Video & Media Plugin for Elgg

The Kaltura Elgg Plugin is an addon to power the Elgg social engine with interactive video and rich-media capabilities.

Ivan, Aram and others from the ELGG community have created a plugin to empower ELGG-based social communities with Kaltura's full range of video capabilities.

Features:

Create videos in an easy form, from various sources using the Kaltura Contribution Wizard, KDP and other Kaltura widgets with the Kaltura APIs client library for PHP.

Edit your videos online with a nice advanced editor provided also by the Kaltura API.
Edit the details of your videos: title, description, tags.
Define the level of privacy to share your videos: private, public, registered users or your friends.
Comment, rate you videos by any user allowed by the level of privacy.
View the code details of your generated video to allow put it on other places.
Make a collaborative videos in groups. In a group environment you can start a video, put the level of privacy to allow editing by others users of the group and le the other change you initial video.
Integrated tinyMCE features: you can choose in "tools administration" if you want to allow this. If it is allowed (by default) then the users can put videos in any textarea form, containing tinyMCE or not (this show a button witch open the video gallery or editor).
Widget: This plugin has also a widget to allow you show the last video in the dashboard. The video shown to the visitor depends of its level of privacy, EX: if him is your friend, then can view your last video make for friends, public or registered users.
RSS functionality: in the Elgg way, you can subscribe to feeds in any page related with the plugin.
Comes with a integrated form to easy register automatically at kaltura if you are not a partner.
There is a way to import videos created in Kaltura outsize Elgg, read the INSTALL.txt file in "ADVANCED IMPORT".

Read more about features in Kaltura Elgg Group features page

Installation (you need a running installation of Elgg):

Please read the INSTALL.txt file comming with the plugin, could be updated.

Please be sure that you have Elgg installed in a site with CURL libraries for PHP
Copy the directory kaltura_video/ and all his files to the plugins folder in elgg_path/mod/
Activate the plugin in tools administration
Configure the plugin by clicking in "setting" in tools administration

Get Project Source Code

You may check out a read-only working copy anonymously over HTTP:
svn checkout http://www.kaltura.org/kalorg/elgg_plugin
Maintainers may also commit using their site user name and password [remind]

For more about using Subversion, see Client programs and plugins and the SVN online Book.