7 - Opencast-Matterhorn-PuMuKit
University of Vigo, Spain
System Description
The solution presented integrates the following three tools:
Matterhorn, Galicaster and PuMuKIT, and was adopted by the
University of Vigo, Spain, for its campus of excellence Lecture
Capture pilot project. The system provides a comprehensive set of
technologies that allow any institution to produce, enrich,
distribute and manage large amounts of media content in an
automated way while allowing precise control of all the different
stages in the process. The central part of the system is Matterhorn,
a free open-source platform that supports the management of
educational audio and video multi-stream content. It is, by itself, an end-to-end system that provides
technologies for recording lectures, managing existing media, serving designated distribution
channels, and providing user interfaces to engage students with educational videos. Galicaster is a
capture agent compatible with Matterhorn. It was developed by Teltek Video Research for the
University of Vigo, to cover some specific professors’ and technical staff needs, such as live in-room
feedback and control of the recordings (using a tactile screen), the ability to browse and edit the
metadata of the recordings present in the device, the possibility to schedule recordings to start
automatically but also to start them on-the-spot, and much more. PuMuKIT (acronym of Kit for
Multimedia Publishing) is a comprehensive media cataloguing system, developed at the University of
Vigo but now adopted by other universities worldwide. It provides an elegant and customisable front
end, as well as enhanced capability for cataloguing videos. PuMuKIT allowed the University of Vigo to
reunite their legacy media content with the new multi-stream content generated by Matterhorn, in a
single good-looking, institutional media portal.
Screenshot
http://tv.campusdomar.es/serial/index/id/115
Overview
The solution presented was based on the Matterhorn video processing and distribution software by
the Opencast Project, and PuMuKit for video publishing. Galicaster, a recorder designed to be used
directly by teachers in a classroom, was used on the capturing side.
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