Features

Updated to Galicaster 1.2.0

Galicaster is a software aimed to record, browse and play multistream media.
Tactile
It is based on Python, Gstreamer and GTK.

Running

• Automatic
• Remote monitoring and control through VNC media

Opencast Matterhorn compatible

• 1.2 and 1.3 OC-MH Compatible
• Posses as a capture agent
  • Scheduling
  • Track selection
    • Track selection block available
  • Admit series
  • Constant communication
    • CA-server communication frequency configurable
  • Automatic ingestion
    • Enhanced ingestion service: nocturne ingestion, manual ingestion
• Series harvest and edition
  • Series can be set after a recording was made - on the Media Manager
• Works offline
• Worker & Capture Agent on the same machine
• Monitoring through VNC technology

Recording media

• Live preview of every stream
  • Vu-meter included
• Streams are recorded separated, thus enhacing adaptability
• Handle more than 2 video-streams, depending on CPU capacity
• Records multiple audio streams
• Input profile selection
• Pause recording available for v4l2 compatible devices
• Metadata edition, keyboard necessary
• Multiple audio sources supported: line, microphone, usb microphones ...

Future improvements

• Basic encoding manager

Manage Media

• Operations over mediapackages
  • Zip media
  • Create side-by-side copies of the media
• Ingest media to Opencast Materhorn
  • Compatible with 1.2 and 1.3
  • Harvest of series
  • Series assignation
• Media graphical browser
  • Sort by date, name, presenter, size, length, series and operation status
  • Playback
  • Metatadata edition
  • Seek available
  • Delete available

Future improvement
*Compatibility with OC.MH 1.4

Know supported cards and capture devices

• UVC webcams, i.e., Logitech C Series Webcam
• Epiphan VGA2USB DVI2USB, VGA2PCI and DVI2PCI
• Blackmagic Intensity Pro and Decklink SDI
• Hauppauge PVR Series
• NCast digitalizers - those compatible with kernel 3 NCast drivers
• Bluecherry non-hardware cards

Other features

In general any v4l2 compatible card is suitable to be used. This is also valid for any pulse compatible audio device.