Kaltura Bulk Upload using RTMP link

Question

We have a number of videos on an Adobe server which uses rtmp to make the videos accessible.

Now we are migrating all the video content to a mediaspace using kaltura.

We are wondering if it is possible to use Bulk Upload CSV to directly upload RTMP media content.

Example file url for rtmp looks like this: rtmp://mywebspace.com/myvideo.flv

Answer 1

Kaltura doesn't allow RTMP links for its CSV or XML bulk upload options but maybe you could do it through RTMPT.

Here's the documentation about allowed protocols:

The comments at the top of the sample bulk upload CSV (Falcon version) state:

Kaltura supports the following protocols: http; https; ftp.

It also doesn't seem possible to ingest via an RTMP link using their more robust XML bulk upload option. According to the XML schema, they allow ingestion via HTTP(S), FTP, SCP and SFTP as well as some other non-RTMP options.

I tested to make sure it wouldn't accept it and I got two validation errors in the XML, the first stating that the text didn't match the correct pattern (starting with HTTP(S)/(S)FTP/FCP) and the second that it's not a valid type 'T_url" value.

Here's the full list of "content resource" options from the XML schema page:

serverFileContentResource - Specifies that the location of content ingestion is on a Kaltura-hosted server. By default, this option is not available to Kaltura partners.

urlContentResource - Specifies that the location of content ingestion is a URL (http/ftp)

sshUrlContentResource - Specifies that the location of content ingestion is a URL (scp/sftp)

remoteStorageContentResource - Specifies that the location of content ingestion is a path within a remote storage defined in Kaltura. Using this option, only a link to the content location is set from the entry, without actually uploading content to Kaltura.

entryContentResource - Specifies that the source of content ingestion is the content of an existing Kaltura entry.

assetContentResource - Specifies that the source of content ingestion is a specific asset of an existing Kaltura entry.