Adding Brightcove as video provider

You can allow your users to embed videos hosted by Brightcove in their content by specifying the Player ID and Partner ID associated with your Brightcove repository in a custom macro.

If you use Brightcove to host videos and want to make them available for users to post in your community, you need to specify the settings for your site using a macro which you can then enable and disable.

To enable and configure Brightcove video provider:

  1. Upload your videos by using the Brightcove Media Management UI and make sure they're available for viewing.
  2. In the Brightcove media management UI, across from a video, copy the embed codes for the video.
  3. Get the {PLAYER_ID} and {PLAYER_KEY} that identify your site.
  4. In the Admin Console, go to Spaces > Settings > Filters and Macros.
  5. Next to the Brightcove Video Provider Macro click Settings.
  6. On the Render Filter Settings, use the values you obtained from the Brightcove Media Management UI to populate the playerKey and playerID boxes.
    Make sure you select the space where you want to enable this provider. If you want to apply the setting community-wide, select the root space.
  7. Click Save Properties.
  8. On the Filters and Macros page, select On for the Brightcove Video Provider Macro.

With the provider enabled, when your users embed videos from the web in content, they see Brightcove as a video provider option below the embed code field, and can paste video embed code from Brightcove into the field to successfully post and play videos.

Note that when you disable a provider macro that has been enabled previously, videos already embedded from that provider show as disabled.