Interactive Video

October 30th, 2009 No comments

Description
Installation & Settings
Faq
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Description

Add interactive video capabilities to your blog! This is not just another video embed tool – it includes the ability to upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix content with an online video editor, enable video responses, manage and track your video content and much more… And Kaltura covers all hosting and streaming costs for FREE up to 10GB.

Highlights:

Upload, record from webcam and import all rich-media directly to your blog post;
Edit and remix videos using Kaltura’s online full-featured video editor;
Easily import all rich media (video, audio, pictures…) from other sites and social networks, such as MySpace, Flickr, CCMixter, Jamendo, New York Public Library etc. and;
Allow readers and subscribers to add video and audio comments, and to participate in collaborative videos;
Manage and track interactive videos through the management console;
Complete administrative capabilities. You decide who can add and edit videos;
Supports more than 150 video, audio and image file formats and codecs
Three different video player styles to choose from
Custom sizing of the video player
Advanced sharing options for videos
Easy installation that takes just 4 steps and a few minutes.

With Version 1.15 we’ve added quite a few fixes and enhancements, including the ability to set permissions per player. Based on several requests that we received, now you can choose who can add to and edit each specific video player that you post.

Showcase your blog, see examples and pictures of the plugin and get support in our forum: http://community.kaltura.org/viewforum.php?f=4

Installation & Settings

Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in the WordPress admin application
Go to ‘Settings’ -> ‘Interactive Video’ to setup the Interactive Video plugin

Faq

I installed the plugin, but installation failed after pressing Complete Installation, showing me a text in a red rectangle?
Cause: Either curl / curl functions is disabled on your server or your hosting blocks API calls to the Kaltura servers.

Solution 1: Enable curl and it’s functions on the server (or have the hosting company enable it for you).
Solution 2: Remove any blocking of external calls from the server.

I can’t activate the plugin, it presents an error message after clicking Activate on the plugin list
It might be caused due to an old version of PHP. The Kaltura wp plugin is written for PHP4 and PHP5 with the use of classes and static members, these are not supported on earlier versions of PHP. Upgrade to PHP5 / later. If upgrading doesn’t solve this issue or you already have PHP5 on your server, post the error information on the forum and we’ll help you. (http://community.kaltura.org/viewforum.php?f=4). Support for PHP4 was added on version 1.0