[support] Experience with Kaltura?

Ryan LeTulle bayousoft at gmail.com
Tue Oct 12 19:12:33 UTC 2010


Update:

Currently testing out alternatives again because of high encoding failure
rate with Kaltura Community Server.

Ryan LeTulle

bayousoft.com <http://www.bayousoft.com>
twitter.com/bayousoft <http://www.twitter.com/bayousoft>





On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Christopher M. Jones <
cjones at partialflow.com> wrote:

> Thanks for all the input. I'm currently weighing Kaltura against using
> Amazon S3 for storage and something else for transcoding. Video has support
> for S3 and, as you mentioned, Zencoder. I'd rather just plug up Kaltura and
> get on with it, though.
>
> Steve, can you elaborate on what kind of bad experience you had? Was it an
> issue with support? Performance? Code quality? Integration issues? ... And
> with what versions of relevant components were you working?
>
>
> On 10/05/2010 04:15 PM, Ryan LeTulle wrote:
>
>> @christopher
>> I also tried out and follow the video module progress.  It seems like
>> they are making a lot of progress there.  It is tightly integrated with
>> zencoder.  Might be worth test driving for your purposes as well.
>>
>> Ryan LeTulle
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>> bayousoft.com <http://www.bayousoft.com>
>> twitter.com/bayousoft <http://www.twitter.com/bayousoft>
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>> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Ryan LeTulle <bayousoft at gmail.com
>> <mailto:bayousoft at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>    @bill
>>
>>    thanks for that link, btw, funny I never came across it while
>>    implementing the system.  I did a lot of googling to :)
>>
>>    Ryan LeTulle
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>>    bayousoft.com <http://www.bayousoft.com>
>>    twitter.com/bayousoft <http://www.twitter.com/bayousoft>
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>>    On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Ryan LeTulle <bayousoft at gmail.com
>>    <mailto:bayousoft at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>        I never used the release in question above.
>>
>>        We built an entire POC using the Kaltura module(s) and the
>>        Kaltura Community Server
>>        http://www.kaltura.org/project/community_edition_video_platform on
>>        the backend in 7 days.  Community support could use some
>>        improvement but the product (especially KCE) is quite amazing.
>>
>>        Ryan LeTulle
>>
>>        bayousoft.com <http://www.bayousoft.com>
>>        twitter.com/bayousoft <http://www.twitter.com/bayousoft>
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>>        On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Victor Kane
>>        <victorkane at gmail.com <mailto:victorkane at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>            Wow! Hadn't seen that. Thanks Bill, had no idea.
>>
>>            But the module page is normal and there is a current
>>            recommended release.
>>
>>            What gives?
>>
>>            Has the issue been resolved, then?
>>
>>            Victor
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>>            On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Bill Fitzgerald
>>            <bill at funnymonkey.com <mailto:bill at funnymonkey.com>> wrote:
>>
>>                Before using Kaltura, I would recommend auditing the
>>                code to check how the Kaltura module interacts with your
>>                site. This has not always been disclosed to end users.
>>
>>                See http://drupal.org/node/847952
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>>                Cheers,
>>
>>                Bill
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>>                On 10/5/10 9:38 AM, Victor Kane wrote:
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>>>                I have used Kaltura. They have an excellent module,
>>>                very well designed and documented, both for viewing
>>>                and for conducting business with the Kaltura server.
>>>
>>>                You can try it for free.
>>>
>>>                The only problem I had for several clients was that
>>>                the cost seemed a little steep at the time (given
>>>                their budgets), but that may be an uninformed opinion
>>>                on my part. One client used it successfully for a
>>>                video contest campaign.
>>>
>>>                Victor Kane
>>>                http://awebfactory.com.ar
>>>                http://projectflowandtracker.com
>>>
>>>                On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Ryan LeTulle
>>>                <bayousoft at gmail.com <mailto:bayousoft at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>                    I just built a POC using Kaltura. www.hubcideo.com
>>>                    <http://www.hubcideo.com>
>>>
>>>                    Ryan LeTulle
>>>
>>>                    bayousoft.com <http://www.bayousoft.com>
>>>                    twitter.com/bayousoft
>>>                    <http://www.twitter.com/bayousoft>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>>                    On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Christopher M.
>>>                    Jones <cjones at partialflow.com
>>>                    <mailto:cjones at partialflow.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>                        Does anyone have experience with Kaltura? Does
>>>                        anyone have other
>>>                        recommendations? I've done lots of video in
>>>                        Drupal, and I know about the
>>>                        standard approaches. But I'm about to build a
>>>                        site with 1000+ HD videos,
>>>                        roughly 3 mins each. I'm looking at
>>>                        recommending a CDN for this site,
>>>                        and so I've gone ahead and signed up for a
>>>                        free Kaltura account for use
>>>                        with the kaltura module. It looks good, but
>>>                        I'm hoping for helpful input
>>>                        from people who've been down this road before.
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