Hi All,
I am trying to embed an unlisted kaltura video in an arc gis story map. It throws an error “This URL was not recognized, please try a different link,” when I try to insert the kaltura link. If I paste in a youtube link it works fine and the video plays. Anyone run into this yet? Any ideas? I am in chat w/Kaltura chat now but thought I would post this up for the wider new community. Thanks
Test Story Map w/ youtube test in it (set to public)
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/2f0e5cbc3f6249aaa40dbb8ea8fc41d0TEst
Unlisted test 360 clip I want to embed (unlisted):
Hi @hafford.
First of all, making the video unlisted is unfortunately not enough, because, when content entitlement is enforced (which is the default), it will only make the video playable within KMS/KAF context.
If you want it to be available/playable from a third party system (and arcgis.com falls under that category), you will need to either associate the entry ID in question (1_pa42hlsr in this case) with a category for which content entitlement is not enforced (you’ll need to create such a category in KMC or using the API) or, generate a KS which you will need to pass as part of the URL you set in Arc GIS. Since a KS has an expiry date, it should not be a static string.
Secondly, I wasn’t able to easily ascertain from their docs what format they expect to receive for a video URL.
If they support HLS manifests, then the URL for the entry above would be:
Otherwise, you could try progressive serving, like this:
Documentation for the content entitlement mechanism is available here:
https://developer.kaltura.com/api-docs/Secure_Control_and_Govern/Content-Categories-Management.html
The different playManifest options are documented here:
https://developer.kaltura.com/api-docs/Deliver-and-Distribute-Media/playManifest-streaming-api.html
Cheers,