About
Public YouTube video content and metadata can be added to MediaSpace and KAF applications.
YouTube content can be played on the Kaltura V2 player from version 2.13 and above. To update the player version, refer to How to Update the Kaltura Player to the Latest Version
Because the video itself still ‘resides’ on YouTube, a YouTube entry is treated differently in some ways from a native Kaltura entry.
What is supported?
- Basic and custom metadata
- Sunrise/sunset (scheduled publishing)
- Commenting
- Collaboration (changing owner, adding co-editor and co-publisher)
- Attachments
- Uploading a caption file to Kaltura entry / Requesting captions via REACH
- Replace video (with new YouTube URL)
- Playback analytics
- Video quiz
What is not supported?
- Kaltura REACH auto-captioning
- Changing thumbnail
- Enabling download
- Viewer’s ability to enable/disable YouTube captions (these are the captions associated with the YouTube video)
- Timeline (chapters and slides)
- Trim/Clip
- Playback rate selector
Configure
1. Go to your Configuration Management page, and navigate to the YouTube module. Your link should look like this: https://{your_KMS_URL}/admin/config/tab/youtube.
Please note that enabling the YouTube module will override the 'No' setting for YouTube playback in the Player Studio Integrations settings.
The YouTube page page displays.
2. Configure the following:
enabled - Set to'Yes' to enable the module.
previewPlayer - Enter the Player ID for the player used for YouTube media. Leave blank to use the default player.
replaceYouTubeEntryMessage - This is the message to display when replacing a YouTube entry. The default message is: I confirm that this new external content is similar in essence to the original content which may have already generated views and likes.
3. Click Save.
It is best practice to check current availability of a video ingested to Kaltura but hosted on YouTube. A spinning wheel displays for KMS users if the YouTube video has been erased or unpublished from the YouTube platform.
