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What is Brightcove?   How do I link my Brightcove account with Qik? How do I setup my Brightcove Account? Is there a video tutorial for uploading videos to Brightcove? How can I broadcast live to the Brightcove player? Where can I seek help on Brightcove?

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Answers:

What is Brightcove?  

   Brightcove is the leading online video platform used by media companies, business and organizations

   worldwide to publish and distribute video on the web. Their platform is used by hundreds of professional

   publishers to power online video initiatives that reach over a hundred internet users every month, 

 

How do I link my Brightcove account with Qik?

 

   We can help you link your brightcove account with your Qik account. Just send us an email at brightcove@qik.com

 

How do I setup my Brightcove Account?

 

   Setting up your Brightcove account is simple. To get started, log into your Qik account and hit the

   "edit networks" tab.  Click on the Brightcove icon. You will require both read

   and write publisher token, If you do not have a "publisher token", you will have to request one by clicking on "Get them here". (See picture below)

 

   

 

   Fill up the form and indicate "Get Qik Brightcove Token" under the subject title. Submit the support request and 

   you should receive the token shortly in your inbox. ( See picture below)

 

   

 

   Return to the "edit networks" page and enter both read and write tokens into the boxes. Do remember to 

   create a default tag, These tags allow you to automatically organize all mobile content created by each user

   in the Brightcove media module. There is an option to "send all public videos" to Brightcove, however, on

   certain phones, there is the ability to share videos to brightcove manaually. Remember to hit save changes. 

 

  Once that is done, your brghtcove account is now setup with your Qik account.

  You can start streaming videos to brightcove and it will appear under the media module. 

 

Is there a video tutorial for uploading videos to Brightcove?

 

   A video tutorial has been created and has been embedded here:

 

 

 

How can I broadcast live to the Brightcove player?

 

A plugin is available for Brightcove users to play live Qik videos from the Brightcove player. A Qik account is required for this purpose. If you don't already have a Qik account - you can signup for one at http://qik.com/signup.

 

The integration consists of a BEML template that loads a custom swf component that plays the live Qik video when the person is streaming live. The controls available for this player are:

• Play / Pause: This is used to play or pause the live video

• Mute / Unmute: This is used to mute / unmute the audio from the video

 

You can start streamling live to Brightcove in just 3 simple steps as described below. 

 

Step One: Create Brightcove Template

The first step is to create a new template in the publishing section of the Brightcove studio.

 

 

The code for the sample template is provided below.

 

<Runtime>
  <Theme name="Deluxe" style="Light"/>
  <Layout>
    <SWFLoader id="qikLive" source="http://qik.com/swfs/qikLiveModule.swf?3" width="500" height="380" 
             data="autoplay=true, username=broydemo"/>
    <MediaControls id="mediaControls" height="34" x="0" y="380">
      <HBox width="485" height="19" x="5" y="13" gutter="10">
        <ToggleButton id="playButton" showBack="false" iconName="play" toggledIconName="pause" label="PLAY" 
             toggledLabel="STOP" tooltip="Play Live" toggledTooltip="Stop Live" height="19" autoSize="true" 
             lockHeight="true" iconAlignmentH="left" labelAlignmentH="left" labelOffsetX="20" 
             click="{qikLive.callSWFMethod('togglePlay')}"/>
        <Spacer/>
        <ToggleButton id="volumeButton" showBack="false" iconName="volume" tooltip="Mute sound" width="19" height="17" 
             toggledIconName="muted" click="{qikLive.callSWFMethod('toggleMute')}"/>
      </HBox>
    </MediaControls>
  </Layout>
</Runtime>
  

 

This example player has dimensions of 500x380. You may customize the size of the player at this point. If you do please do note that:

 

• The size of the player will be determined by the size specified in the Edit Template dialog box

• The size of the video will be the size specified in the SWFLoader tag

• The dimensions specified for the MediaControls tag determines the size of the media control bar

 

 

To associate your Qik account to this player, specify your Qik username in the "data" attribute of the SWFLoader tag. Your Qik username is the username you use to login to your Qik account and is also part of your Qik profile URL (http://qik.com/yourusername).

 

Step Two: Create the Player

The next step is to create a new player and assign it the new template. This is pretty straightforward, the only customization that is necessary is enabling the ActionScript / JavaScript API in the 'Edit Settings' dialog of the Brightcove studio for that player. This is required to enable the interaction between Qik and the Brightcove API.

 

 

Step Three: Embed the Player

The final step is to embed the player created in Step 2 to your own web page. To get the embed code press the button "Get Code" in the Players page of the Brightcove studio. This code then has to be customized as follows:

 

• Add a parameter 'isVid' with a value of 'true'. This allows Brightcove's MediaControls to show up independently of the Brightcove video player which is missing from that template.

 

Please see example below on what the resulting code for Javascript would look like. Please note that you have to customize your own tag for this, since the 'playerID' and 'publisherID' parameters are specific to your account.

 

 

 

That's it - you are all set! Now, just start Qik on your mobile phone and go live to your Brightcove player.

 

Where can I seek help on Brightcove?

 

If you have any questios, please feel free to send an email to Brightcove@qik.com.