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Video Streaming Reviews

We can offer you information on how to make an educated decision when choosing a video streaming system. Lots of options are available. This can make the process of choosing the appropriate video streaming company quite time consuming. Our video streaming reviews are broken into three categories:

Affordable Video Streaming Systems

FLVhosting.com Review

Mid Tier Systems, often with easy user interfaces

Kaltura

Vzaar Review

High Level Systems Which Have Hi Level Integration Capabilities

Bitgravity Review

LimeLight Networks

Kaltura Alternative

Has anybody tried this company http://vzaar.com/ They are claiming to be a kaltura alternative with cheaper streaming packages.

50GB playback bandwidth

100 GB Storage
1 x iOS Stream
$49/mo

100 GB playback bandwidth

100 GB Storage
1 x iOS Stream
$99/mo

300 GB playback bandwidth

1 TB Storage
3 x iOS Streams
$199/mo

700 GB playback bandwidth

1 TB Storage
Unlimited Storage
Overages:3 x iOS Streams
$399/mo

Sample Player Vzaar Video Player – Alternative to Kaltura Player

Does anybody else have any experience with this video streaming technology? Please comment on Vzarr or Kaltura below.

Making Kaltura Media Node Private

I have a drupal ubercart kaltura video implementation.

When adding a Kaltura video inside a Drupal node, it creates a Kaltura Media Node, which I am unable to set permissions on, or when I do, they to not take effect.

How do I restrict people from accessing these auto-generated nodes?

Upgrade Kaltura to 6.x-2.0-beta | Upgrade Drupal | Kaltura Control Panel

After two years of using and old version of Drupal 6.14 and old version of Kaltura module 6.x-1.4 , we decided to bite the bullet and upgrade both at the same time.

Our Kaltura uploader stopped working inside our version of Drupal, so we needed to do something.

After agreeing to sign a new 1 year contract, Kaltura offered us two hours of support to help with the upgrade, and assigned a project manager. They tried to raise the price, but being a small company, we balked and they came around to meeting our original pricing.

Kaltura Upgrade – Required Information

Questions from Project manager.

I would like to sum up the information I gathered. I also added some questions that I could not find the answer to:

1. You are currently on Drupal 6.14 and would like to upgrade to Drupal 6.22.

2. What version of the Kaltura module are you currently using?

Kaltura 6.x-1.4 on the live site.

3. I understand that you have an issue uploading ( will get to it after the upgrade), I would like to understand – since you upgraded Drupal on a local machine – Is the upload issue present on it or on the live account?

The upload issue exists on both versions. Remember -I did not upgrade the drupal module yet.

4. What is the link to the current site? Does it require any credentials? (I would like to take a look at the site)

Login and look around.If you create a new Kaltura node, you will notice the kaltura field with uploader. This is where the upload fails to register into the local system.

5. Do you have the ability to create a staging environment for a test site? I would suggest using a test site so you will be able to give me admin permissions to it but not to the live one.

If you think this is necessary, could I is a sub directory of the main site, and just .htaccess protect?

6. Besides UberCart, what other Modules are installed?

The below has been copied from the updated version on my local machine. Anything with a security vulnerability has been updated.

Kaltura Upgrade – Implementation

After going back and fourth, we decided to back the site up, put it in maintenance mode, and upgrade Drupal, all vulnerable modules, and the Kaltura video module all at once.

I did the following:

Put site in maintenance mode
Switched to default theme, and turned off all other themes
Upgraded Drupal Core
Turned all modules back on
Upgraded all vulnerable modules
Upgraded the Kaltura Module
Turned my Black Mamba Theme back On
Testing

Fixing Problems After Kaltura Upgrade

My note to project manager:

The upgrade of Drupal and all vulnerable modules including Kaltura have been updated.

1. It looks like our player has been blown over – it has share buttons on it – this is a private video. We need to make sure that all videos are private when uploaded to new Kaltura control panel as well. Please advise.
2. Under the video, it is displaying the embed code of the video, which never happened before and we obviously do not want.
3. If you add a 7day video content type, which includes a kaltura node, the uploader is still not working and it freezes. I am wondering if the SSL could be the issue, as you mentioned might happen?
4. In the Kaltura Settings, I have this message: Kaltura to Drupal Notification Status: Test call not yet implemented; see [#1025090]

Project Manager Responses:

1. Change the player Id in the Drupal Kaltura Module setting to any player that you wish from the studio. The share button is easy to remove from within the studio.

Our old player is gone – no big deal – I rebuilt it, and assigned it to the Media Node and Media Remix settings and everything is working nicely.Do you recommend SMTP or HTTP streaming?

Also, you can add access control on all your videos to be only available in your domain

I was unable to find this setting. In the past that was a site wide function that was done by your team. Please advise.

2. I do believe that this is another option that can be removed from the module settings.

Can’t find the setting to remove text and code for embed code under player.

3. I will send you a different UIconf id for this widget that should resolve this issue. Can you send me a link to the uploader location? I will need to clone it..

Final Observations of Kaltura Upgrade

In the end, after rebuilding the player, and with a little final help from Kaltura Technical support, we were able to get all our Kaltura functionality back within 24 hours. Not bad.

The biggest problem we had was the addition of Embed code of this video: showing up under the new Kaltura player after upgrade.

BitGravity Video Review

Bit-gravity claims to be the world’s largest Tier 1 network for unsurpassed scale, reliability, and performance.

We have all heard that before, it seems all streaming video companies make similiar claims.

Maybe they all share the same network?

BitGravity does have some reasonably priced packages . . if you are looking for consistent load times across a large geographical location, bit gravity may be a good choice for you. If you sign up, you get access to test the toolset. From the Bitgravity.com Website

For organizations that want to deliver the best possible video experience, BG Video Delivery enables content owners to deliver videos on

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FLVHosting.com Review

FLVhosting.com is a good option if you are small potatoes.

They have starter packages starting at $10.o0, while a company like Kaltura will start you out at $250 – $300.

Pretty cheap for video streaming packages. The technology works.

You are not going to get the quick video loading performance of a system like BitGravity.

FLVhosting.com Starter Package

All packages from flvhost.com come with Progressive and RTMP Streaming hosting account with FLV Media Server RTMP playback, PHP MYSQL FLV Hosting Encoder and our encode on the fly FLV Code Generator to insert video into any web pages, to create your own

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