, I think my browser cache _may_
having been preventing the bandwidth from being properly detected, but
I'm not certain.

Chris



--- In brightcove-dev@yahoogroups.com, Brian Deitte <bdeitte@...> wrote:
>
> Are you using dynamic delivery (that is, having more than one FLV
associated with a video)?  We probably don't detect bandwidth when
dynamic delivery isn't being used, and so it's just that the message
is confusing.  -Brian
>
> ________________________________
> From: brightcove-dev@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:brightcove-dev@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of chris57972000
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 1:36 PM
> To: brightcove-dev@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [brightcove-dev] Bandwidth Not Detected
>
>
> When I turn on "show debug information" in my player, under detected
> bandwidth it reads "not able to detect" and the rendition used is
> always the lowest.
>
> Does anyone have an idea what might prevent bandwidth from being
> detected? We are using Brightcove 3.0.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>

--- In brightcove-dev@yahoogroups.com, Brian Deitte <bdeitte@...> wrote:
>
> Have you see the AdSwfConfig value related to full screen?  This may
solve your full screen issue if it's related to the display of the ad.
>
> Any events that are exposed in the API should be accessible through
the ad SWF.  I'm not sure what's happening in this case, but I'll enter
a bug on it.
>
Any update on this? Still not seeing the fullscreen events from within
the AdSwf -- when should we expect this bug to be fix. This bug results
in overlay ads not rendering visible when player goes into fullscreen
mode

Just to update...I have now got flash logging working...

None of the trace code I have put into my swf seems to appear in the
log.

Only if I apply a trace to the first keyframe does it get output.

So although i have linked my brightcove.as file as a document class
of the FLA, do i need to link the code using actionscript with the
timeline in some way?

Tim

--- In brightcove-dev@yahoogroups.com, "ymuflkpictures" <ymuflk@...>
wrote:
>
> I have not managed to get my flash logging to work, but I have
tried
> a new test....I have pointed my player at one of the existing 3rd
> party ad translators built by Brightcove. I can see the semicolons
in
> the ad call being changed to &. In my case I want to change the
> semicolons to /. This means that there must be a problem with my
swf
> file or the way I have built it.
>
> Could someone email me their FLA file and associated .as file so I
> can see where I might be going wrong?
>
> tim.edmonds@...
>
> Thanks
>
> --- In brightcove-dev@yahoogroups.com, Brian Deitte <bdeitte@>
> wrote:
> >
> > I'm not sure what the issue is here.  Have you tried tracing out
> messages from the translator?  If you Google on "flashlog.txt", you
> can find out how to trace out messages from the translator.
> >
> > The new player logging may also help you figure out what's going
on
> in the player.  I'll send out a separate message on this.  -Brian
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: brightcove-dev@yahoogroups.com [mailto:brightcove-
> dev@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of ymuflkpictures
> > Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 11:57 AM
> > To: brightcove-dev@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [brightcove-dev] Re: Using Ad Tag Translator to call Ads
> with 3rd party ad server
> >
> >
> > Hello All,
> >
> > Firstly...thanks Sean for your advice. It turns out that the
> problem I was having is that both
> > our server and the 3rd party ad provider did not have the
> crossdomain.xml file set up to
> > allow the various domains involved.
> >
> > I now have a new problem. Although I am getting ads coming
through,
> this is only
> > because of the URL set up as the player-level base ad tag URL,
> which is being called and
> > adding on the key value pairs I have configured in Brightcove.
> >
> > The ad translator file appears to be called, but no matter what i
> put in it I am not able to
> > change the parameters being passed into the ad URL. Its almost as
> if brightcove is
> > ignoring the swf file completely, despite a call to it appearing
in
> httpfox.
> >
> > Is there a way to alert things from the ad translator swf itself?
> >
> > Tim
> >
> > --- In brightcove-dev@yahoogroups.com<mailto:brightcove-dev%
> 40yahoogroups.com>, "Sean Dillon" <sean.dillon@> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > From: brightcove-dev@yahoogroups.com<mailto:brightcove-dev%
> 40yahoogroups.com>
> > > > [mailto:brightcove-dev@yahoogroups.com<mailto:brightcove-dev%
> 40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of ymuflkpictures
> > > > Sent: 03 December 2008 15:41
> > > > To: brightcove-dev@yahoogroups.com<mailto:brightcove-dev%
> 40yahoogroups.com>
> > > > Subject: [brightcove-dev] Using Ad Tag Translator to call Ads
> > > > with 3rd party ad server
> > > >
> > > > Hello...
> > > >
> > > > I am trying to use a 3rd party ad server to run ads in my BC
> > > > video player.
> > > >
> > > > I have had the ad translator field added to my account. I
> > > > have also created an ad translator swf using CS3 based on the
> > > > example provided by BC.
> > > >
> > > > Everything is set up as per the documentation and I am seeing
> > > > my test video with no problems, but no ads. Although I
> > > > suspect i need to tweak my swf file a little, I have no idea
> > > > how to debug this since it is BC that calls my swf file.
> > > >
> > > > I am not terribly experienced with Actionscript, but would
> > > > like to alert some variables. Can anyone advise?
> > >
> > >
> > > For debugging you need somethin like httpWatch or httpFox, it
> allows
> > > you to see what's being called from the page and is invaluable
> when
> > > you're doing this sort of dev work.
> > >
> > > Even I the swf is calling the ad/url it is in effect the browser
> > > that calls it and as such will be caught by these tools and
> displayed.
> > >
> > > httpWatch is pricey (but good) httpFox is free, other products
> include:
> > >
> > > Personally I recommend httpWatch & httpFox, they're in my
> USB/toolkit.
> > >
> > >
> > > Seán
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > =======================================================
> > ============
> > > Seán Dillon
> > > Manager - Advertising Operations
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