From Steeple

Video conference with Chris Brookes about Opencast Matterhorn

Contents 1 Roll out testing in VMs 2 Capture agent 2.1 capture cards 2.2 Discussion 2.2.1 Metadata 2.2.2 base camp

[edit] 1 Roll out testing in VMs

Ubuntu 9.10 VM will be available: Script to create VMs for VirtualBox, Xen, VMWare, ...

Base camp: Dual Quad Xeon with 12GB RAM to run 4-8 VMs.

[edit] 2 Capture agent

Not just software - hardware reference implementation available. Requirements was

• Stable
• Cheap (£500-£800)
• 1 x VGA + 1 x NTSC/PAL + 1 x 3.5mm
• Platform independent (i.e. runs on Ubuntu)

gstreamer framework

Ubuntu seems to have good status in the project - that's great!

[edit] 2.1 capture cards

• Hauppage PVR350
• PV-143 (BT878), cheap
• NCcast (pricy)
• Osprey

[edit] 2.2 Discussion

• further funding
• comparison to solutions
• Thoughts on Steeple
  • Metadata
  • /contrib/...
  • Portal(s)

[edit] 2.2.1 Metadata

Contact Markus, and the Matterhorn list, also do community feature request to support steeple specification.

[edit] 2.2.2 base camp

Capture agent downloads configuration from the server, and after capture pushes data back to server. The server doesn't need to see the capture agent, so capture agent can be behind of firewall/nat etc.