Brightcove Is Horrible
Brightcove. Why the fuck do they even exist?
First, the embedding is horrible. It takes a while for the video player to load. Even if you had just had that page open before, it's still going to take about 10 seconds to come up. How long does YouTube take? Next to none. I don't ever have to see some ugly loading cube-like thing everytime I want to see something. Or see it the whole time in Konqueror, and I'll assume Safari, since the video player never even loads. Good show.
And if I want to link to it or embed it somewhere else, the code comes up inside of the flash player. I guess the fact that working with text in flash is just about as annoying as having bees sting your eyes. Copy code. Wait, it didn't copy. Copy code. I think it worked, no wait, it didn't. Copy. Ok it worked, wait, fuck, it's code for the other movie. WTF?
Also, instead of calling RSS RSS. They call it "Takeout." It even has an RSS logo on a Chinese takeout box. Yup, it's just as much fun as ordering Chinese takeout. And it makes you feel just as bad after using it. They think it's a good plan to put the amount of uploaded videos in the title of the feed. Why? Who the fuck knows. Maybe they want to allow people to know the count of videos from the feed, but were too stupid to put another XML attribute. Here's what the feed says in Google Reader:
"Brightcove – The Pbstar Channel – 17 Uploaded Videos" has no unread items.
Yup, I guess the 17 uploaded videos will never change, and I'll never have any more videos to see.
And what's even worse is that they only show you a thumbnail of the video. WTF? Don't think your really shitty business model, see none, won't last without people always viewing your site? Screw you guys, I'm going home, errr, back to YouTube, and they don't even have RSS. I'll gladly wait until someone uploads your video over there in order to bypass your crap.
But I guess since it's beta, it can be complete crap. And businesses actually use them? I guess they don't care as long as they get a cut of the ad revenue!!! OMG, Moneys!!! I like money. And what better way to be somewhere in the third to fifth in line to get your cut. That completely makes up for the horribleness that it is.
Add, the ever-annoying 'your connection is not fast enough' dialog box that will drive you mad if you have more than 3 players on a page. Or the processor-hungry transparency effects. Or the hidden volume bar.
I assume that the player doesn't cache, so you get to wait 10 seconds after a refresh. The player sucks.