Galicaster and Matterhorn, the best match (new)

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h3. Opencast Matterhorn

*{_}Open Source Lecture Capture & Video Management for Education{_}*

[Opencast Matterhorn|http://opencast.org/matterhorn] is a free open-source platform for managing educational multimedia content. Matterhorn creates a complete environment to ease the production and distribution of multistream lectures. All the steps of the process are covered, from a recording scheduling to its publication in one or several distribution channels.

Matterhorn provides a modular system with a sophisticated set of administrative tools to manage capture recorders, configure processing workflows, establish distribution channels and even playing media content in its own multistream player.

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*How does Galicaster fit in Matterhorn?*

Every Galicaster application can work as a basic Matterhorn capture agent. It can register as a capture agent, thus being able to receive scheduled recordings and ingest the resulting mediapackages automatically. The main advantages of Galicaster, compared to a standard Matterhorn capture agents are:

* It has a *graphic interface*.
* It can be *manually controlled*.
* *Reingesting media* is very *easy*.
* Users can *replay and review* the recorded media, and
* It provides *media repository features* such metadata edition, recording search, and bulk deletion (very useful when dozens of lectures have been recorded).
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h3. Major scalability: University of Vigo's pilot


As responsibles for the multimedia content management at the University of Vigo, we have seen that the demand for recording educational contents (lectures at Master and Bachelor degrees, as well as a good number of conferences hosted at any of the University campuses) is growing among the faculty and the students.