Brightcove Player
BRIGHTCOVE PLAYER
the pinnacle of STREAMING PERFORMANCE
Target core audiences with confidence with Brightcove Player 7
Our powerful HTML5 player
WHY PLAYER 7 IS NUMBER 1
Quality streaming on a global scale
- Cross-platform HLS – Deliver the best quality with the least download with high-quality, adaptive bitrate video even on platforms that don’t have native HLS capability.
- Easy player management – Keep track of player configurations and make changes to styles and plugins either through Video Cloud or the Player Management API. Easily update players across your site without changing the code for each page.
Streaming platforms are only as good as their video players. Find out what makes a great one.
Developer friendly
- Easy customization – Customize nearly every detail of the player libraries and CSS using standard web technologies (CSS and JavaScript)
- Built on Video.js – With a plugin architecture and a library of open-source and partner-built plugins, the sky’s the limit
Everything you want to know about Brightcove Player 7 is right here in our support documentation.
Viewers love it too
- Incredibly fast loading – With an extremely fast time to first frame, viewers immediately engage with your content
- Centralized control – Have dozens of player configurations at your fingertips
- Effortless scalability – Enjoy global hosting and CDN delivery
- Super responsive – Automatically resizes to fit changing web layouts while maintaining the aspect ratio of the video
Find out why Brightcove was named a leader in the Aragon Research Globe™ for Enterprise Video 2023 Report.
Wide variety of integrations
- Ecosystem of plugins and integrations – including ones for 3rd party advertising and analytics
- App extensibility – APIs make it easy to integrate multiple components and to customize player behavior based on an app’s requirements
- CMS integrations – Easily retrieve videos from any CMS, including Brightcove Video Cloud, using open APIs
- Analytics integrations – Extensive playback events and built-in plugins enable easy integration with leading analytics and QoS platforms
- Advertising integrations – Support for interactive, pre-rolls, mid-rolls, post-rolls, companions, and overlays, as well as server side ad insertion via Brightcove SSAI plus direct integration with multiple ad servers and networks through plugins
Explore these integrations and many more in the Brightcove Marketplace.
Making video accessible to everyone
- Complies with WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility guidelines – we worked with a third-party accessibility vendor to make sure
Accessibility isn’t just good for viewers; it’s good for businesses too.
FEATURES AND BENEFITS
Built on Video.JS 8
The technological foundations of the player continually evolve, and Player 7 uses the very latest version of the most popular open-source player on the web.
Written in HTML5
The UI of the Brightcove Player is written entirely in HTML5 for a consistent look and user experience across mobile and desktop devices.
APIs and SDKs
We have APIs for player configuration and publishing with the most-up-to-date marketplace and native Android and iOS iterations.
VHS3
Player 7 uses a powerful and full-featured open-source playback engine that supports HLS and DASH.
Viewability
Be certain your content (and your money) are producing impactful engagements.
ABR algorithms
Reduce bandwidth usage while improving overall video quality — ABR algorithms do both.
READY TO GET STARTED?
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