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Video Cloud APIs and Developer Tools
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Get to market faster adding native media asset management and experience capabilities that scale effortlessly. Use Kaltura’s fully white-labeled platform and developer tools to power all things video, audio and image, including; secure hosting and streaming, html5 video player, asset management, video editing, video search, interactive video experiences, media transcoding, image transformations, deep media analytics and more. With Kaltura VPaaS, you get full control over provisioning, branding, and workflows. Stay focused on your core business by relying on the same video infrastructure that powers mission-critical applications for leading multi-national enterprises and media companies. Your developers and customers will love you for it!

Build Video Apps that Scale

  • Manage video, audio and image assets at scale
  • Cloud video transcoding and image manipulation
  • Optimized storage and media repurposing workflows
  • The most advanced video analytics
  • The fastest online video player for web and native
  • Multi-account management, billing and provisioning
  • Fully OEM, white-labeling ready platform
  • Never-break backward compatibility
  • High availability, enterprise and government certified
  • Trusted by multi-national enterprises, governments, and global media companies to power their most critical video infrastructure

The Media Services Cloud Platform


Upload, Transcode and Deliver Media


Online Video Player & Video SDKs


Video Workflows & Media Enrichment


Video & Image Transformation API


Intelligent Video Search API


Deep Media Analytics API


Video Capture and Authoring Tools


Immersive Video Experience Tools


Video Applications Framework

Upload, Transcode and Deliver Media

Ingest data and media assets of any size or format from any source including optimized file upload SDKs for parallel-chunked upload with pause-resume and bandwidth optimizations, support for Aspera high-speed file transfer protocol, remote storage or automatic ingestion from drop-folders, or utilize CSV/XML/MRSS based bulk-upload to automate your media ingestion workflows.

Use Kaltura's distributed cloud transcoding API to automate the management of all your encoding workflows. Transcode media from any input source including support for all popular video, audio and image formats and codecs as well as many proprietary codecs (such as ProRes, WebEx, GTM, and more), creating target renditions optimized for all devices and systems whether for web publishing, broadcasting, studio archival, or secure internal enterprise applications.

Use Kaltura's on-the-fly video packaging to ensure optimized storage of your video assets, with reliable global delivery over any format including HLS, DASH, Progressive, encoded and DRM delivery from single-source mp4 files, without duplicating your storage costs. The Kaltura platform automatically ensures the most reliable delivery and playback on any device and network globally (including support for enterprise virtualization platforms).

Online Video Player & Video SDKs

The fastest, most reliable online video player serving several billions of views and tested across thousands of devices. The Kaltura Video Player simplifies live and VOD playback, and supports DRM, video monetization (optimized ad delivery, background loading, stream stitching and more), streaming and user engagement analytics, full accessibility compliance, subtitles and captions, interactivity, multi-audio tracks, casting to Google Chromecast, 360 Video and VR gear support, Progressive Web Apps, HEVC, VP9 and more. Available as a single JavaScript ES6 bundle file of ~100KB, default streaming over HLS and DASH, with a robust plugins architecture, standardized event names and modularity that enable fast time to market of new features and apps.

Reach viewers on any device over native applications; including Apple iOS, Andriod, Roku, and others. KalturaNative App SDKs are used as light wrappers that enhance & simplify the native OS player as a single chromeless component and a set of template UI components that can be extended or customized natively by the app developer. Available on CocoaPods and JCenter, featuring AppleTV and AndroidTV support, streaming over HLS, DASH, support for Offline Playback, DRM, and more.

Build and deliver interactive video experiences with captions and transcriptions, multi-language subtitles and multi-track audio in an Accessibility Certified (Section 508, WCAG 2.0, CVAA) Video Player used by many universities, enterprises and media companies globally. Create advanced moderation workflows that ensure compliance before publishing, and reach your audience with accessible video capabilities including screen readers support, keyboard controls, interactive player transcript widget, speaker ID and topics and chaptering. Captioning services triggered as automatic rules (e.g. all in tags, or categories).

Video Workflows & Media Enrichment

Use templates and custom metadata profiles to automate ingestion and transcoding and distribution workflows. Automatically set transcoding profiles based on input metadata, or push transformed content packages (assets and metadata) to other destinations such as YouTube, Facebook, and other File, Feed or API based systems.

Seamless integration with any 3rd party media analysis system, with a smart metadata transformation and indexing layers to provided centrally managed media enrichment workflows at ease and scale. Create video transcriptions, subtitles and captions across many languages, create automatic workflows and notification triggers based on deep video analysis. Generate automatic speech to text, or professional human captions, or translate your videos into many languages to reach global audiences. Apply semantic analysis to extract metadata and topics for search facets, content categorization, and improved Video SEO and add speaker identification and automatic chaptering for improved user experience. Even includes a DIY Captions Editor and automatic transcript alignment to allow your users to help create captions and ensure accessibility compliance.

Video & Image Transformation API

Kaltura's Media Services provide a wide range of authoring and editing tools, ranging from image manipulation APIs through watermarks and overlays, video clipping and trimming, multiple audio streams, audio noise reduction and normalizing volume levels, control over advanced optimization video transcoding filters.

Improve your applications performance with Kaltura's high-performance video and image transformation API. Our real-time image and video-frames manipulation REST API allows you to dynamically manipulate images and capture video-frames on the fly while controlling; format and codec encoding, image re-sizing, smart image cropping, compression quality controls, generation of image-sprites for optimal delivery as animated CSS sprites, applying image overlays and more. Manage saved image-transformations as static assets that can be used when distributing content packages to other systems via feeds or API, to improve your website SEO.

Intelligent Video Search API

Highly optimized library and in-video search API featuring multi-language, synonyms, highlighting, partial search, custom fields indexing, time-based cue-points search, range and date filters and even saved searches. Indexing & Search in all languages across all types of basic and custom metadata; including captions and subtitles for deep in-video temporal search results, inside video cue-points, annotations & chapters. Search through in-video polls, quizzes and answers, inside synchronized presentation slides, across related file attachments, all custom data entries, advanced dates and range filters, suggested results, synonyms and related content. Create automatic workflows based on metadata rules (e.g. Send Email when Video Tag = X), and create user-defined saved search views.

Deep Media Analytics API

Make decisions based on real data, and leave speculation behind. Using video-optimized analytics BI and reports you'll provide your users with insights and power your products with advanced workflows and optimized experiences. Including deep user-level video analytics, engagement and interactivity reports, infrastructure usage reports, device and streaming reports and custom reports. Track user content contributions, playback experience, end-user progress and interaction, sharing and syndications, transcoding, storage and bandwidth metrics, and more. And share analytics data with certified integrations including Google Analytics, Adobe Heartbeat, Nielsen, Comscore, Chartbeat, Youbora, and more. Monitor live events in real time or compare historical data to understand utilization, identify and solve problems, and make informed decisions. A convenient console displays number and locations of concurrent users as well as quality of service metrics for multiple live streams.

Video Capture and Authoring Tools

Add user-friendly personal video capture (webrtc and desktop apps) to your products with automatic slide sync & chapters. Automated interactivity and indexing brings video capture to all your users, powering engaging in-app video creation experiences for viewers in a deeply integrated and secure way. Easily create multi-stream video recordings that allow for interactive video experiences with chapters, in-video search and side-by-side viewing, search inside PowerPoints slides during playback, edit chapters and switch or swap slides at any time. Use our video editing tools and video editing API to create short clips from your videos, trimming, splicing/cutout, while maintaining cue-points and realigning captions.

Video APIs to create, capture and edit live and on-demand video, audio and image assets along with metadata and related content. And upload from any source, any file format or codec, on any device. Aggregate content and metadata from many sources automatically at scale via API, XML, MRSS feeds, drop folders, SSH, sFTP, Aspera, and more. Use optimized video storage and tools to govern your video workflows, including templates management, robust custom metadata management and indexing, and automatic metadata enrichment. Use cloud media services to simplify your video transcoding, image transformations and thumbnails generation at the highest quality and large scale.

Immersive Video Experience Tools

Add immersive video experiences to your applications to boost user engagement, participation and conversion. Put the viewer in control of their video journey, creating relevance for the viewer, and a personal sense of participation. Include hotspots in the video that when clicked, will change the narrative of the story within the video, creating a branching experience. Or hotspots that access ancillary information, such as launching an overlay or slider with more information or initiating a PDF download, or adding in-video call to actions. Create, in-video tests, and track comprehension through interactive video quizzes, easy to use self-contained player plugins for creating quizzes inside your video, audio or YouTube video entries. Simple to embed and integrate into your own apps via API. Including; multiple choice questions, reflection points, hints, user feedback, and scoring. Collect reports on user comprehension and share data to hosting LMS gradebooks and custom adaptive learning workflows.

Video Applications Framework

Streamlines the integration of video tools and rich media capabilities into your applications with an extensible, feature-rich, UI-based, configurable framework to streamline integration of video components and workflows into hosting systems such as CMS, LMS and ECM systems with LTI and SSO. Pick and choose from a set of video workflows and pre-packaged iframe components, built on the robust Kaltura API, including; media upload, video gallery, video browse & embed tool for WYSIWYG editors, video search and more. Enjoy full cross-device and mobile support for all components, responsive design and automatic device detection and benefit from having all components easily customized over CSS, designed and localized for international use. Easily connect with plugins, developed both by Kaltura and Kaltura partners to extend with new features.

Case Studies

  • NNIT - case study
    Enhancing Healthcare with Video in NNIT | Using video to make medicine accessible and reduce patient misuse with on-medicine mobile video QR codes
    NNIT - Medicine Video Instructions Platform for Pharmaceuticals
  • 2U- case study
    2U Personalized distance learning providing full degrees from leading accredited universities | "Leveraging the platform APIs, 2U melded Kaltura functionalities into a new disruptive online learning platform based on video.”
    2U - Accredited Online Degree Programs Platform
  • An educational content marketplace and libraries | "Our partnership with Kaltura means that we can offload some of the technology evolution that we were trying to do ourselves and really focus on our core competencies"
    Infobase Publishing | Educational Content Marketplace
  • Thomson Reuters Case Study
    A contextual video search and distribution platform serving banks, trading desks and financial risk news consumers | "Kaltura technology has helped us move our content and business offering forward, consolidate under one flexible API and provide our users with robust and intelligent media widgets and applications."
    Thomson Reuters Corporation - Financial News Distribution & Alerts