Connecting Drupal to Kaltura CE

• What is it about?
• How do i install KalturaCE ?
• How do I make Drupal work with KalturaCE ?
• What can I do with the Kaltura Drupal extension?

What is it about?

Your Drupal server can easily be connected to Kaltura Community Edition (KalturaCE) to provide full video solution , hosted at your own hosting.
Here are the main features of this combination:

• Empowers Drupal websites with a full video experience
• Easy upload and import of videos, images and audio files from your computer, MySpace, Flickr, record from webcam and more
• Total independence, content hosted and streamed on your KalturaCE server
• All metadata stored locally on your Drupal site - each media file is created as a Drupal Video Node
• CCK Field representation of rich media - to easily add rich media to existing content types
• Full integration with Drupal Views - including predefined views to ease integration
• Statistics collection – number of plays for each video collected and updated on the video node
• Drupal permissions integration – allows the administrator to decide who can view and who can edit content
• Drupal tags integration – metadata and tags from the Kaltura system are automatically included in the Drupal tags, and vice versa
• Drupal 6 and Drupal 5 compatible versions available
• Built-in online video editor - supports trimming videos, transitions, effects, soundtracks, remixing, reordering clips, overlays and collaborative editing

How do I install Kaltura CE?

• go to http://www.kaltura.org/project/kalturaCE , download the Kaltura CE from there, and follow the installation instructions

How do I configure Drupal to work with Kaltura CE?

• Install Drupal – this could be either on the same server where KalturaCE is running or on a server that has access to KalturaCE (inside the same LAN)
• Install the Kaltura module for Drupal -

  Download the Kaltura module for Drupal from http://drupal.org/project/kaltura and place it in the modules directory of Drupal. The Kaltura module depends on the following modules for full functionality, you can download and add them as well:

  • CCK - http://drupal.org/project/cck
  • Views - http://drupal.org/project/views
  • JQuery Update - http://drupal.org/project/jquery_update
• Conduct the following configuration steps –
  • Open the file kaltura_settings.php located in the Kaltura module under kaltura_client directory
  • Find the line: define('KalturaSettings_SERVER_URL', "http://www.kaltura.com");
  • Replace the URL (http://www.kaltura.com) to the full URL of your KalturaCE installation (with the "KalturaCE" suffix).For example, if your Kaltura CE server host is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx The line would be:define('KalturaSettings_SERVER_URL', "http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/kalturaCE ");
  • Add a file named crossdomain.xml to your server root directory. If your domain is domain.com. This file should be accessible in http://domain.com/crossdomain.xml inside this file should be the following content, where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is replaced by your KalturaCE server IP:
    
    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM "http://www.macromedia.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd">
    <cross-domain-policy>
            <site-control permitted-cross-domain-policies="master-only"/>
            <allow-access-from domain="localhost"/>
            <allow-access-from domain="127.0.0.1"/>
            <allow-access-from domain="*.kaltura.com"/>
            <allow-access-from domain=" xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx "/>
            <allow-http-request-headers-from domain="127.0.0.1" headers="*"/>
            <allow-http-request-headers-from domain="localhost" headers="*"/>
            <allow-http-request-headers-from domain="*.kaltura.com" headers="*"/>
            <allow-http-request-headers-from domain=" xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx " headers="*"/>
    </cross-domain-policy>
• Activate your module
  • Browse to your Drupal Kaltura module activation form:

    Click on the "Click here if you already have a partner ID" linkYou will reach the following page:

  • Fill in the following details then click "Complete installation":
    • Partner ID - 1 (this is a generic Partner ID since this is on your own server)
    • Email - the email you provided during your KalturaCE registration
    • Password- the password you provided during your KalturaCE registration

Once installed, what can I do with the Kaltura Drupal module?

The Kaltura Drupal video module provides you with the full capabilities of Kaltura’s open source video platform – designed specifically for Drupal.
You can watch our Drupal module tutorial to learn how to create content, upload videos, remix content and more.