Galicaster-PRO

What is Galicaster-PRO ?

Galicaster-PRO (GC-PRO) is a powerful lecture and conference recording software. Running on the recommended Hardware it builds a fully featured multi-stream recording unit. GC-PRO is a compiled, optimized and enriched version of Galicaster Comumnity Edition Software.

Galicaster-PRO exclusive features

All the standard Galicaster Community-edition features plus:

• Web panel for Real-time feedback and control 

  • Real-time AV monitoring on a web-browser: Operators are able to remotely monitor audio and video in real-time and control the recordings, and react to and solve unexpected situations on the spot. (any browser works without plugins) 
  • Repository management: edit metadata, browse content, download as tracks and as a zip file, dual-stream playback...
  • Users and Roles: Users in the web panel have roles that limit what they can do (a videographer will only have access to confidence monitoring and system status, a producer will have access to the repository, etc..)
  • System information: Galicaster logs, system performance and stats...

• Advanced Live streaming:

Galicaster PRO has the following ways to stream your content. All of them can be either pushed to an external streaming server or Galicaster can act as a streaming server itself for a small number of clients.

• • Live stream two synchronous video feeds (presenter + presentation)
    • With the same quality they are being saved to file (really high quality, high bandwidth). Can be used for campus-wide distribution.
    • A lower quality version of the previous video feeds that are being saved to file (Constant Bit Rate) and that can be used to push a stream to the web (in this case, lower quality doesn't mean bad quality)
  • A Side-By-Side stream, as a result of a 50-50 split screen (per default. The layout can be changed), with the two video inputs composed as a single stream (additionally this stream can also be saved to a file)
  • An advanced PiP stream,where using a custom computer vision algorithm, Galicaster checks for available free space in the presentation video and creates a composed Program in Program stream with the presenter scaled down to fit in the free space and that can be used for instance as a single streaming solution for mobile devices.

• Self-Recording wizard

• Compiled Binary format

Standard Galicaster features

• Live audio and video feedback over a touch interface.
• "Recording" red light sign
• Visual alarm on muted or low level audio.
• No scaler needed for VGA input.
• Advanced media manager, allowing playback, metadata edition and sorting and export operations.
• Opencast Matterhorn compatible, performs schedule and automatic ingestion.
• Basic manual controls of the recording: starting, stopping and pausing.
• Remote monitoring via VNC.
• HD and SD recording supported from HD-SDI, HDMI, component and composite video sources.
• Support for RTP network cameras and Datapath capture cards.
• VGA and DVI presentation recordng supported.
• Accepts multiple audio sources.
• Opencast-Matterhorn 1.4 compatibility.
• REST interface plugin.

Galicaster-PRO use cases

GC-PRO is commonly used for ...

Why purchase Galicaster units and Galicaster-PRO SW from Teltek?

Teltek fosters Galicaster development and contributes actively to the Opencast Matterhorn platform. We are advisors or responsibles for several deployments of Galicaster + Opencast Matterhorn around the world that record and process hundreds of recordings every week. Our units are assembled with heavy duty computer components and subject to a rigorous QA process. Their outstanding performance in our systems in production is their best quality guarantee.

Teltek does not only provide consultation and support for Galicaster units; our areas of expertise include design, set up and install recording systems in classrooms and conference halls (possibly "recycling" existing legacy systems), set up Opencast Matterhorn clusters as a free, open source solution for automatic video processing, creation of institutional video portals, media asset management, including publication to external channels such as Youtube or iTunes-U, Moodle, Pumukit, Paella Player and more.

* Regarding the capture of slides through DVI, the unit is capable of recording VGA formats (pure and non-pure video formats) from VGA, DVI and HDMI sources (even SD sources such as composite, component video and S-Video).

Contact Teltek for more details about resolution and formats supported, as well as hardware compatibility.
Custom configurations available on demand (various combinations can be installed on the same unit).