Create faster, more distinctive players with the PDK

thePlatform’s Player Dev Kit has everything you need to build your own unique, Flash-based broadband video player. Completely documented and fully customizable, the Player Dev Kit provides an advanced player, that when paired with your content, will create a compelling viewing experience for your audience.

Create distinctive player experiences

  • Our skinning model is smart and easy to work with. Use HTML and CSS to customize our templates and build compelling players for your site, or for distribution. For Flash developers, the options to customize player layouts and user experiences are endless. For mobile developers we have a customizable Flash-based mobile layouts available for all skins.
  • The Player Dev Kit offers the ability to present several content feeds in one player. Listing categories like New Releases, Top Rated, Most Viewed, etc., is easy to achieve. You can even display multiple video players in the same canvas.
  • Player Dev Kit allows for complete customization of the control rack, including the ability to add multiple rows of controls, change the direction of the volume bar from horizontal to vertical, add floating playback controls that come and go seamlessly, move your menu items to Left, Right, Top, Bottom, and Floating.
  • Add end cards with related items or create your own custom cards to include 3rd party application interfaces, content forms, or any other content you want to integrate. The advanced player options of the Player Dev Kit’s prebuilt Flash controls give you increased functionality without having to be a Flash developer.
  • Play video content anywhere including Windows and Apple computers with Flash, Android 2.2+ mobile devices with an optimized mobile Flash environment, and to iPhone and iPad devices with HTML 5.

Great playback performance

  • Player Dev Kit is optimized for speed, flexibility, and back-end functionality, which dramatically improves the playback experience and helps you keep up with online video viewing trends.
  • The component delivery process loads individual player components into the player canvas more efficiently. As a result, players launch faster than ever before.
  • The Player Dev Kit offers numerous options for loading content into the player more quickly with pre-warming and automatic play features, and FMS adaptive streaming.

Check out our Social Media capabilities in the player below:

Your audience becomes your advocate

  • The Player Dev Kit offers a multitude of viral distribution options. Enhanced embedding capabilities allow you to place your entire video player experience with all of its features, add-ins, and components into a single Adobe Flash file for distribution to sites like social networks, blogs, and even your affiliates.
  • Share to more social media sites including Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Windows Live, Yahoo! Buzz, VodPod.
  • Share with Twitter with advanced features such as support for hash tags and short URLs.
  • Share with ‘email to a friend’, RSS feeds, and link embeds to your own website.
  • Share specific video clips with targeted video clipping tools that allow users to clip and send to any supported location.
  • Maintain consistent business policies on media that is shared.
  • Engage your audience with the Community Toolkit. Comments, ratings, tags, favorites, play lists, and polls allow audience members to rate, save, and discover new content.