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livestream player
Sat, 10/10/2009 - 02:01
I would absolutely love to see the ability to place a player into a wordpress page or article that shows a current live stream.
It seems the needed capabilities are already within kaltura, as the admin can record a video to insert into a post. I tested that and it worked perfectly.
What I would rather like to see is a separate 'broadcast live' button, where the admin can then broadcast the stream like livestream does.
Is this currently possible?
also:
How do I adjust the quality of the webcam capture?
I only did a couple of one minute webcam capture clips and noticed the quality was pretty lousy compared to what I know is possible. I saw no input area to adjust the quality settings, it simply just captured my output.
Keep in mind I'm still not running my own community server, hope to try and install it this weekend.
I'm kind of hoping that in the configuration of the community server, that I as the server admin can adjust the live video capture quality, and maybe even configure it to use h264 instead of flv for quality purposes.
Thu, 10/15/2009 - 12:37
#2
If I understand you correclty, you are asking about live streaming - a feature we don't currently have.
Tue, 11/10/2009 - 12:00
#3
Hi Anointed,
You could investigate the possibility of integrating a third party technology that supports live streaming, such as LiveStream (www.livestream.com). LiveStream provides all the tools you need to get a live stream into a player and then delivered over their CDN. It would likely be possible to integrate the LiveStream player into the Kaltura player and offer live streams through this third party method.
Nigel
Fri, 11/13/2009 - 21:59
#4
@Nigel - I already have my own wowza cluster setup and running perfectly. I was more trying to find a way of integrating kaltura with my wowza server to make the user experience more seamless in my wordpress-mu environment.
At the moment I am fighting 2 battles with this project.
1. I like the idea of allowing the user to upload their vod content through kaltura's wordpress plugin. I need to figure out how to modify the users panel to upload the video to the appropriate users wowza content directory. (I believe that is just a path setting in kaltura). I then have to figure out how to modify the plugin to use the wowza rtmp address for the video's, so that we have true rtmp or rtmpe streaming.
2. If a user records a video live on the fly via their encoder software to my wowza server, I have to find a way of getting kaltura to see the new video file in the users wowza content directory. (even though it's already in h264 format from the encoder, the video still needs to be processed to get the thumbnail image).
Beyond that, I can simply continue as normal where I have a player embedded onto a webpage that is used for the live broadcasts.
What I was hoping for was a kaltura 'livestream.com' type of broadcaster software so that I no longer have to force my customers into using either adobe media encoder, quicktime boradcaster, or wirecast.
Thu, 06/03/2010 - 12:39
#5
@ anointed
how did you get on with this? I'd be interested to know as I am considering deploying a Wowze / Kaltura installation and will need to address the same issues that you have raised on this post.
Is there currently any way to show the 'live stream' when a person is recording a video to place on the site?
Meaning, I go in and create an article, I click the add video button, and use my webcam to record, I want to show that recording while it's happening to my users.
--Obviously I would rather have this separated out into a separate panel for the broadcaster, so the broadcaster does not have to go in and create an article to get to the kaltura plugin recorder, but at this point, I would take anything that works.