Building Polimedia Mini-Sets with Galicaster

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h5. What is Polimedia ?

"Polimedia" is an audiovisual format and a producction procedure designed originaly by Politechnic University of Valencia, UPV (Spain).

In "Polimedia learning pills" video from professor and his presentation (PowerPoint or any VGA Computer screen) are blended together in an atractive way. Polimedia format works great on mobile devices too.

The production of "Polimedia pills" is easy and inexpensive using a "Polimedia Mini-Set" for recording and an OpenSource based post processing procedure. (also developed by UPV)


More info on [Polimedia|http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polimedia] (Sorry in Spanish)




h5. Galicaster: Recording for AccessGrid rooms

Galicaster can be succesfuly used as a multistream recording solution for AccessGrid nodes, especially when used for teaching and learning.

*Key features:*
* Recording may be triggered automatically or manually.
* AG operators are able to check sound level and quality in real time.
* AG operators are able to check video and VGA streams quality in real time.
* Finished recordings can be browsed, played, deleted or downloaded from Galicaster as a single "zip" file (MH-Media package format)
* Recordings can be ingested directly to an OC-Matterhorn core for publishing.
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h5. Galicaster Recording on an AccessGrid v3.2 node

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