There is a problem 
with media players.
OSMF
Media Players

The Solution?
CDNs
Akami
Lime Light
Edge Cast
Vital Stream
Level3
Amazon
CDNetworks
Internap
J Stream
Media Melon
Streaming Media Hosting
Yacast Media
Advertising
Analytics
Omniture
Google
comScore
Convivia
Anvato
THEY 
ALL HAVE
Custom Implementations!
Client Needs 
& Changes
OSMF Plugins!
FreeWheel
Tremor Media
Videoplaza
Google
Quantcast
Tubemogul
Existing Plugins
Advertising
Analytics and QOS
Content Delivery
Using Plugins
MediaFactory (DefaultMediaFactory)
pluginLoad & pluginLoadError events
Create a resource (MediaResourceBase) to load the plugin
static - PluginInfoResource
dynamic - URLResource
Call the loadPlugin() on the MediaFactory passing in the resource
Samples
Building OSMF Plugins
Tells the media player:
What types of Elements the plugin can handle
How to create MediaElements
The initializePlugin() method is called once the plugin has been successfully loaded
This is where you can pass in data to the plugin via Metadata
Types of Plugins:
Standard or MediaElement plug-in
Proxy plugin
There are 2 sub-types of the standard plugin
Custom MediaElement plug-in
Built-in MediaElement plugin
Allows the developer to non-invasively alter the behavior of the created MediaElements
You can also adjust the MediaElement that is returned to the player - Provide a ParallelElement with children.
Provides the description of what types of media the plug-in can handle as well as how to create the MediaElement
Questions?
What is a OSMF Plug-in?
PluginInfo
MediaFactoryItem
Sample Plugin
Reference Plugin
Depends on having a reference to the MediaElements created by the MediaFactory.
Provide the mediaElementCreationNotificationFunction() to create a reference plug-in
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