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Elgg not happy with kaltura
Tue, 12/01/2009 - 21:01
Howdy -
I have a local kalturaCE server and it's working perfectly in drupal. When I try to get our elgg to work with it, it sorta works (i've changed the definitions.php SERVER_URL and CDN_URL to my kaltura server) . You can upload a video but it never shows on the elgg site. On the kaltura management console you can see the video. I change admin tagg to: elgg_plugin dmespelt and sometimes it shows up when I recreate all video objects and sometimes it just gives me an error "Misconfigured plugin or auth error with Kaltura!" - yet each time I check the plugin it says it is fine.
Any thoughts?
Thanks for any ideas you might have...
- Don
p.s. - uh duh... running elgg 1.6 with kaltura plugin 1.0
Wed, 12/09/2009 - 23:36
#2
I changed the urls back to kaltura.com and put in my partner info. EVERYTHING works great. I see now that I am never asked the 'I certify...violate...' stuff at the end after uploading when i am pointing to our CE server.
Is anyone using their own kalturaCE with elgg?
I noticed that the kaltura hosted site doesn't have notifications on yet the drupal side requires it. I'm going to create a second kalturaCE for just elgg and play with that...
Anyone care to comment... bueller.... bueller.... bueller... :)
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 21:10
#3
What's the difference between kalturaCE and kaltura.com? You change the url to your server if CE... Are there any other changes?
kaltura.com works but CE doesn't?
CE never gets to the Mix - VIDEO EDITOR part... kaltura.com upload, tags then goes to the mix
Interestingly enough - if I use one of the demo Video Mix files, add my name etc., I can import it in the elgg and use the video editor to edit the mix correctly.
Thu, 12/17/2009 - 17:54
#4
1) In elgg pluggin: kaltura_video/kaltura/api_client open definitions.php file
change the http address to the url of your public server (lines26 & 27):
define("KALTURA_SERVER_URL", http://www.kaltura.com/" >http://www.kaltura.com);
define("KALTURA_CDN_URL", http://cdn.kaltura.com/" >http://cdn.kaltura.com);
2) In same file: comment out the line (35) //define("KALTURA_KCW_UICONF", 380);
3) In same file: uncomment out the line (31) define("KALTURA_KCW_UNICONF", 501);
kalturaCE now works with elgg
If you just use the plugin without changing anything the kaltura.com hosted videos works but won't work with the kalturaCE self hosted version.
The other cool feature is creating your own player in 'Application Studio' on kalturaCE. You can make your own watermark etc... Once you've created a player you'll have an ID#. Further down the definitions.php client you'll see KALTURA_GLOBAL_PLAYER (line 44) - go down to uiConfId and change the # to the ID# you just created. I did it on line 48 & 56 because I wasn't sure which it was pulling from.
Thank you kaltura, this really is a great player and host program. Saved our school $$$.
Sun, 12/20/2009 - 18:52
#5
Thanks a lot for posting this and sharing your knowledge with the community!
Just re-reading the elgg install again... if I am running a remote kalturaCE site...
Drupal and Elgg exist on another box. Drupal works great with kaltura but elgg doesn't. The elgg install says it needs the curl libraries and I assumed this was on the kaltura box - do I need to install curl on the elgg box as well? Probably a silly question but I REALLY want this to work for my schools. Again though, drupal worked out of the box with the remote kalturaCE and Elgg doesn't even want to play.