Comments on: Screencast: Basic Alfresco-Kaltura integration

By: jpotts

jpotts — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:56:48 +0000

Akinori,

Thanks for doing that. I’ll send you an email on this shortly.

Jeff

By: Ishii Akinori

Ishii Akinori — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:32:59 +0000

Thank you.

I made it today. Now I got 43.9MB .mov file here.
Are you interested in Japanese subtitled version of your video? If so, could you tell me where to upload?

Akinori

By: jpotts

jpotts — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:35:54 +0000

Ishii,

Yes, that would be great.

Jeff

By: Ishii Akinori

Ishii Akinori — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:27:45 +0000

Hi,
I’m Akinori from aegif corp. in Japan, Alfresco partner.
I think one of our prospects will be interested in this integration. Could I put Japanese subtitle on your screencast and show it to them?

Regards

By: jpotts

jpotts — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:29:00 +0000

Will,

Yes, definitely Kaltura offloads the transcoding and transformations from the Alfresco server.

It would be easy to do a Share integration based on this integration. I’ve coded up a stateless service that I’ve exposed as a root object in JavaScript. The service wraps the Kaltura Client Library for Java. (That was the most time-consuming piece of the integration–they didn’t have a Java client library for the most recent version of their API so I ported their dot net library to Java for them). Anyway, you should be able to send the asset to Kaltura and then get the thumbnail URL back which you could present in the Share UI. You could also easily show the Kaltura media player in the Share UI as well.

Another thought I had is that Kaltura makes it easy for people to capture and remix video through their web browser. With the prevalence of web cams, you could easily do asynchronous collab with video snippets instead of (boring) type-written threads. So you’d have a bunch of Kaltura-managed video snippets in a discussion thread in Share.

Kaltura can also do things with Office document conversion that goes beyond what Alfresco can currently do OOTB. For example, you can upload a presentation and a video of someone speaking, and then sync those up. That might also be a nice place for Alfresco to plug in given the number of presentations typically managed in an Alfresco repo.

Jeff

By: Will Abson

Will Abson — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:48:46 +0000

It would be great to see how an integration with Share could work with this, one of the barriers to delivering more DAM-like capabilities there is that the ffmpeg transformations we’ve played around with here get executed on the same server, thus are only so scalable.

I get the impression that Kaltura is designed to manage this load much better, so one idea might be to leverage it to generate doclib-style thumbnails and FLV previews of videos uploaded into Share.

I’ve already started a Forge project for this type of integration here – http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/share-mediaxtns/.