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Player Plugins

We have plugins for Ad playback, VR and Youbora analytics. (Chromecast and Offline download plugins are in roadmap)

Supported Plugins

Player supports these plugins. Kava and OttAnalytics are part of the package and it is only for the Kaltura BE customers.

Build setup

Kaltura Player allows the following plugins for Android and iOS. You can get the version from the release notes / Maven or Cocoapods of the relevant plugin.

  1. For Android

    • Open android folder of your react-native app in 'Android Studio'.

    • Open build.gradle file of the app.

    • In dependencies add the following plugin dependencies,

       implementation "com.kaltura.playkit:imaplugin:$latest_version"
 implementation "com.kaltura.playkit:youboraplugin:$latest_version"
 implementation "com.kaltura.playkit:broadpeakplugin:$latest_version"

    Note: For Android, VR plugin is not required to be added. It is part of the package itself. Current Android Player version is v4.24.1. It is always recommended to use the same version for plugins like player.

  2. For iOS

    🔴 TODO for iOS

    • Open Podfile of 'iOS' folder of your react-native app.

    • Add the following to

       pod 'PlayKit_IMA'
 pod 'PlayKitYoubora'
 pod 'PlayKitVR'

    Note: For iOS, VR plugin is required to be added.

This is it for the setup on the FE app side. To setup any plugin pass plugin config under plugins in the PlayerInitOptions json.

{
   plugins: {
     pluginName: {
	// Plugin Config
     }
   }
}

pluginName should be taken from Constants

Plugin's setup

  • IMA/IMADAI Ads Configuration

    This configuration can we done when App wants to play the ads along with the content. Our Ad plugin is built on top of Google IMA SDK.

    IMA plugin config. It supports VOD ads.

     "plugins": {
     "ima": {
         "adTagUrl": "https://kaltura.github.io/playkit-admanager-samples/vast/pod-inline-someskip.xml",
         "alwaysStartWithPreroll": true,
         "enableDebugMode": false
     }
 }

    IMADAI plugin config. It supports DAI Live/VOD ads.

     "plugins": {
     "imadai": {
         "assetTitle": "VOD - Tears of Steel",
         "contentSourceId": "2528370",
         "videoId": "tears-of-steel",
         "alwaysStartWithPreroll": true
     }
 }

    More config for IMA ads,

     {
 "language": String,
  	"adTagUrl":String,
  	"adTagResponse":String,
 	"adTagType": [AdtagType](./player-functions.md#constants#IMA_AD_TAG_TYPE),
 	"enableBackgroundPlayback": Boolean,
  	"videoBitrate" : Number,
 	"adAttribution": Boolean,
 	"adCountDown": Boolean,
 	"enableDebugMode": Boolean,
		"alwaysStartWithPreroll": Boolean,
 	"enableFocusSkipButton": Boolean,
 	"enableCustomTabs": Boolean,
  	"adLoadTimeOut": Number,
  	"maxRedirects": Number,
 	"contentDuration" : Float Number,
  	"playerType": String,
  	"playerVersion": String,
  	"sessionId": String,
 	"videoMimeTypes": List_of_String,
 }

    Note: Currently our package does not support FriendlyObstruction and CompanionAds.

    More config for IMADAI ads,

     {
 	"assetTitle": String,
 	"assetKey":String,
 	"apiKey":String,
 	"contentSourceId": String,
 	"videoId" : String,
 	"streamFormat": [Stream Format](./player-functions.md#constants#IMADAI_STREAM_FORMAT),
 	"licenseUrl": String,
 	"adTagParams": {{"key": "value"}},
 	"streamActivityMonitorId" : String,
 	"authToken": String ,
 	"language": String,
 	"adCountDown": Boolean,
 	"enableDebugMode": Boolean,
 	"alwaysStartWithPreroll": Boolean,
 	"enableFocusSkipButton": Boolean,
 	"enableCustomTabs": Boolean,
 	"adLoadTimeOut": Number,
 	"maxRedirects": Number,
 	"playerType": String,
 	"playerVersion": String,
 	"sessionId": String
 }

  • Youbora Configuration

    Following configuration can be passed for the youbora setup,

     plugins: {
    pluginName: {
       params:{
 	 // Plugin Config
       }		
    }
 }

    Note: For Youbora plugin, under pluginName, params are mandatory to be passed. Under params youbora config should be passed.

     "plugins": {
           "youbora": {
             "params": {
               "accountCode": "kalturatest",
               "username": "test_rn"
               }
             }
           }
         }

    Other helpful Youbora configs,

     	      "youbora": {
 		"params": {
 		  "accountCode": "kalturatest",
 		  "username": "test_rn",
 		  "userEmail": "test_rn@mobile.com",
 		  "userAnonymousId": "user_anonymous_Id",
 		  "userType": "user_type",
 		  "houseHoldId": "zxzxz",
 		  "userObfuscateIp": true,
 		  "httpSecure": true,
 		  "transportFormat": "transportFormat",
 		  "urlToParse": "urlToParse",
 		  "linkedViewId": "linkedViewId",
 		  "isAutoStart": true,
 		  "isAutoDetectBackground": true,
 		  "isEnabled": true,
 		  "isForceInit": true,
 		  "isOffline": false,
 		  "haltOnError": false,
 		  "enableAnalytics": true,
 		  "enableSmartAds": true,
 		  "content": {
 		  "contentBitrate": 640000,
 		  "contentCdn": "a",
 		  "contentCdnNode": "b",
 		  "contentCdnType": "c",
 		  "contentChannel": "d",
 		  "contentContractedResolution": "720p",
 		  "contentCost": "122",
 		  "contentDrm": "e",
 		  "contentDuration": 1200000,
 		  "contentEncodingAudioCodec": "ec-3",
 		  "contentEncodingCodecProfile": "f",
 		  "contentEncodingContainerFormat": "g",
 		  "contentEncodingVideoCodec": "h",
 		  "contentEpisodeTitle": "title2",
 		  "contentFps": 60,
 		  "contentGenre": "drama",
 		  "contentGracenoteId": "i",
 		  "contentId": "1st_media",
 		  "contentImdbId": "j",
 		  "contentIsLive": false,
 		  "contentIsLiveNoSeek": false,
 		  "contentLanguage": "en",
 		  "contentPackage": "aaa",
 		  "contentPlaybackType": "bbb",
 		  "contentPrice": 10000,
 		  "contentProgram": "program",
 		  "contentRendition": "22223",
 		  "contentSaga": "ccc",
 		  "contentSeason": "ddd",
 		  "contentStreamingProtocol": "applehttp",
 		  "contentSubtitles": "en",
 		  "contentThroughput": 1230000,
 		  "contentTitle": "title",
 		  "contentTransactionCode": "dssd",
 		  "contentTotalBytes": 123344,
 		  "contentSendTotalBytes": false,
 		  "contentTvShow": "sadsa",
 		  "contentType": "drama"
 		  }
 		}
 	      }

    Note: If FE app wants to show the logs of underlying Youbora plugin then for Android, it can add the following in the native Android app side. App can choose the log level from the Youbora plugin.

     YouboraLog.setDebugLevel(YouboraLog.Level.DEBUG);

  • Broadpeak Configuration

             "plugins": {
           "broadpeak": {
             "analyticsAddress": String,
             "nanoCDNHost": String,
             "broadpeakDomainNames": String, // "*" for everything
             "uuid": String,
 			"deviceType": String,
 			"userAgent": String,
 			"nanoCDNResolvingRetryDelay": 10000, // In Milliseconds
 			"nanoCDNHttpsEnabled": Boolean,
 			"adCustomReference": String,
 			"adParameters": json with <String String> Key/Value pairs,
 			"customParameters": json with <String String> Key/Value pairs,
 			"options": json with <Number Object> Key/Value pairs,
           }
         }

    More info about Broadpeak Plugin android integration in Android side can be found here.

    🔴 Currently not available in iOS

Update Plugin Config

Updating the plugin config is handy while changing to another media. Suppose FE wants to play another 'Ad' for the next media then FE can pass another config with new Ad to the player.

App can call the following with the updated plugin's config,

	const updatedIMAPlugin = {
		   "ima": {
			"adTagUrl": "https://kaltura.github.io/playkit-admanager-samples/vast/pod-inline-someskip.xml",
			"alwaysStartWithPreroll": true,
			"enableDebugMode": false
		   }
		  };

	KalturaPlayerAPI.updatePluginConfigs(JSON.stringify(updatedIMAPlugin));