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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 or manual control
- Works online and offline
- Remote monitoring and control through VNC media
- Works on Ubuntu 12.04
Audio and video formats capturing - depending on HW
- Webcams and HD webcams
- S-Video or Composite PAL or NTSC
- VGA and DVI up to 2k
- DV cameras
- HD cameras
- HDMI
- Line or Microphone level through in-board sound card
- USB audio devices
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 enhancing 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
- Visual warning on audio mutted or device off.
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
- Series
- Harvest of series
- Series re-assignation
- Media graphical browser
- Sort by date, name, presenter, size, length, series and operation status
- Playback
- Metatadata edition
- Seek available
- Delete available
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
In general any v4l2 compatible card is suitable to be used. This is also valid for any pulse compatible audio device.