Kaltura

The integration of Kaltura with Tiki

The aims of this project

What is Kultura

Overview

1. Customized Video Player: Kaltura's Video Player allows our clients to completely skin & brand their player for the desired look and feel of their choice. Our player can also integrate a variety of 3rd party components, and can be easily extended to match customer specific functionality. For example ¼, ½, or full size scalability via our OSP.
2. Management Console: The Kaltura Management Console (KMC) enables our clients to bulk upload their video by either using a simple mass-upload tool, or via FTP for ease of use upload so that their video can be stored, streamed, and modified at the drop of a dime via our OSP.
3. Reporting & Analytics: Kaltura's reporting and analytics are provided via the KMC. Our clients receive detailed reports such as demographics on their videos, viewing statistics such as how long each video is viewed for, where the viewers originate and more. The reporting also drills down to the API level, as well as tracking our clients' bandwidth usage and capacity per their allotment per month via our OSP.
4. Channel Building and Playlist: Kaltura's Channel Building and Playlist widgets allow our clients to break up their content into groups or categories via our digital media guide through our KMC and OSP.
5. Transcoding: Kaltura's Transcoding process allows for User Generated Content (UGC), so that our clients can have the flexibility of easily allowing members or users to add, edit or delete their own content onto our client’s web sites via our OSP.
6. Encoding: Kaltura's encoding capabilities provide our clients with on-the-fly encoding of their content and video into FLV files for instant streaming without having to purchase software to encode their content on their own; or without having to outsource the encoding job to a third party. This is all done through our OSP.
7. Ad Management: Kaltura's ad management features enable our clients to include banner ads, pre roll video, and post roll video through our custom Video Player. All this is done via our OSP.
8. Remixing: Kaltura's Online Video Editor allows editing, adding and remixing of rich-media content. All this is done via our OSP.
9. Customized Widget Extensions: Kaltura's customized widget extensions are our ancillary services that provide additional feature/functionality to the eight classes of service listed above. These services include subtitling, HD STREAMING, content sharing, social book marking, content discovery, virtual distribution, bubble commenting, dynamic overlaying, geo filtering, and search engine optimization via our OSP.

Examples

Lots of other examples

The technical resources we have

• Kaltura's reference PHP implementation
• Nelson's existing work on integration with Tiki
• The people at Kaltura seem very open and helpful
• Kaltur provide, for free, a hosting account for the video to allow us to concentrate on the software development without the need to worry about setting up a server.
• Matthew will provide a server on the internet (2G RAM, FreeBSD, unlimited bandwidth and root access) for test and demonstration purposes.
• Jonny who knows (or can find out) anything about Tiki!

The personnel we have available

The development plan

1. Create a plan of development
2. Win funding from Google
3. Develop software
4. Test on a real project

The Alpha/Beta test projects

Kaltura Objects

Code

Wishlist

Bugs

• 4.2 and 5x Beta2: go to tiki-list_kaltura_entries.php?list=media, then "view" takes me to: tiki-kaltura_video.php?mediaId=jk42wq4wcg , but no video is shown. solved with better UI
• 4.2 and 5x Beta2: after editing an entry (tiki-kaltura_video.php?mediaId=0_92cedomf&action=edit), I get a blank page instead of a successful save
  • LP added error reporting and now it consistently reports "Invalid response provided by the kaltura server. Please retry."
    • Even with retries, I always get this, so it's presumably not a Kaltura server error but something incorrect we are sending
      • Now I get: "Invalid response provided by the kaltura server. Please retry. The property "accessControlId" is updatable with admin session only"
• 4.2 and 5x Beta2: tiki-list_kaltura_entries.php?list=mix&view=browse has a huge blank Flash zone and seems to be missing something solved with better UI
• 4.2 and 5x Beta2: from tiki-kaltura_video.php?action=remix&mixId=0_my13u3dv, clicking "Change Details" generates a blank screen when saving.
  • when error reporting is on: Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'KalturaException' with message 'The property "categories" is updatable with admin session only' in lib/videogals/KalturaClientBase_v3.php:313 Stack trace: #0 lib/videogals/KalturaClient_v3.php(3486): KalturaClientBase->throwExceptionIfError(Array) #1 tiki-kaltura_video.php(163): KalturaMixingService->update('dllzxbd8hj', Object(KalturaMixEntry)) #2 {main} thrown in lib/videogals/KalturaClientBase_v3.php on line 313
  • LP added error reporting and now it consistently reports "Invalid response provided by the kaltura server. Please retry."
    • Even with retries, I always get this, so it's presumably not a Kaltura server error but something incorrect we are sending
      • Still broken after r27130? It's good for JB now confirmed fixed
• 4.2 and 5x Beta2: tiki-kaltura_video.php is blank (no content, just a link to "List Entries")
  • I added a bit of text saying "No action specified" - maybe it should redirect to the list when not given anything to do? (or maybe should be merged into the same file?)
• 5x tiki-list_kaltura_entries.php?list=media -> when checking 2 items and clicking "create remix", the first item is sent twice to the re-mixer instead of two separate items fixed in r27134 (?)
• tiki-kaltura_upload.php : after I record a video from the webcam (or upload files), clicking "Finish" does nothing and the button "Next" is not doing anything either. r27153
• After uploading a "are you sure you have rights?" appears - but not if you upload directly into Kaltura's interface - should that be there?
• tiki-kaltura_upload.php : if you search in the "Kaltura" section there, none of "my" videos are listed, and when i click "search your videos" it asks me to log in, but none of credentials i've tried seem to work - this means if you loose the video entries in your tiki database, you can't get them back from Kaltura
  • More on this: It seems you can only see your "own" videos in the entries lists - i.e. ones uploaded to the account by the current $user. Would be more helpful if it used a group name? Or a site-wide id. (using an empty string seems to return nothing)

Questions

• Files such as this one have several http:// links to things we don't control. Is this planned? It seems to me that this is quite risky. If these domains disappear, all Kaltura using sites will be broken.
• Users can only see their own videos. How are they supposed to collaborate? (or maybe a misconfiguration?)
• Where do I get the video ID to use for PluginKaltura?
• When I upload videos, and I pick Kaltura and "Search your videos", it asks for my login. What do I put here? (I try the ones I have and I get "login failed, please try again".

Feature request

• Calling a video which doesn't exist. Ex.: {KALTURA(id="5")}{KALTURA} should give me a warning message (missing video)
• Should be a way to set to our own Kaltura instance (while keeping Kaltura.com one as suggested default)
• Capture from webcam is awesome. How about the same idea but to capture part of the screen? This would make it so easy to embed documentation videos (screencasts)

Administrative

• transfer license handling to Legal Team
• Frenzy follow-up

• Video
• Collaborative Video editing