January 25th, 2012

New iGoogle Gadget from Kaltura Exchange Labs

by Luda Ruditsky

Have you thought about having your Kaltura videos right inside your iGoogle page next to your daily news and weather updates?

With the Kaltura iGoogle gadget from the Kaltura Exchange Lab you can watch your favorite videos in your iGoogle page and/or use this gadget as a reference code to get started with implementing your application using OpenSocial and Kaltura API.

What is Kaltura’s iGoogle gadget?

The Kaltura iGoogle gadget is an OpenSocial gadget which allows watching Kaltura videos right inside your iGoogle page.

Kaltura iGoogle Gadget
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January 18th, 2012

The Quest for the Best

by Shlomit.Shapira

Kaltura is constantly hiring new talent!

Kaltura PS Wants You

Today I’d like to tell you a little about the open position in our elite Professional Services developer team .

Meet Eitan Avgil, one of Kaltura’s leading Professional Services developers, we caught up with Eitan to hear firsthand what it’s like to work on the team:

What did you do at Kaltura before joining the Professional Services (PS) team?

E: I was a senior front-end core developer. I developed Kaltura’s Dynamic Player (KDP) versions 1-2.5, the Kaltura Application Studio, and many plugins and 3rd party integrations.

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January 10th, 2012

Kaltura Exchange site got refreshed and improved look

by Luda Ruditsky

We have given the Kaltura Exchange web site a makeover to better serve our partners.

For those of you who are not familiar with it, the Kaltura Exchange is the virtual marketplace of video-related apps, plugins and services related to the Kaltura platform, a collection of free and paid solutions and services that extend the Kaltura Video Platform functionality.

The new site is designed to better cater to Kaltura publishers and users and it includes a new look and a new categorized search, which make it easier to find and evaluate solutions. Any ISV or developer can become a Kaltura Partner and expose their video solutions and services to Kaltura’s customer community and partner ecosystem by following the simple steps presented on the site.

Kaltura Exchange Site Images

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January 9th, 2012

Using Kaltura APIs in Native iOS Apps

by Eran.Kornblau

We have launched a new Objective C / Cocoa client library!

As you know, the Kaltura server provides an API that can be used to access all its functionality. These APIs are REST based (or REST-ful), this means that in order to execute an API call, you can just retrieve a URL, like you’d open a webpage.
Any language that can retrieve data from a URL can work with our system, meaning almost all possible programming languages.

However, in practice it would require a fair amount of effort to put together the correct URLs and to interpret the results that come back. This is where client libraries come in. These libraries are created by Kaltura in a variety of programming languages, to make it easier to use the Kaltura API.  Also, as experts in our own APIs, we create these in the best possible way, so everything should work faster and better.

All our client libraries are available to download here (or under http://[YourKalturaServer]/api_v3/testme/client-libs.php).

The new objective C library enables native iOS / Mac-OS applications to use the Kaltura API. As all other client libraries, this library is auto-generated, and therefore always updated with the latest API changes. This library is bundled with a static library Xcode project, for easy integration with existing projects.

Kaltura on iPhone

 

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January 3rd, 2012

Editing Videos: Trimming & Clipping

by Vitaly.Shter

This is the first post in a series of posts about Kaltura’s time-based features such as in-video chapters, advertisement cue-points, and more. With Kaltura’s easy-to-use clipping and trimming tools within the KMC, you can easily create highlight reels from a long piece of content. Potential use cases include editors creating “Top Moment” highlights from sports footage, top quotes from a keynote speech, or highlights of specific topics in a recorded lecture at a university.

Kaltura’s trimming feature allows you to replace the original file, while our clipping tool creates a new entry in addition to the original file. Editing can be performed very accurately, at a frame level or a millisecond level of granularity. Every clip creates a new video file that is encoded to multiple flavors, can be downloaded, distributed and played back on any device.

Clipping and trimming is a great way to reduce content drop off, by making your videos shorter, clearer and to the point!

This video tutorial will show you how to use Kaltura’s trimming and clipping tools. Try it for yourself, start a free trial account. Stay tuned for our next blog post on another time-based feature: advertisement cue points.

 

open source video, online video platform, video streaming, video solutions
Clipping and Trimming

 

December 25th, 2011

RTMP VOD and Live Streaming Using Red5 and Kaltura CE 4

by Roni Cohen

This post assumes you have Kaltura CE4 and Red5  installed and configured for webcam recording, if you don’t read this post.

In this final video post about Kaltura CE4 and Red5 integration, we will show how to enable RTMP delivery and live streaming.

 

open source video, online video platform, video streaming, video solutions
RTMP delivery and live streaming using Red5

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December 23rd, 2011

Webcam Recording On Kaltura CE4 Using Red5

by Roni Cohen

This post assumes you have a working Kaltura CE 4.0 server. To easily install CE4 check out “How to setup Kaltura CE 4.0 VMWare image in 15 minutes“.

Welcome to the second video tutorial in our video posts series on installing and using Kaltura CE 4.0.

In this post, we show how to use a webcam to capture video using the Kaltura Contribution Wizard in CE 4 and the open source Red5 media server. As always we try to keep the knowledge and steps as general as we can so the guide will fit any Kaltura installation (VMWare, Cloud, Install, On Prem, etc.).

Note, that different Linux distributions (Debian or Fedora) behave differently and often use different commands. While the below installation steps are the same, the specific commands may vary between distros (for example, in CentOS we use yum to install packages, while in Ubuntu the command will most likely be apt-get).

This video tutorial will guide you through installation of the Red5server and its configuration in Kaltura CE 4.0 for enabling webcam recording.

open source video, online video platform, video streaming, video solutions
Red5 Installation and Webcam Support

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December 21st, 2011

Go Global with Kaltura Multi-Lingual Captions

by Vitaly.Shter

Kaltura has extended and improved support for multi lingual captions, allowing you to upload SRT or timed-text caption files directly to the KMC, in multiple languages and formats. Using multi-lingual captions, you can extend your reach to new audiences and geographies, increasing the number of views, click-through rates and monetization.


Captions Search App


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December 20th, 2011

Media Player UI Modifications Using UIVars

by Yaron Shapira and Mary Zvi

What are UIVars and Why should you care…

The Kaltura Players are built on a framework of an XML based flexible and customizable UI.

If you just read the above line and remained wondering, worry not! you don’t even have to be a developer to be able to modify player features by yourself, add plugins, modify skins or behaviors. Using the Player Studio, one can create as many Player instances that feature different styles, options and behaviors.

To simplify the management of many of the player features, Kaltura has implemented the “UIVars” to override and configure player features.

Kaltura UIVars are an incredibly powerful feature of the Kaltura Players which allows publishers to pre-set or override the value of any FlasVar (object level parameters), show, hide and disable existing UI element, add new plugins and UI elements to an existing player and modify attributes of all the player elements.

FlashVars are configuration variables that are set to the Kaltura Player in the HTML embed code (works for “regular” static embed, server-generated embed or JavaScript-generated embed).  A list of all the Kaltura Player FlashVars.

This post will take the reader through utilizing the Kaltura Players UIVars functionality and share a collection of the most common use cases that Kaltura’s customers came across with and how these can be easily achieved through the use of UIVars.

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December 18th, 2011

How To Increase Video SEO Using In-Video Chapters Driven By Cue-Points

by Roni Cohen

In the last post in Maximizing video SEO series we discussed how to take advantage of Kaltura’s platform and to make search engines understand the videos on your site.

This post will guide you how to make search engines identify your video chapters, thus recognizing more data from your video and increasing your video SEO.

 

open source video, online video platform, video streaming, video solutions

Increase Video SEO using Chapters

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