Support for OIDC, external HLS sources and API improvements

[alexamirante]

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is considering hosting their own video playback site for recordings of meeting sessions, as an alternative with similar front-end functionality as YouTube. They are already using Cloudflare Stream as the media storage/delivery. They don't want to host media content directly, but keep on using Cloudflare Stream as the media repository and customize MediaCMS to provide the front-end.
They also want to leverage the OIDC authentication provided by their Datatracker, with permissions bound to roles defined there.

We opened two PRs implementing OIDC support (#1534) and support of external HLS urls (#1530). The latter also includes a number of backward-compatible API enhancements, changes to the video-js player, and assets customization.

I'm opening this issue to provide a bit of context on the two combined efforts above.

[mgogoulos]

Hi, @alexamirante , thanks for the communication and for submitting both PRs. We are very interested to merge them after we work together to ensure they are integrated well on the main software and are tested, as they will bring good value to the project and help facilitate other cases too. The way I see it, this can help in the following (amongst others):

• bring out of the box support for more identity providers
• improve the SAML integration
• improve the DO_NOT_TRANSCODE scenario / skip a good part of local file processing

Do you have a timeline when you'd like this work to be merged and available?

Thanks and regards
Markos

[alexamirante]

Hi @mgogoulos! Happy to work with you on this on any timeline that works you. We merged both PRs to our own fork and tested the specific scenario the IETF is interested into. The plan is to start deploying our own fork and then switch back to an upstream MediaCMS release once the features have been merged.