Process for MIgrating video content from KMC to another CDN

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What are the best practices for migrating video from the Kaltura KMC to another server or CDN?

2

Hello,

KMC is only the front end management console, I suppose you are asking about how to migrate the content?
Please be more specific as to exactly what you’d like to migrate [videos, metadata, partner info, etc] and also, whether or not you are using a self hosted ENV [if so, what version and on what Linux distro] or Kaltura’s SaaS.

3

Yes I’m interested in migrating the content. We are a paying Kaltura customer using the SAAS service so the files are hosted on Akamai.

Really we just need the video files along with the corresponding asset ID’s.

4

You can use the API for that. Note however that when importing back to another account, the IDs will change.

A simple example of how to get the source video URLs using the PHP clientlibs:

$ks = $client->session->start($secret, $userId, $type, $partnerId, $expiry, $privileges);
$client->setKs($ks);
$filter=null;
$total_media_entries = $client->media->count($filter);
$pager = new KalturaFilterPager();
$page_index=1;
$pager->pageSize = 500; 
$processed_entries=0;

while ($processed_entries < $total_media_entries){
    $pager->pageIndex=$page_index;
    $result = $client->media->listAction($filter, $pager);
        foreach ($result->objects as $entry) {
            $filter = new KalturaAssetFilter();
            $filter->entryIdEqual = $entry->id;
            $filter->tagsLike = 'source';
            $pager = null;
            $result = $client->flavorAsset->listAction($filter, $pager);
            if(isset($result->objects[0]->id)){
                $result = $client->flavorAsset->geturl($result->objects[0]->id, null, null, null);
            }    
            if(is_string($result)){
                echo ( $result."\n");
            }    
            $processed_entries++;
        }    
    $page_index++;
}

We have clientlibs for multiple languages which you can find here:
http://www.kaltura.com/api_v3/testme/client-libs.php

You can choose the one you like most.