Kaltura Simple Uploader (KSU) is a standalone transparent widget. It enables content administrators and/or end-users to upload media files by using a simple desktop browser selection.
Within this simple upload process, the KSU transparent widget plays the role of services delegator, establishing direct communication between the desktop browser application and the Kaltura services.
If you want to enable advanced upload options, such as importing content from external media sources (e.g. MySpace, Flickr, etc.), you may want to consider integrating your web application with the Kaltura Contributor Wizard, which is Kaltura’s more sophisticated media uploader/importer widget instead of the KSU widget.
The KSU widget supports the following media uploading functionality:
- Uploading single/multiple media file/s using desktop browser selection
- JavaScript enabled configuration of: uploaded media type/s, maximum file size, maximum number of uploads and maximum size of total uploads
- JavaScript enabled setting of metadata fields related to the uploaded media
Generic uiConf for KSU
For a set of media groups and file types that are common use the generic uiConf: Id = 1103.
It is possible to upload the following file formats using the default KSU uiConf:
- Video: .flv, .asf, .qt, .mov, .mpg, .mpeg, .avi, .wmv, .mp4, .m4v, .3gp
- Image: .jpg, .jpeg, .bmp, .png, .gif, .tif, .tiff
- Audio: .flv, .asf, .wmv, .qt, .mov, .mpg, .avi, .mp3, .wav, .mp4, .wma, .3gp
- Media group (video/image/audio): .qt, .mov, .mpg, .avi, .mp3, .wav, .mp4, .wma, .flv, .asf, .qt, .mov, .mpeg, .avi, .wmv, .m4v, .3gp, .jpg, .jpeg, .bmp, .png, .gif, .tif, .tiff
- Documents: .csv, .doc, .docx, .txt, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx, .pdf, .rtf, .tab, .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .art, .bmp, .tif
- SWF (flash document): .swf
- Any (all groups): .swf, .csv, .doc, .docx, .txt, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx, .pdf, .rtf, .tab, .mov, .mpg, .avi, .mp3, .wav, .mp4, .wma, .flv, .asf, .qt, .mov, .mpg, .mpeg, .avi, .wmv, .m4v, .3gp, .wav, .mp4, .jpg, .jpeg, .art, .bmp, .png, .gif, .tif, .tiff
Notes:
- File format detection is made according to the media file extension.
- The supported file types can be changed by modifying the uiConf of the KSU widget.
GUI Screenshot
While the KSU widget is a GUI-less transparent widget. It triggers a standard desktop browser application for media selection.
