How to render Brightcove video programmatically using sitecore item

Brightcove and Sitecore using CSharp

It’s very easy to render Brightcove video through HTML as

<iframe src="//players.brightcove.net/4234/default_default/index.html?videoId=1111" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen></iframe>

But do you know how to render it through programmatically?

Let’s suppose you are getting video item id and player id through Sitecore in your MVC view as

var playerHtml = string.Empty;

<div>

@{

    playerHtml = HelperClass.Instance().GetVideoPlayerMarkup(Model.VideoItemGuidId, Model.PlayerGuidId, 170, 300);

}

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://admin.brightcove.com/js/BrightcoveExperiences.js"></script>

@Html.Raw(playerHtml)

<script type="text/javascript">

    brightcove.createExperiences();

</script>

</div>

This view calling GetVideoPlayerMarkup() method which accept 4 parameters – video item id, player item id, video player’s height and width.

You need to include below namespace for using this method

using Sitecore.MediaFramework.Pipelines.MediaGenerateMarkup;

using Sitecore.MediaFramework.Players;

Here is a C# code for this method as

public virtual string GetVideoPlayerMarkup(ID videoItemId, ID playerItemId, int height, int width)

{

    var playerHtml = string.Empty;

    PlayerProperties playerProperties = new PlayerProperties()

    {

        ItemId = videoItemId,

        PlayerId = playerItemId,

        Height = height,

        Width = width

    };

    MediaGenerateMarkupArgs args = new MediaGenerateMarkupArgs()

    {

        MarkupType = MarkupType.Html,

        Properties = playerProperties

    };

    MediaGenerateMarkupPipeline.Run(args);

    if (!args.Aborted)

    {

        playerHtml = args.Result.Html;

    }

    return playerHtml;

}

That’s it. Now when you render this view you will get the Brightcove video on the browser.

I hope you like this Sitecore-Brightcove integration through code. Stay tuned for more Sitecore related articles.

Till that happy Sitecoring :)

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How to download Sitecore media library item on client browser programmatically

Sitecore Media Item Download

One of my friend struggling for downloading PDF file from Sitecore media library on client browser
. So I thought to write a code on the same.

Below code can force any media library item to be downloaded on client browser.

private void DownloadMediaLibraryItem()

{

    //Get Media Item

    var mediaItem = Sitecore.Data.Database.GetDatabase("master").GetItem(new ID("{5D8B8B5B-BD43-4F8E-B1B5-EACA7D78F0DE}"));

    var media = Sitecore.Resources.Media.MediaManager.GetMedia(mediaItem);

    //Get Media Stream in buffer

    var mediaStream = media.GetStream();

    byte[] buffer = new byte[(int)mediaStream.Length];

    mediaStream.Stream.Read(buffer, 0, (int)mediaStream.Length);

    //Send response to browser

    System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.Clear();

    System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.ClearContent();

    System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.ClearHeaders();

    System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream";

    System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("Content-Length", buffer.Length.ToString());

    System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment;filename=" + mediaItem.Name + ".pdf");

    System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.BinaryWrite(buffer);

    System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.Flush();

    System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.End();

}

I hope you like this Sitecore article. Stay tuned for more Sitecore related articles.

Till that happy Sitecoring :)

 
Please leave your comments or share this code if it’s useful for you.