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Christopher Brooks Institution Lead, University of Saskatchewan

Christopher Brooks Institution Lead, University of Saskatchewan Matterhorn Product Owner, Capture Agents & Administration Tools. Where am I from?. Mid-sized Canadian University (~18,000 undergraduate students)

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Christopher Brooks Institution Lead, University of Saskatchewan

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  1. Christopher Brooks Institution Lead, University of Saskatchewan Matterhorn Product Owner, Capture Agents & Administration Tools

  2. Where am I from? • Mid-sized Canadian University (~18,000 undergraduate students) • Researcher in the Advanced Research in Intelligence Educational Systems (ARIES) Laboratory, Department of Computer Science • “Product Owner” for the Capture and Administration teams • Focused on issues like scheduling, monitoring, and hardware/software for capture • Like many of the institutions involved in Matterhorn, we rolled our own

  3. Opencast • A community of 200+ institutions; higher education, industry, and non-profit all interested in podcasting solutions • A group of 13 universities participating in a Mellon & Hewlett funded build project: Matterhorn • A selection of regional organizations (base camps) showing off and sharing their experiences with the Matterhorn “product”, from 0.5 (January) to 1.0 (July)

  4. Matterhorn: 10,000 foot view • Orgzonas

  5. Matterhorn: Component Overviews

  6. Service Oriented Architecture Approach • Matterhorn runs in an OSGi environment • Components can be deployed in one container, or multiple (distributed containers) • Each service maintains Java OSGi, REST and SOAP endpoints (where reasonable) • Underlying implementations are done in Java • Some platform specific code, *nix • Version 1.5 or 1.6 • Nightly example: http://nightly.opencastproject.org/

  7. Codecs & Playback • Capture codecs for 1.0 • H264 in MP4, or MPEG2 in MP2PS • AAC, MP3, or MP2 audio • Uses the gstreamer framework underneath • Bit rate can be cranked up or down depending on hardware • Processing • H264 encoding, potentially FLV • Uses the ffmpeg engine underneath • Playback is through a flash streaming server • Red5 open source server out of the box • Wowza, FMS, should all be options • Content is H264 in MP4 container

  8. Workflows for Customization • The back end defines workflows in an XML format • How should we best make this available in the UI? <workflow-definition> <title>Transcode and Distribute</title> <description> A simple workflow that transcodes the media into distribution formats, then sends the resulting distribution files, along with their associated metadata, to the distribution channels. </description> <operations> <operation name="compose" fail-on-error="true" exception-handler-workflow="Default Error Handler" description="Encode media"> <configurations> <configuration key="source-track-id">track-1</configuration> <configuration key="target-track-id">track-2</configuration> </configurations> </operation> <operation name="distribute" fail-on-error="true" exception-handler-workflow="Default Error Handler" description="Distribute media to distribution channels"> <configurations> <configuration key="source-track-id">track-2</configuration> </configurations> </operation> <operation name="publish" fail-on-error="true" exception-handler-workflow="Default Error Handler" description="Add metadata to the search index" /> </operations> </workflow-definition>

  9. Deploying in Virtualized Environments • For version 0.5 we are encouraging testing as a virtual machine • A script that creates Ubuntu 9.10 virtual machines will be made available • A VMWare Appliance that offers “3 click install” for any platform* will be available • Some interesting questions around licensing for H264 patents/etc. • Saskatchewan Base Camp • A Dual quad 5500 Xeon’s with 12 gigs ram, 1TB drive • Running 4-8 vms depending on load and requests

  10. The Capture Agent • Not only is it software, but it’s a hardware reference implementation • Requirements (in some order of priority!) • Stable • Cheap (£500 - £800) • Powerful “enough” • 1 VGA + 1 NTSC/PAL + 1 3.5mm audio • No SDI for high definition in 1.0 • No balanced audio inputs directly • Runs on a variety of hardware • Platform independent*

  11. Hardware Solution • Dual core Atom 330 running on Intel D945GCLF2D

  12. Hardware Solution • Casetronic C137 Mini-ITX Case

  13. Hardware Solution • Epiphan VGA2USB

  14. Hardware Solution • Video Capture Card • Hauppage PVR350 • PV-143 (BT878) • Ncast • Osprey

  15. Discussion • Year 2 Grant; Requirements & Partners • Mobile, live streaming, archival, editing, etc. • Comparison to commercial solutions • Echo360, ePresence, Accordent, Podcast Producer, etc. • Thoughts on Steeple • Metadata and archiving • Pedagogical practices and efficacy • /contrib/… • Portal(s)

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