Kaltura: A great option, despite some pitfalls, for large scale events
We use Kaltura for large scale conferences, such as GTC. Typically these events have upwards of 200k+ attendees
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What is Kaltura?
Kaltura, headquartered in New York, offers enterprise or large scale video storage, streaming, and distribution supporting a variety of purposes such as streaming, enterprise video portal, interactive video and virtual classroom, or podcasting.
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What is Kaltura?
Kaltura, headquartered in New York, offers enterprise or large scale video storage, streaming, and distribution supporting a variety of purposes such as streaming, enterprise video portal, interactive video and virtual classroom, or podcasting.
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Kaltura, headquartered in New York, offers enterprise or large scale video storage, streaming, and distribution supporting a variety of purposes such as streaming, enterprise video portal, interactive video and virtual classroom, or podcasting.
Reviewers rate Video personalization and Integration to LMS highest, with a score of 10.
The most common users of Kaltura are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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August 02, 2021
Kaltura is a good video management platform
We use Kaltura's platform in order to integrate our platform with our customers who are using Kaltura on their end. It is being used solely by the Research & Development team, and only for such integration purposes. For each customer, we apply a specific integration according to their needs.
- Kaltura's platform let's you manage your video content in the cloud
- Kaltura's platform lets you stream your video content and saves you from handling it by yourself
- Kaltura's "Mediaspace" (video portal) is relatively slow and not so intuitive to handle
- Kaltura's KMC (management console) is less intuitive when you have multiple accounts to handle
- Content (video) management
- API integrations
- Kaltura's "Mediaspace" (video portal)
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- I'm on the R&D (technical) side, not on the BizDev side, so all I can say is that the ability to integrate our platform with Kaltura's products helped us sign new deals with customers
We used (or are still using for some extent) these services for different purposes (internal or in favor of our customers).
Usually the decision of "which platform to use" is based on specific customers' needs and trying to solve their needs with the proper integration, so I can't say that Kaltura is better or worse than other available solutions we use - they are each good in their field...
Usually the decision of "which platform to use" is based on specific customers' needs and trying to solve their needs with the proper integration, so I can't say that Kaltura is better or worse than other available solutions we use - they are each good in their field...
April 12, 2017
Kaltura - One stop solution for all things video.
Kaltura is used to deploy all our rich media assets to our multiple websites within our company.
- We use Kaltura's ability to trans code video asset into multiple file types to make the videos easily accessible on multiple platforms.
- Kaltura's accessibility with the use of close captions and great 508 compliant video players.
- The ability to customize any player to fit our styles and different audience types with our websites.
- The only feature I believe Kaltura needs is a better way to deliver Audio Descriptive content more easily.
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- The ability to have such a robust solution for rich media content far outweighs the cost of service.
- We have new projects which will push the limits and abilities of Kaltura in the future.
We have reviewed other services like Wowza but did not get a chance to use it.
April 16, 2014
First 4 years with Kaltura at a major university.
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
The university was struggling with video content in the current LMS and began a search for a better alternative. At the time Kaltura was the only system of the ones that were available that supported HTML5 and that was the original reason for choosing Kaltura over the other systems. We currently use a full on-prem install of the Falcon KMC and the most recent Blackboard building block. Our LMS is also fully on-prem. We have also created a Drupal site where one of the colleges can create proffesional developement content and make it available for purchase using Kaltura to ingest and stream the video content. We use virtual servers for all of the applications except for transcoding, we use a physical box for transcoding. We have found that transcoding on a physical machine is much more efficient that virtually. The use of Kaltura as our main video ingestion, transcoding and streaming system in our LMS has been very successful. Our player is branded and different groups have other needs, like making content downloadable or captioning, that Kaltura easily makes available to adjust in the KMC. We do not have the ability to screen record yet and only recently been able to take advantage of recording directly to a webcam by all users including students. This has been extremely effectively used in discussion boards and with distance learning courses.
- Webcam recording directly into a discussion board or as an assignment is a great way to increase student engagement. There are other systems that do this now but we use Kaltura and it works great.
- The KMC is very user friendly and makes it very simple to manage the content and system settings.
- The "Studio" tab enables admins to customize the player with a long list of features. We have branded our player, changed colors, added different buttons.
- The Kaltura metrics is fantastic. Seeing user engagement of specific users or videos is a huge plus. Instructors can even see metrics from their Blackboard course about the students in that course.
- It would be nice to be able to adjust the player features for specific courses in an LMS.
- I would like to see a dynamic player in Blackboard.
- I would like for instructors to be able to add .srt files to their content so they may caption the video themselves in the LMS.
- Managing video content with the KMC has greatly reduced the amount of hours previously needed to manage.
- User issues ie: uploading video, viewing video has been greatly reduced.
- Increased user engagement with using video in LMS courses. We currently have 6,929 videos on our system. Last month , 2/1/14, 17,623 videos were viewed at least 75% of the way through.
In 2011 we looked at ShareStream and MDID3. Kaltura was the only system at the time that had a Blackboard building block. The newest Blackboard versions have a "video everywhere" feature that connects to a users You Tube account. But a user needs to log into that account before being able to upload the video and unless they have enabled the feature they cannot upload a video longer than 15 minutes.
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
We use Kaltura, and more specifically MediaSpace, across our entire campus. It fills a need for us to have easily accessible video for a range of devices in and out of the classroom, while avoiding ads from alternative free services. We can also curate our content and provide a safe place for our faculty, staff, and students to hold their videos. Kaltura also gives us control over content distribution (especially copyrighted material) by only allowing videos to be played for a certain period of time or to a certain group of people. The Moodle assignment plugin extends our LMS' capability by allowing students to complete assignments that require them to record video.
- Very easy to use interface for uploading videos or capturing a screen recording. There are very few clicks required to get the media up and running. The video conversion process that happens on the back-end is fast and provides videos in device agnostic formats.
- Integrates well with other systems, such as our Moodle LMS. This extends the capabilities of the LMS and also allows us to keep video/multimedia content organized in a central location (the KMC).
- Kaltura can be connected to various processes within your organization. For example, we have a system in place that allows a video lecture in a classroom to be uploaded to Kaltura in a very easy manner.
- User/role management is very important as some people on campus have more privileges to publish content than do others. We have Kaltura connected to our Single Sign-On solution for authentication and we can assign roles to specific people within the Kaltura software.
- When we first began using Kaltura, there was a lack of certain features that were very important to us. One such example was the ability to make a video private but be able to share it with a secret URL. We tried and tried to get support on this issue, but Kaltura were slow to respond and make this (very important) feature part of the software. The software is getting better at a fairly good pace, however.
- Another problem we had with Kaltura was getting our Single Sign-on Authentication system set up properly. We went back and forth for months with their service department, many of whom are located in Israel which makes coordination tough, without any progress. It took us wayyy too long to get our SSO working properly and the assistance we received from Kaltura was always unhelpful. I do think they have improved their customer support over the past year, though.
- The administration interface could be improved to make managing users and videos an easier endeavour. The current interface is confusing for new and even intermediate users to track down videos uploaded by certain users. Once you find videos, the video management tool is kind of clunky as well. The MediaSpace interface's video management tool is also kind of confusing as there are two places where you edit video properties, and each place has different settings for the video. I think the MediaSpace video management could also stand to be improved.
- We have drastically increased our efficiency in the multimedia realm. We used to manually convert videos into their proper formats, then put the video on an HTTP server for consumption. This required a lot of time and resources. Now, we just upload the video to Kaltura and it converts to any format you want and streams perfectly.
- Because of my first point, our customer service has also become much better since we can turn around raw video -> published video in a very short amount of time.
- Using Kaltura, we have also greatly improved our accessibility standards across campus. We can now use closed captioning software to create captions for all of the videos that are uploaded. Before, this was not a feasible option.