Kaltura Player for Android

Kaltura Player - This Playkit wrapper simplifies the player integration so that client applications will require less boilerplate code, which ensures a faster integration.

Kaltura Player Features:

Playback:

• DASH
• HLS
• MP4
• MP3
• Multicast(udp)
• Multiple Codecs support
• Live / Live DVR
• TrackSelection (Video/Audio/Text)
• External subtitles
• Player Rate
• ABR Configuration
• VR /360
• Dash Instream Thumbnails
• Change Media
• Playlist
• ID3 Timed Metadata
• Screen recording blocking
• Playback Adapter - allow app to change the manifest url query param or headers changes

DRM:

• Widevine
• Playready
• DRM Adapter - allow app to change license url query param or headers changes

Analytics:

• Kaltura Kava (Kaltura Advanced Video Analytics)
• Phoenix Analytics
• Youbora (NPAW)

Monitization:

• IMA
• DAI
• Ad Schedualer
• Ad Warterfalling
• Ad-Hoc Ad playback

CDN:

• Broadpeak
• NPAW Smart Switch

Offline:

• Download to go
• Prefetch (preloading)

Casting:

• Google Cast

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Gradle Dependency: implementation 'com.kaltura.player:tvplayer:4.x.x' + add mavenCentral() in repositories section

This dependency already includes Playkit, Kava Analytics Player Providers and Download-to-Go libraries internally, so no need to add them to the client app's build.gradle.

Kaltura Player Migration Guide

Kaltura Player Docs

Kaltura Player OVP Samples

Kaltura Player OTT Samples

Kaltura Player Basic Player Samples

Kaltura Player Advanced Samples

Kaltura Player Offline Sample

Pre-requisite

Player Initialization

Client application should call a mandatory initialization method calls at the time of application Launch or in the project's Application class file or the SplashActivity.

KalturaPlayer.initializeOTT(this, OTT_PARNTER_ID, OTT_SERVER_URL); KalturaPlayer.initializeOVP(this, OVP_PARNTER_ID, OVP_SERVER_URL);

OTT Ex.

public static final String OTT_SERVER_URL = "https://rest-us.ott.kaltura.com/v4_5/"; public static final int OTT_PARNTER_ID = 3009;

Note:

Without calling the initialization code on startup KalturaPlayerNotInitializedError, error will be fired on the player.loadMedia callback phase.

Warmup

Application can use the warmup connections for its specific CDN servers URLs where the medias are hosted so a connection to the hosts will be opened and ready for use so all handshake process will be saved and media playback will be faster.

There should be only one URL per host, and the URLs should resolve to a valid path names. A good choice might be favicon.ico or crossdomain.xml after the host name.

If application wants to use connection warmer mechanism then this call will be placed at the time of application Launch or in the project's Application class file.

/*
Set the http provider. Valid options are "system" (use the build-in {@linkplain java.net.HttpURLConnection}) 
and "okhttp" (use Square's <a href="https://square.github.io/okhttp/">OkHttp</a> library).
*/ 
PKHttpClientManager.setHttpProvider("okhttp");
PKHttpClientManager.warmUp (
      "https://https://rest-us.ott.kaltura.com/crossdomain.xml",
      "http://cdnapi.kaltura.com/favicon.ico",
      "https://cdnapisec.kaltura.com/favicon.ico",
      "https://cfvod.kaltura.com/favicon.ico"
      );     

Kaltura Player configurations

Media Providers

1. OTT
2. OVP
3. Basic (For those client apps which don't use Kaltura Backend)

Please check the samples for Media Providers here

Application should create PlayerInitOptions.

Initializing OTT/OVP Player

For initialization of OTT Player use OTT_PARTNER_ID and for initialization if OVP player useOVP_PARTNER_ID

Example:

val mediaOptions = buildMediaOptions()
        player?.loadMedia(mediaOptions) { entry, loadError ->
            if (loadError != null) {
                Snackbar.make(findViewById(android.R.id.content), loadError.message, Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG).show()
            } else {
                log.d("onEntryLoadComplete  entry = " + entry.id)
            }
}

OR

Initializing Basic Player

Example:

  fun loadPlaykitPlayer(pkMediaEntry: PKMediaEntry) {
        val playerInitOptions = PlayerInitOptions()

        player = KalturaBasicPlayer.create(this@MainActivity, playerInitOptions)
        player?.setPlayerView(FrameLayout.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, FrameLayout.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT)

        val container = player_root
        container.addView(player?.playerView)
        player?.setMedia(pkMediaEntry, START_POSITION)
    }

Notes

In playerInitOptions the default value for player autoplay is true.

In playerInitOptions the default value for player media preload from the BE is true.