Brightcove Player Information Modal
View player information
You display the player information by right-clicking on the player and selecting Player Information, as shown in this screenshot.
Once you select Player Information you will see the modal window containing information about the player, as shown in this screenshot. Details for each field are shown below the screenshot.
Player Information
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Brightcove Player Version | The version of the Brightcove Player used |
| Video.js Version | The Video.js version on which this version of Brightcove Player is built upon |
| Account ID | Your Video Cloud account ID |
| Player ID | ID of the player used |
| Embed ID | If the value is default it means the player is not a child player; if the value is not default, it is the ID of the parent of the player |
| Application ID | The application ID is used to differentiate multiple uses of a single player on different web pages for analytics reasons; it is invisible to the user. |
Media Information
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Current Media Type | Type of the video/media in the player |
| DRM Key System | If the video/media in the player is encoded with Digital Rights Management, the key system being used; one of Google Widevine, Apple FairPlay or Microsoft PlayReady |
| Video ID | The Video Cloud ID of the video/media in the player |
| Video Name | The Video Cloud name of the video/media in the player |
Player Plugins
Only Brightcove supplied plugins that are part of the player configuration will appear in this section. If you add a Brightcove plugin in an HTML page's JavaScript, it will NOT appear in the list. Customer developed plugins, even if listed as part of the player's configuration, will NOT appear.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Name | Name of the plugin |
| Version | Version of the plugin used in the player |
| Active? | A plugin being active means it has been initialized on the player (e.g. by calling player.pip() either automatically or manually); a plugin may be available, but not active on a player |
Playback Engine
- Library Engines - Playback technologies used and associated versions
- Statistics
Name Description Current Bandwidth The measured bytes per second Media Bytes Transferred The number of bytes of media downloaded so far Media Requests The number of segments loaded so far Media Transfer Duration The total time spent downloading media Rendition Width The width of the rendition downloaded to the player Rendition Height The height of the rendition downloaded to the player
Device Capabilities
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Media Source Extensions (MSE) | Whether or not the device/browser supports MSE |
| Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) | Whether or not the device/browser supports EME |
| Widevine | Whether or not the device/browser supports Widevine DRM |
| PlayReady | Whether or not the device/browser supports PlayReady DRM |
| FairPlay | Whether or not the device/browser supports FairPlay DRM |
Device Format Support
The different video/media formats and whether the player can play those formats. Note that the value Probably is dictated by the HTML standard:
For full details see MIME types section of HTML Standards document.
Close the modal window
You close the modal either pressing the ESC key or by clicking on the close icon at the top-right.
Alter the context menu
You can alter the menu that appears on right-click, called the context menu. To do this you must alter the configuration of your player. You can do this in two ways:
- Using Studio's JSON Editor from the PLAYERS module.
- A tool to perform the configuration change is curl.
The two changes you can make, and how to affect them, are shown here.
Prevent the menu appearing
If you wish to prevent the player information context menu from appearing at all, you can do one of the following:
Use the JSON Editor
Alter the player's configuration by adding the highlighted property (be sure to save the change):
Use curl
curl \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--user $EMAIL \
--request PATCH \
--data '{
"context_menu": false
}' \
https://players.api.brightcove.com/v2/accounts/$ACCOUNT_ID/players/$PLAYER_ID/configuration
Prevent the Brightcove menu option
If you wish to prevent the About Brightcove menu option from appearing, you can do one of the following:
Use the JSON Editor
Alter the player's configuration by adding the highlighted property (be sure to save the change):
Use curl
curl \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--user $EMAIL \
--request PATCH \
--data '{
"context_menu": {
"brightcove_branding": false
}
}' \
https://players.api.brightcove.com/v2/accounts/$ACCOUNT_ID/players/$PLAYER_ID/configuration