This guide is applicable for Kaltura CE version 3.0.0
Release Date
Kaltura CE 3.0 - Nov 11th 2010
Kaltura CE 3.0 Beta - Oct 26th 2010
Kaltura CE 2.0 - July 19th 2010
General
Kaltura CE V3 is based on the Cassiopeia release of the Kaltura online video platform. It provides new features, infrastructure enhancements, and new API services.
Supported/Tested OS
Kaltura CE has been tested on the following operating systems:
- Ubunto 10.04 - 32-bit/64-bit
- CentOS 5.5 – 32-bit/64-bit
Please note that it is possible to install Kaltura CE on other Linux distributions as well, however it was not yet fully tested by Kaltura
New Features and Functionalities
The following list includes the main new features and infrastructure changes that are available as part of the Kaltura CE V3.0, for more information, please refer to the KMC Quick Start Guide or to the Kaltura CE documentation pages withing kaltura.org
- Full support for PHP 5.3
- Full Support of any VAST ad server in player (Player Advertising tab in KMC studio)
- Custom Metadata Fields
- KMC password security enhancements
- Mobile support (transcoding flavors)
- Net Storage - enabling auto-export to and delivery from a remote storage.
- Sphinx - full text search engine (bundled within the Kaltura CE package)- All entries and playlists searches moved to sphinx search engine
- Automatic code generation tool available at the Developers Test Console in the Kaltura Admin Console application
The following list includes the main new features that became available as part of the Kaltura CE V2.0, for more information, please refer to the KMC Quick Start Guide or to the Kaltura CE documentation pages withing kaltura.org
- Video Analytics
- Access Control & Scheduling
- External Syndication & SEO
- Adaptive Bandwidth & Transcoding Profiles
- Kaltura Online Video Editors Integrated in KMC
- Content categories tree Integrated in KMC
- Kaltura Player: KDP3 Integrated in KMC
- The new generation of Kaltura’s batch processing module
- Live streaming workflow
- Kaltura admin console functionalities
- Multi-publisher support
- Multi system admin user support (for admin console users only)
- Batch processing control
- Monitoring
Features that require additional setup/3rd party licensing/CDN capabilities
- RTMP delivery – requires CDN/FMS integration
- Adaptive bit-rate – requires CDN/FMS integration (already integrated with Akamai)
- Analytics – for capturing CDN bandwidth usage – CDN logs integration is needed (already integrated with CDN logs of Akamai, limelight, level3)
- Analytics – user geo-distribution analytics – requires ip2location DB license
- Live streaming workflow – requires CDN/FMS integration for live channel provisioning and for live streaming (already integrated with Akamai's live channel provisioning).
- Webcam recording – requires FMS integration – instructions to be provided.
- Access control – geo restriction - requires ip2location DB license for maintainable ip2location DB (current mapping relies on the IP to country database from http://software77.net/geo-ip
- Advertising – requires 3rd party ad-server account
- Content syndication via Tubemogul – requires a tubemogul account
- Transcoding to VP6 format requires On2 transcoder – configuration instructions to be provided
- Enabling Encoding.com cloud transcoding requires an account at Encoding.com and batch configuration adjustments - configuration instructions to be provided
Features that require add-on server components which are not provided for CE integration
- Remix download - flattening server
- Doc conversion - required for enabling PPT-Video widget
- Silvelight player/smooth streaming
Known issues
- Kaltura CE should run as a Virtual Host under Apache2
- Kaltura does not provide a complete migration path from older versions of the Kaltura CE (v1.5) to the current one
- The links within the KMC to Kaltura contact pages are pointing to the KMC hosted by Kaltura at www.kaltura.com and not to the local Kaltura CE
- Instructions on how to migrate from Kaltura CE 2.0.x to Kaltura CE 3.0.0 are not yet provided.
