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Developer Resources

Kaltura Players Framework Developer Resources. Learn how to build plugins, customize the player, use the API, test and tweak performance. Check us out on GitHub and join the project.

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Kaltura HTML5 Library Docs & Guides

Kaltura HTML5 FAQ A detailed list of frequenly used configuration options
OnPage Plugins Documentation about building on page plugins

Kaltura Knowledge Center»

Getting Started

To get started with player v2 please read the skin and component guide.

Setup and Embed

The Kaltura Management Console ( KMC ) provides four embedding options:
- AutoEmbed: Single line of script! Great for quickly getting a player on the page.
- Dynamic Embed: Great for code integration in web apps. Responsive web-design friendly. Cleaner configuration.
- Thumbnail embed: Fast loading, great for pages with lots of players. Best used in video-blogs.
- Iframe: Single line of HTML! Great for when JS is not allowed. Best option for Share/Embed players.

Overview

Complete API and Player integration overview doc ( PDF )
Unified Flash and HTML5 API
Intelligent per-platform player selection
Open Source and Widely Used.

Kaltura Player Toolkit ( v2 )

Kaltura Player Toolkit; HTML5 first player across platforms

JSON config
CSS based skins with state classes
Simple plugins with extended base component classes
Native iOS and Android components

Legacy: Kaltura Flash Player� aka KDP3

Kaltura Dynamic Player is a Flash based media player
An XML configuration file defines its layout, behavior and visual elements/skin. The XML is dubbed uiConf
Flash KDP is based Open Source Standards:

Adobe OSMF
PureMVC
Yahoo! Astra
Fl Components
Kaltura ActionScript 3 Client Library

kWidget API

kWidget.embed – Dynamic Embed
kWidget.thumbEmbed – Thumbnail Embed
kWidget.getKalturaThumbUrl – Get thumbnail URL
kWidget.addReadyCallback – Add event listener, listen to when players on the page are ready for JS binding
kWidget.destory – Removes the player from the DOM

Player JavaScript API - Basic Example

Log Player Id to Console, once Player is Ready to Play

kWidget.embed({
		'targetId': 'myVideoTarget',
		'wid': '_243342',
		'uiconf_id' : '12905712',
		'entry_id' : '0_uka1msg4',
		'readyCallback': function( playerId ){
			console.log( "Hello World, playerId: " + playerId );
		}
});