Galicaster and Matterhorn, the best match

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h4. 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.



h5. *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 operated*.
* *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).

Due to its *seamless integration with Matterhorn*, Galicaster can be used in combination with standard Matterhorn Capture Agents in the same installation, allowing organizations to choose the combination that best meets their needs.

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