Kaltura adds features to Cloud TV SDK
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Michelle Clancy
| 22 February 2019

Kaltura has updated its Cloud TV Platform SDK to include HEVC support, real-time analytics, as well as multiple advertising solutions support, including Facebook Audience Network (FAN).

The Cloud TV Platform SDK powers 20 million views per day, and supports over 6,000 different types of Android devices.

“The essence of Cloud TV is ensuring that whenever a person wants to watch TV, they simply can, at the highest quality, regardless of the device they choose or their location,” said Shay David, Kaltura co-founder, president and GM, Media and Telecom. “As mobile video consumption continues to grow, we at Kaltura have been working on the state-of-the-art technology behind-the-scenes that makes this possible.”

He added, “At Kaltura, we relentlessly innovate to find new ways to ensure that subscribers, no matter where they might be, enjoy amazing TV service quality. This new generation of our Mobile SDK ensures that mobile viewing is a superior experience.”

Kaltura’s new playback optimisation solution for mobile viewing was developed by monitoring internet connectivity data at the network level in addition to device and player-level data, it said. This monitoring enables Kaltura’s mobile SDK to dramatically shorten load and handshake time, thus delivering a smoother and faster video start time.

The hope is that the feature will be particularly relevant in emerging markets which may have slower mobile network connections, as well as viewing of primetime events with high levels of simultaneous viewers.

In addition, Kaltura’s new Mobile SDK version now supports HEVC and provides real-time analytics such as indications of join time, play failures, time spent on the service and more.

On the advertising front, Kaltura’s Mobile SDK now supports Facebook Audience Network (FAN) Facebook ads and Google AdManager.