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Accessibility
Overview The Kaltura player is fully accessible and meets the general accessibility requirements. The design includes requirements such as color contrast, focus on fields, fonts. Viewers can control the player options with a standard keyboard (...
Ad Blocker Detection
Overview Ad blockers can deny Kaltura the option of collecting viewership data which could affect features such as certifications (CPE/education), badges, leaderboard, and lead reporting on viewership-based events. Ad blockers can also interfe...
Audio Player Updated
About Kaltura's Audio Player is tailored for audio tracks, while also supporting VOD and Live media entries. For VOD and Live media entry types, the player plays the audio track, omitting the video. Its slim design ensures a sm...
Bumper
Overview Video bumpers are short video clips that typically show the brand or company that your video represents. Video bumpers can be included at the start or end of your content or both. The following video demonstrate a bumper Kaltura ad pos...
Call to Action New
Overview Interact directly with your audience using our Call to Action plugin. Configure interactive messages in your video which can be shown as overlays or toasts with clickable buttons. Make announcements, guide users to more content, invit...
Captions and Audio Tracks
Overview The Kaltura Player supports rendering subtitles and closed captions in VOD and live content. Captions are a text version of the dialog and other sound content of the video. Subtitles are text versions of the video’s dialog and ar...
Cast
Overview The Cast plugin lets you stream your video content from your phone, tablet, or laptop right to your TV or speakers. Features In the case of Google Chromecast, a user can stream video content using a Sender , and play it on (or ca...
Documents New
Overview Introducing the Documents plugin. This feature ensures convenient access to any documents that may have been included in content loaded in the player, for example, as part of a playlist. Additionally, in the event that a document is...
Download
Overview The Download plugin allows users to download video entries (in the flavor(s) they choose), along with the files that are attached to the entries (attachments) and any caption types available directly from within the player. Users can ...
Dual Screen
Overview The Dual Screen plugin enriches the user experience by enabling playback of two synchronized videos or a video and a slide presentation from different sources in one player. While it's commonly seen as two videos displayed sid...
Floating
Overview As the viewer scrolls down, if the player moves out of view, a floating player will pop up and position itself according to the configuration. This enables viewers to engage with both the video content and the article seamlessly. Se...
Hotspots
Overview Hotspots are clickable interactive objects in a video that viewers interact with to further engage with the content. They can serve various purposes, such as acting as a call-to-action, providing additional information, enabling viewe...
Info
Overview Click on the Info icon to obtain information about the video. The following is a sample of the information displayed when the Info icon is clicked. Features The info screen displays the following information for all video ...
Interactive Media Ads (IMA) Plugin - WEB
This article walks you through a quick setup of the IMA Plugin in the Kaltura Management Console (KMC), and then covers some Additional Settings that you may wish to explore. About Ads Advertisements acquired through the IMA Plugin are client-sid...
Live
Overview In this article you will learn about Kaltura’s Live plugin features and capabilities. Setup To learn how to set the Live and Live Q&A plugins on the player, see The Kaltura Player Studio Admin Guide...
Live Q&A
Overview Kaltura Player has been enhanced to improve the user experience for viewing a Live broadcast along with moderated Q&A. Setup To learn how to set the Live Q & A Plugin on the player, see The Kaltura Pl...
Logo Updated
Overview The Logo plugin adds an icon to the bottom right corner of the player, helping to identify your company's brand and enhance brand awareness. Setup To learn how to set the Logo plugin on the player, see The Kaltura Player Stu...
Moderation
Overview The moderation plugin ‘flag’ appears on the top right corner so that viewers can flag content that doesn’t uphold the guidelines and rules set by the organization and/or administrators as suitable for publishing. Fl...
Navigation
Overview The navigation plugin appears on the top right corner of the screen and offers the viewer the ability to search and navigate the content chapters, slides, hotspots, questions for the audience, and search in video functionality such as q...
Playlist
Overview The Playlist Plugin offers viewers to watch a collection of videos one by one. For more information, please see What is a playlist? Setup To learn how to set the Playlist plugin on the player, see The Kaltura Play...
Quiz
Overview Interactive Video Quiz seamlessly embeds questions at any point in a video. These questions are attached to the video and ‘travel’ with it wherever it is embedded or presented. Interactive Video Quizzing c...
Related
Overview Related Videos are displayed at the end of the video to attract users to watch additional videos. Click on the Related Videos icon to display the videos related to your currently selected video. Setup To learn how to set the R...
Search Engine Optimization
Overview The Search Engine Optimization (SEO) plugin makes life easier for search engines, helping them understand your video's key elements. By embedding the video's metadata in a Schema.org VideoObject into the hosting webpage code, ...
Share
Overview The share plugin appears on the top right corner of the screen and offers the viewer the ability to share content to social media channels, email, or as a direct link. Viewers can share the entire video or from a specific time stamp. S...
Skip Intro/Outro
Overview If enabled, an option to "Skip Intro" displays on the lower right corner of the player for a set time from the start of the video. This allows the viewer to skip the intro of the video if desired. In our example below, the Int...
Transcript
Overview The Transcript plugin displays captions in a transcription window alongside or underneath the player. Viewers can follow the audio or search and jump to a specific point when a word was spoken. To use the transcript plugin, make sure t...
Watermark
Overview The Watermark plugin can include an image overlay on the video for protecting your content and strengthening your brand's awareness. The Watermark often identifies as a logo image that is displayed during playback and points to a U...
360 & VR
Overview The Kaltura Player supports 360° video and VR on desktop and mobile devices with any motion - mouse, touch, device motion, and keyboard keys. Immersive videos, also known as 360 videos, 360-degree videos, or spherical videos, are v...
