Opencast MatterhornOpen Source Lecture Capture & Video Management for Education Opencast 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. [More about OC-MH ] 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:
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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.
[Talk about how the interval between recording and publishing has shrinken at same time]
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