Extracting Video URLs

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Wed, 07/06/2011 - 18:48
tech_2
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Hi All,

Firstly - been playing with Kaltura for a while now - LOVE IT! Well done to the entire dev team for doing something amazing! We're actually going to use it as the backend for a live VOD site.

We're planning to develop apps for iDevices & Android to run alongside our web-based content site.

My question here is - to extract the correct URL for the individual video "files" where would one start? I have tried to directly view the video URL provided in the code in Preview & Embed but it seems this just sends the full flash player which looks for the videos. Our problems here being iDevices don't like Flash :( so we'd need to access the video directly.

Could anyone give me any pointers here?

TIA

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Wed, 07/06/2011 - 23:16
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papyromancer
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Check out http://www.kaltura.org/kalorg/kaltura-api-clients-sample-code/php/Sample...

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Thu, 07/07/2011 - 15:27
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Thanks for that link. Unfortunately after modifying the variables as required this results in an error:-

PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function listAction() on a non-object

I also tried the getmobileflavour.php example, & again provided it with the correct secrets & partner IDs, but this again resulted in an error of:-
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'KalturaException' with message 'Error while starting session for partner [101]' in /path/was/here/KalturaClientBase.php:320\nStack trace:\n#0 path/was/here/KalturaClient.php(2061): KalturaClientBase->throwExceptionIfError(Array)\n#1 /path/was/here/kal_getmobile.php(31): KalturaSessionService->start('SECRETWASHERE...', 'ANONYMOUS', 2, '101')\n#2 {main}\n thrown in /path/was/here/KalturaClientBase.php on line 320

Any ideas why this seemingly simple piece of code should not work? Unfortunately my dev team are working on the main site right now & I really dont have time to troubleshoot this one alone.

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Fri, 12/02/2011 - 05:34
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Hi tech_2,

What you can do is that you can list all the medias using api_v3 media list. http://www.kaltura.com/api_v3/?service=media&action=list&ks=XXXXXXXX. It will return an xml of all the medias on your server. Once you have the list you can parse them in php or any language that you like and extract the video URL.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Harry

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