This guide is applicable for Kaltura CE version 5.0.0
Release Date
January 26, 2012
Kaltura CE
Kaltura provides the world’s first Open Source Online Video Platform. Over 150,000 media and entertainment companies, enterprises, SMBs, educational institutions, service providers, platform vendors, and system integrators use Kaltura’s flexible platform to enhance their websites, web-services, and web-platforms with advanced customized video, photo and audio functionalities. Kaltura’s features and products enable you to easily deploy custom work-flows involving video creation, ingestion, publishing, management, syndication, engagement, monetization, and analysis.
Kaltura CE is Kaltura's free, open-source, self-hosted version of the video platform, supported by the Kaltura Community. The Community Edition is developed through the combined efforts of Kaltura and the community. The platform and its source code are available for free at www.kaltura.org.
Kaltura CE Version 5.0
Kaltura CE version 5.0 is based on the Eagle release of the Kaltura online video platform. Version 5.0 provides new features, infrastructure enhancements, and new API services.
Supported/Tested OS
Kaltura CE was tested on the CentOS 6.2/64bit operating system.
While it is possible to install Kaltura CE on other Linux distributions and on a 32-bit server, these configurations were not tested by Kaltura.
New Features and Functionalities
Version 5.0 includes the following main new features and infrastructure changes.
- New Upload Tab - Upload and prepare media entries directly from the main Kaltura Management Console (KMC) menu, regardless of the page you are working on.
- Upload Control - Manage and control your uploads, set priorities, track progress, and continue working in the KMC while your uploads continue to process in the background.
- In Video Search - Use Kaltura’s new In Video Search API to search for a specific phrase in a library of videos and find the exact point in the video where the phrase appears.
- Multilingual Captions - Upload caption files directly to the KMC in different languages and formats. Allow users to select their preferred language and caption setting.
- Clipping and Trimming - Create clips from existing videos. By setting in and out points, each clip becomes an individual media entry encoded in multiple flavors that can be downloaded, distributed, and played on any device. You can also simply trim the length of a video. You can clip and trim directly from the KMC.
- Advertising - Insert cue-points and add mid-roll and overlay ads in any video.
- Metadata Improvements and Related Files - Manage multiple metadata schemas and append related documents to media entries.
- Advanced Ingestion Capabilities:
- Control the order of ingestion. Create Draft Entries with metadata and attach the video later.
- Use your own transcoders and ingest the output flavors to Kaltura.
- Host videos at your preferred location and link to Kaltura.
- Automate content ingestion using Drop Folders.
- Seamlessly replace video assets for a Kaltura entry. Media is replaced in all live and syndicated players.
For more information, please refer to:
- Kaltura Management Console (KMC) User Manual, included in the software package
- Kaltura Eagle Release – What’s New?
Features that Require Third Party Integration
Some features offered in conjunction with the Kaltura CE video platform software require integration with third party software or hardware. The table describes the features and the customization and third party software that may be required.
|
Premium Feature |
Description |
Required 3rd Party Software |
|
Akamai HD Network and Apple HTTP streaming |
Requires content delivery through Akamai |
Akamai CDN account |
|
Analytics – for capturing CDN bandwidth usage |
CDN log integration is needed (Version 5.0 already is integrated with CDN logs of Akamai, limelight, level3). |
CDN account |
|
RTMP delivery or adaptive bit rate delivery |
Requires CDN/FMS integration |
CDN or FMS |
|
User geo-distribution analytics and/or access control |
Requires ip2location DB license |
|
|
Side-by-side video and PowerPoint |
Ability to show a dual-head display. For example, enable the viewer of interactive lectures to skip between slides and the video automatically seeks the correct location. Customization includes setting up a licensed windows server and adding required conversion flavors. |
Microsoft 2008 server (See Microsoft Document Server Requirements below) |
|
Webcam recorder widget |
Allows users to record video directly from a webcam and to add metadata |
If FMS, use only FMS Interactive server v3.5 |
|
HTTPS encryption for login |
Requires the creation of an HTTPS certificate by the customer and an integration effort. |
You can install certificates either on the load balancer or directly on the servers. |
|
Single sign-on (SSO) integration; |
Requires integration with an external authentication server to enable external user management and access to already logged in users. |
Prerequisite: authentication server details. |
|
RTMP from FMS |
Only for delivering video on demand. |
For Red5/Wowza/FMS. |
|
In Video Search |
Enables searching across all videos in your system using the Kaltura API and video caption indexing. |
Requires designing and coding a search page |
|
Live streaming |
Live streaming using a different media server than the included Akamai. |
For Akamai, requires configuration only. |
|
KMC localization |
Translation of all KMC strings, providing a localized experience for the KMC. |
Requires a translator for all email and KMC texts, and providing the translated content to Kaltura. |
|
Custom player skins |
Customize the look, feel, and functionality of the Kaltura player. |
Requires graphic design, which Kaltura can provide. |
Known Issues
Version 5.0 includes the following known issues.
|
ID |
Description |
|
Q 1291 |
Switching to full screen while displaying a post roll or a mid-roll overlay ad causes the ad to visibly float to the correct position, instead of immediately reappearing in the correct position. |
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Q 1290 |
In certain conditions, switching to full screen mode while displaying an overlay ad causes the overlay ad to disappear. |
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Q 1293 |
baseEntry->add “type” parameters is deprecated in the API: |
|
Q 1294 |
Different behaviors for auto-moderation, depending on which API is used: |
|
Q 1311 |
Resizing the player while paused does not immediately resize the captions: |
|
Q 1616 |
Extra post-installation configuration is required for mobile flavors when using any CDN except Akamai or when no CDN is used. |
Microsoft Document Server Requirements
Hardware Requirements
- Minimum 4GB RAM
- 1x4 CPU
- Minimum 80GB hard drive
- Win2k8 Enterprise R2 64 bit
Software Requirements
Installed Microsoft Features
- .NET 3.5.1
- Desktop experience
Prerequisite Software on the Server
- XAMPP 1.7.1 on port 8080
- OpenOffice 3.2.1
- MS Office Professional 2007
- PDF Creator 1.0.2 (standard installation)
- Make PDFCreator the default printer
- Place RunAffinityCmd.exe in C:\
- (Optional) Mediainfo 0.7.29