Overview

If you've recorded Kaltura Capture, Quick Capture, or specially-configured Zoom integration videos, you've seen multi-stream Kaltura videos. These videos allow users to control the arrangement of the streams within the media player. Users can view two streams side by side, picture-in-picture, or they can view a single stream at a time. 

However, if you try to download your dual-stream entry as discussed in our article on downloading your Kaltura videos, it's not immediately apparent how to download anything but the "parent" (or "primary") video source of a multi-stream entry. (Most of the time, this is the screen capture plus audio.) But if you're the owner of the media, you can find and download the child stream in either MediaSpace or Canvas. This tutorial walks you through how.

Critical Concepts

Prerequisites

• You must be the owner of the entry. You're not able to find children of multi-stream Kaltura entries if you're a co-editor or co-publisher. 

Things to Keep in Mind

• "Parent" vs. "children": for dual-stream entries Kaltura uses the terms "parent" and "children." The parent refers to the screen capture and the child refers to the video camera. 
• How to create multi-stream entries: If you're interested in creating a multi-stream entry but not sure how, you can do this by using Kaltura Capture, Quick Capture, or by leveraging the Kaltura-Zoom integration. (Check out this sample dual-stream video if it helps.) You can learn more in the articles linked below:
  • How to Record a Video with Kaltura Capture
  • How to Create a Dual-Stream Kaltura video Using Zoom
• You have to do this on a video-by-video basis - reach out if you need to do this in bulk. As you'll see from the instructions below, getting to the child entry and downloading it can be cumbersome. If you want to download a bunch of parent/child entries that you own, reach out to kaltura@ucsd.edu and we can help you with some back-end magic. 

Steps to Take

4. In the gray box next to the video, copy the value of the field labeled "Media Entry ID." This is the unique identifier of this multi-stream entry (specifically the parent). 
5. Click Back in your browser to return to the main page of "My Media."
6. Click on the search bar, paste in the media entry ID, and press ENTER.
7. The search results should show the "parent" entry as well as any "children."  For any child entry, you can download it as you would any other video in MediaSpace by returning to the edit page and clicking the download button within the player. (See our tutorial on downloading your Kaltura videos if necessary.)