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Track Brightcove IFRAME video playback (bonus: with Adobe Launch)

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In a previous blog post, I had described how to use Adobe Experience Platform Launch (or Adobe Launch, as it's more commonly known) to track Brightcove video playback to Adobe Media Analytics. It was part of three-part series on video tracking for Adobe Analytics: Part one: tracking video playback events using Adobe Analytics' Custom Links. Part two: tracking video playback events to Adobe Media Analytics, Adobe's media tracking and reporting solution. Part three: tracking Brightcove video playback events to Adobe Media Analytics, instead of Brightcove's own analytics integration. But those instructions for Brightcove video playback had been written for the advanced <VIDEO-JS> implementation of Brightcove videos into your website. It did not work with Brightcove's more common <IFRAME> implementation. In this guide, I provide instructions and a working script that can detect video playback events from Brightcove's IFrame player. This is wri