[Using Sakai] Kaltura questions

[Daniel Merino]

Hi, everybody.

We are currently researching the Kaltura video platform and its Sakai's 
module from Unicon. At this moment, we are using a Flash video Drupal 
CMS ( http://upnatv.unavarra.es ) to make video available for our 
university, but it lacks of an integration with Sakai and we think that 
Kaltura could fill that gap.

However, we have a couple of questions about it. If somebody who has a 
deeper knowledge of this platform could answer them, we would be very 
grateful.

- We have started using the Unicon server to test the Media Gallery 
tool. It looks great, but when we have uploaded a video, we thought that 
Site's access control would be applied on that video. So one teacher can 
have on Kaltura, through Sakai, their subject's private videos only for 
their students. However, pasting the embed code makes the video publicly 
viewable, even it's not set to be public. Is it possible to pass Sakai's 
access control on Kaltura?

- One of the best features of Drupal are Views, which we use to give the 
sense of having a kind of "Channels". Besides giving video capabilities 
to our Sakai users, we would like to have a front-end portal where 
public videos could be browsed, maybe separating them by categories. It 
seems that Kaltura just gives back-end services and leaves the front-end 
for other platforms, including a module for Drupal.  I would like to 
hear your experiences with this. Could be maintaining a front-end in 
Drupal compatible with the use of Media Gallery on Sakai? Which other 
alternatives are you using out there to have a public viewable and 
browseable front-end?

Thank you in advance.
Best regards.
-- 
Daniel Merino Echeverría
daniel.merino at unavarra.es
Gestor de teleformación - Centro Superior de Innovación Educativa.
Tfno: 948-168489 - Universidad Pública de Navarra.