Brightcove Player Audience System Requirements

To play downloaded video purchased from a Brightcove Player: Consumers need to have a Windows PC with Windows Media Player (or another player compatible with Windows Media Video 9). Consumers also need a credit card for the sale transaction. More info for publishers who want to distribute video titles using the Pay Media feature



  Windows PC Mac
Operating System:

Windows XP: Service Pack 1, 1a, or 2.0x

Windows 2000: Service Pack 2

MacOS X: 10.3.9 or 10.4.7

CPU:

P3 (minimum)
P4 (recommended)

P4 (recommended)

Speed:

800 MHz (minimum)
1.2 GHz (recommended)

1.33 GHz (recommended)

RAM:

256 MB (minimum)
512 MB (recommended)

512 MB (recommended)

Free Disk Space :

500 MB (minimum)
1 GB (recommended)

500 MB (minimum)
1 GB (recommended)

Screen resolution:

1024 x 768 pixels

1024 x 768 pixels

Internet connection:

Broadband (minimum),
768 kbps or greater (recommended)

Broadband (minimum),
768 kbps or greater (recommended)

Browser:

Firefox
Internet Explorer 6, SP1 or higher

Firefox
Safari 1.3 or higher on OSX 10.3.9
Safari 2.04 or higher on OSX 10.4.7

Flash Player:
(For viewing Player content other than Pay Media video titles)

Flash Player 7 or 8 (minimum),
Flash Player 8 or higher (recommended)

Flash Player 7 or 8 (minimum),
Flash Player 8 or higher (recommended)



About audience viewing of publisher Player content encoded to Flash Player 7 or 8: Nearly 98% of Internet viewers worldwide have a browser that supports the Flash Player. In the rare situation that a viewer’s browser isn’t enabled with the Flash Player yet (or the appropriate version to view your media), the viewer will be prompted to download it when video loads for playback .


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