How to test kaltura video upload console?
Kaltura is an open source online video platform. It offers video management facilities. If we have an account in kaltura, it helps us to manage all our media in one central repository. ie, all our videos can be accessed centrally through Kaltura video management console.
Kaltura video management console, which has a rich video management system provides lots of services such as,
- Upload videos, images
- Manage content categories and create playlists
- Customize players and playlists.
- Manage user accounts. etc
- Getting report about videos, website that played video and video play count
In one of our Drupal website functionality is to upload videos (films) after payment and publish it for selling. The user who visit the site will have the facility to view videos trailer and if he interested, he can buy the full video. To manage videos for this
website our organization used kaltura video management service. If a tester wants to test kaltura video upload functionality in drupal sites, then he should follow the below steps,
- Login as an admin user or a privileged user.
- Select a content type, For that click on content --> Add content --> Select the content type(Eg: Film)
- Click on kaltura field button (For eg; The field name will be 'add trailer' or 'add film' button, it depends on website.)
- A kaltura video upload window is displayed in a pop up.
- Browse the required video and then click on upload button.
- After uploading the video, click on Next button in the Add media window.
- After clicking on Next button you can see a thumbnail image of the video in the left side of the Add media window. From that you can understand the video has been successfully uploaded.
If the developers give the credentials(includes url of kaltura site, username, password) of Kaltura account, then also we can check whether the video is uploaded in the client server.For that,
- Open the kaltura site
- Login to the site by using the credentials of kaltura account
- After login click on tab 'Content' and it will redirects to video listing page and check whether our required video is listing or not in this page.
From these ways a user can test kaltura video upload functionality in drupal sites.
