In addition to contributing its core server as an open source video platform offering, Kaltura makes use of many third party FOSS projects. This session will walk attendees through major projects used by the Kaltura platform to ingest, analyze, optimize, record and play video files, and provide guidance in optimizing use

The following projects and their role in our architecture will be surveyed:

• Kaltura server -- Pulls together all the media services under a unified REST API.
• nginx-vod-module - An Kaltura developed Nginx module for On-the-fly repackaging of MP4 files to DASH, HDS, HLS, MSS
• Mediainfo - used to analyze source videos to determine how best to handle them
• FFMPEG and Mencoder - used in transcoding to optimize source videos so that they'll be best viewed by various devices; i.e: Desktops, tablets and cellphones running different OSes
• ImageMagic - used for image manipulation and thumbnail creation
• Red5 - used in order to record from webcams, and broadcast live streams.
• The Kaltura HTML5 player - used for playback in native and web environments.

The session will include a review of our video source detection and optimization processes as well as demos showing how each project is used within the platform.

We will conclude with an overview of our current community activities and focus.