Advanced Embedding
1.0 | Embed-Code Parameters Most playout settings can be overridden by embed-code parameters. Moreover, a selected subset of settings can...
Developers
Please find our technical documentation below.
Advanced Player Settings
JSON-LD Tagging
The player supports JSON-LD tagging. A JSON-LD block is injected in the <head>, containing either a schema.org VideoObject, an schema.org...Player Developer Options
1.0 Developer Options The Developer options can be found by selecting the Playout and navigating to the Miscellaneous tab. URL...
Player API
Events, Modes and Phases
The player communicates its current state through various events and keeps track of assorted modes and phases. Events can be...Methods
The Blue Billywig Player API has many functionalities. The list below shows all the methods that can be called on...Live Platform Documentation
Please find our Live Platform Documentation here.
Advanced topics
Upload directly to Amazon S3
The following example using fineuploader is mostly based on the documentation available at https://docs.fineuploader.com/. Example code can be found here...oEmbed Service
The oEmbed Service delivers a full media embed code from a URL. The default output of the oEmbed Service is...Enabling Interactive Transcript
Interactive transcripts use .srt files to provide a written rendering of spoken phrases and a textual description of sounds. The...Content Security Policy (CSP)
Content Security Policy (CSP) refers to an extra layer of security to prevent attacks such as Cross Site Scripting (XSS)....
Native Player SDK
Web Based Mobile SDK
Android Player SDK Guide (deprecated)
1.0 | Introduction Use our Android component to easily implement parts of our video management system in your Android apps....iOS Player SDK Guide (deprecated)
1.0 | Introduction Use our iOS component to easily implement parts of our video management system in your iOS apps....iOS WebView Guide (deprecated)
1.0 | Embedding the player in a WKWebView To embed the player in a WKWebView in iOS, visit: https://developer.apple.com/reference/webkit/wkwebview 2.0...
SAPI Reference Guide
Get started with SAPI
SAPI is the “Server API” that can be used to manage, publish and retrieve content from (web) applications. The SAPI Reference...API key management
Use an API key to create custom applications with Blue Billywig’s API. An API key contains a “shared secret” that.../sapi/audiotrack
The /sapi/audiotrack endpoint is used for managing Audiotracks. Audiotracks can be used to enrich a Media Clip with additional (mostly.../sapi/awsupload
The Blue Billywig Online Video Platform relies on AWS S3 for its file storage. AWS S3 is an extremely scalable.../sapi/language
The /sapi/language endpoint is a read-only endpoint that lists the configured set of languages for the current publication. 1.0 |.../sapi/cliplist or /sapi/playlist)
/sapi/cliplist is the endpoint for managing playlists and smart playlists. Playlists are static lists containing Media Clips. Smart playlists contain.../sapi/embedcode
Use the /sapi/embedcode endpoint (read-only) to programmatically retrieve the embed code for a content object from the Online Video Platform.../sapi/mediaclip
/sapi/mediaclip is the endpoint for managing clip metadata. Media Clips are containers that combine: File/stream references Metadata References to other.../sapi/mediaasset
The /sapi/mediaasset endpoint is used for managing file/stream references, also referred to as “assets”. 1.0 | Object structure { id: "1533119035263115", status:.../sapi/playout
/sapi/playout is the endpoint for managing Playouts (player configurations). A Playout is stored as an object with a list of.../sapi/publication
A Blue Billywig Online Video Platform publication represents a set of video content and settings for one customer, website or.../sapi/subtitle
The /sapi/subtitle endpoint is used for managing subtitle tracks. Subtitle tracks can be used to enrich a mediaclip with additional.../sapi/transcoding
/sapi/transcoding is a read-only endpoint for the purpose of retrieving transcoding status and progress information. The status property of a...
RPC
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