What is the future of Kaltura?

I'd love to know more info on the next version too & the date of release if any!

Keen to hear more. Would be interesting to know also how many people who actively use the powerful Drupal + Kaltura combo are actually using this module to glue it together.

Yes, there are plans, we will be releasing the drupal module in a week or two.
We are currently building for Drupal 6, we will release a Drupal 7 version after the drupal 7 official release.
The new version is currently in state of internal testing.

Great to hear. As I wanted to get started for a current project, I'd begun work on a version with a few changes (eg more flexible templating) over at http://github.com/GiantRobot/drupal-kaltura - that version includes a few patches which are already in the issue queue here too.

Will look forward to the release of your updated version shortly - thanks for the update Gonen!

Btw, of course you're welcome to grab any of the enhancements available from my GitHub. I got started on templated players (so the player embed code can be overridden more easily in the theme layer) and a callback so you don't need to install a crossdomain.xml file. The download there also includes patches from several other issues currently RTBC in Kaltura contrib.

I hadn't posted back here about it until now because I wanted to get them ready for primetime, but knowing that you're about to roll a release, I should flag with you that they're there for the taking.

EDIT: Discovered that there's more up-to-date work on the Kaltura module available at http://www.kaltura.org/kalorg/drupal if you want to get on the bleeding edge. More details at http://www.kaltura.org/project/video_drupal_module

You are awesome Chris! Thanks for the updated link!

The sad thing is that we won't see the Kaltura's Andromeda CE release for the next couple months.

I've attached the packaged version of Kaltuar Andromeda Drupal Module for Drupal 6. It was last updated 5 days ago and it's not yet complete.

(update: the file I've uploaded got screwed up during the upload process... you might have to rename it into .tar.gz and extract it for it to work)

While the discussion got a bit more specific after the first post, I think this comment fits with the initial subject:

Given that it seems Drupal is leaning toward an amalgamated Media module in the future (and possibly more central to D7), how does Kaltura fit, in that it provides its own? Can this be reconciled so that the highly supported Drupal module will still work?

Development of the Media module is going full speed ahead, as you can see from the FAQ. It seems it's preparing to replace all other media modules. Seems efforts are being duplicated...

Any thoughts guys?

I posted something to the Media module queue a few days ago:
#800060: Compatability with Kaltura framework

Hi,
Media module seems to be at very early stages, and still not stable. once it will be stable, and especially if it will become a part of D7 core, we at kaltura will be more then happy to integrate with it.
until then, i think that the kaltura module offers the best solution out there for video upload, editing, and management. it is stable and ready, and the new version of it will be officially released this week.
Ariel.

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Will the new version of the module support embedding the video in HTML5?

Thanks,
Ben

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Ariel, just spotted your "new version to be released this week" comment above.

Seems you've got some hot info there. Can you tell us more?

Gonen,
Would the new module allow to insert inline with text, images and videos from Kaltura CE server ?

Any update on the module... I was so planning it would be released in may, it seems it's over a month overdue:( Maybe we can offer help with it

Timofey, if you want to grab a copy of the module, you can do so from the following URLs -

* http://www.kaltura.org/kalorg/drupal/ Official Kaltura SVN (need to check out via SVN, grab the Andromeda release, and consider it a pre-release)
* http://github.com/GiantRobot/drupal-kaltura (my working version of Kaltura's Andromeda SVN so also pre-release, includes a few fixes and extras, look for "Download Source" in the top right to grab a tarball)

I am happy for anyone to add issues on the version in my Github. Fixes created there will be submitted back to Kaltura for inclusion. (This lets us work on a "community" version without needing to tread on Kaltura's toes.)

Kaltura team, if you have a preferred way for us to work on fixes on Andromeda, please let me know so I'm not diverting contributors from the core project?

Thank you for all of your work on this.

GiantRobot-drupal-kaltura-adcdad8 is throwing this error a lot on my site:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'KalturaException' with message 'Entry id "" not found' in /home/mysite/public_html/sites/all/modules/kaltura/kaltura_client/KalturaClientBase.php:310 Stack trace: #0 /home/mysite/public_html/sites/all/modules/kaltura/kaltura_client/KalturaClient.php(3615): KalturaClientBase->throwExceptionIfError(Array) #1 /home/mysite/public_html/sites/all/modules/kaltura/plugins/field_kaltura/field_kaltura.module(225): KalturaMixingService->get('') #2 /home/mysite/public_html/sites/all/modules/kaltura/plugins/field_kaltura/field_kaltura.module(175): create_node_kaltura(Object(stdClass), Array, 'Kaltura_Media_R...') #3 /home/mysite/public_html/profiles/uberdrupal/modules/cck/content.module(1253): field_kaltura_field('insert', Object(stdClass), Array, Array, NULL, NULL) #4 /home/mysite/public_html/profiles/uberdrupal/modules/cck/content.module(288): _content_field_invoke('insert', Object(stdClass)) #5 /home/mysite/public_html/profiles/uberdrupal/modules/cck/content.module(422): content_insert in /home/mysite/public_html/sites/all/modules/kaltura/kaltura_client/KalturaClientBase.php on line 310

@colorado - thanks for the report. However, with any problems you've found in the version hosted on my GitHub, please let's not add issues to this official issue queue UNLESS we can duplicate the issue against the SVN release from KalOrg. Add issues on Github (I expect you'll need a login), and if we decide they apply to Kaltura's Andromeda, we'll get the issue reported back here in its own issue for the Kaltura team to know about it.

(Recommended reading: [How to report bugs effectively], [How to make an issue report], [Searching the issue queues].)

_{EDIT: @colorado I've added your issue at http://github.com/GiantRobot/drupal-kaltura/issues/issue/8 but I will need you to provide more information on how to reproduce it. Please do this on Github.}

@kaltura team - if you do want people reporting issues against Andromeda SVN, would you mind creating a CVS branch and dev release so we can assign them to 6.x-2.x-dev instead of 1.4?

@grobot
Wow, you're awesome for staying on top of it! I'll jump in as soon as I get a chance! We've got to get things going.

Out of curiosity, how do you test this new Kaltura Module without a copy of Kaltura Andromedia CE?

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The modules (6 and 7) are well maintained and with clear roadmap plans:
#917796: Kaltura 6.x-2.0 (release coordination)
#1019652: Port Kaltura to Drupal 7

I'm closing this as this issue will end up not being updated. if you're interested in updates, follow the issue tracker via email/rss and review the above coordination issues.