Help Wanted (commercial) / Plugin / Extension for Kaltura Video Player? PHP

thatswright · Post by **thatswright** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 8:39 am

My organization National Film Festival for Talented Youth (http://www.nffty.org) is having problems utilizing all of the features offered by the Kaltura Video player. Kaltura recently developed a Kaltura extension for Joomla 1.5, so we approached them about developing an extension for CMS Made Simple ... the timeline for completion and price would not work for us, so we are going to put it out here.

The specific Kaltura functionality which we cannot implement within the CMSMS framework is to have the correct video load when clicked .. right now clicking on a video on our main page gallery just takes us to the default video player. Here's Kaltura's answer:

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If you have a gallery with thumbnails representing a video, and you want to set it up so that when a users presses a thumbnail it will go to a page with the playlist and will play the selected video first, before playlist any other videos.

So you know what video the user is trying to play based on the thumbnail and have its entry_id. All that’s left to do is have the Flashvar “entryid=1234” in the embed code a dynamic parameter.

I think what you are asking below is if you get the entry id from the URL, and my answer is not necessarily. Another option is to keep a local DB with that info – when a user uploads a video through our ContributorWizard there is a callback function with the entry id. By calling the getEntry API you can get all the Metadata on that entry id and store it on your DB. That way you have all the information you need.

We do have a modest budget to work with to get this accomplished ... it's important that we can maintain the Kaltura features from the CMSMS Admin Panel to ensure continuity over the years.

Thanks!

- Nate Wright -
Marketing Dude - National Film Festival for Talented Youth

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