Video Player v7

A recode of the video player, upgrading brightcove to version 7 and elminating all but essential customizations/features:

  • age gate
  • heartbeat analyitcs
  • different bc players for environments (bleeding-edge for dev,qa auto updated major for prod)
player id env
WAPuItek9 Prod
7JuE5DqUiM Dev & QA

design goal: abstract brightcove and possibly delay fetch of bc player code until after first interaction. provide a single centralized way to play video on the site for all contexts/use-cases

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Notes

  • perhaps a single-page-app style pattern for the video page aka immersive experience, to avoid the autoplay fails associated with page-load