I just installed a new plugin from Kaltura which is supposed to add ‘interactive’ video to WordPress blogs. It allows you to upload videos you’ve already recorded through desktop software but also permits you to record new video on the fly via a webcam and a Flash interface.

I recorded a video from my webcam but now it’s disappeared - not an auspicious start… However, I’ve been able to insert it by going back into the ‘Add interactive video’ dialog box and browsing for videos. Not sure why I wasn’t able to get it to do that first time around - either human error or a flaw in the interface. At any rate, I’ve embedded the video below so you can see for yourself. Not bad - I’ve been looking for something that will do both things this program will do for some time so I’m glad to have something finally that looks like it may do the trick. Now we’ll see how well it holds up once more and more users pile on…

free video player & video platform - interactive video, online video solution: video player, video editor - kaltura
wordpress video - wordpress plugin for integrated video on video blogs, and video tools

The audio is a little quiet - that’s probably more a function of the microphone on my MacBook than anything wrong with Kaltura’s plugin.

And you’ll have to excuse the boxes in the background - we had people in to replace the carpet and paint the walls in the basement here while I was out of town recently, and haven’t moved the boxes back to where they came from, so I’m currently sitting amidst a mini-city of box towers in my home office.

Update: and, upon attempting to view the video, it appears that something went wrong somewhere. it works fine until the 22 second mark and then something about the way I arched my eyebrows made the thing stop recording properly and yet take up another 39 minutes or so of video recording time with nothing. I promise the original was only 33 seconds long. I’ll have to try again one of these days.