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July 26, 2009
Brightcove News: Smaller Players, VAST Support, and Japan
Smaller Players: Our AS3 players have gotten significantly smaller in the last few weeks, with a 22% reduction in the size of an average player. This was done by expanding on some creative "don't load the same class twice" work, and the number includes all bytes that are loaded. The advertising module, which is only loaded in when advertising is enabled, had one of the most significant reductions, and it can be up to 50% smaller.
VAST Support: Brightcove now has great support for the VAST standard, part of the emerging standardization of ad responses from the IAB. I hope to talk about this in more depth in a later blog post and give a more general overview of the many changes going on in rich media advertising.
A Few Other Features: Two releases have happened since I last wrote a news update, both 3.3 and 3.3.1. The 3.3 release has a lot of other goodies in that Jeremy Allaire writes about and which included the VAST support mentioned above. One thing that always feels strange from my side in product notes like this is how much is left out of what we're doing. But then I remember that not a lot of people want to hear about the bug fixes, the automated tests and frameworks, the server growth/stability changes, etc.
Konnichiwa: The backend tools and players are now all fully localized for Japanese.
Live on Saturday the 18th: You can see Manchester City play live if you can go back in time to the 18th. And choose to watch videos online with the ability to go back in time.
Flash on Phones
I'm a week late in my posting on this, but as I've been horribly behind in my posting lately, I'll just ignore that fact. And I still wanted to be able to point out the Flash multi-touch goodness. I can't wait to see the finished APIs and play around with them.
Relatedly, while Brightcove has had an iPhone integration for awhile, I didn't realize that other people were watching video through Skyfire, which will soon be making its way to Blackberry devices.
