We have this appliance with the firmware you mention. I tested it thoroughly over the Christmas holiday and our results were as follows:
3 captures in a series of 10 were successful. The other 7 actually showed up in the core and showed as capturing. They are in fact in capturing limbo. 5 ad hoc lengthy captures (90 minutes) were scheduled, 3 of them consecutively. Only the first one worked correctly. The other 4 went off into capturing limbo. We are hoping for yet another firmware update to give this appliance another go. On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Kristof Keppens <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Yesterday we tried to use the ECD in a production environment, confident > that the hard and software was mature enough to do some recordings in an > actual class environment. Our experience however was everything but > satisfactory and led us to do a last minute replacement of the ECD with the > default opencast capture agent. > > We found that since the last firmware ( the one for download on epiphan site > and the one provided by Greg on the list here ) only 1 stream is processed > on the server. The recordings we made only show the video stream in the > engage player, however the original file on the server shows a multistream > avi with 3 streams. This problem is inconvenient but not that problematic > since we could recover the original multistream ( hopefully we can recover > the independant streams from the avi ). The following recordings had more > major problems. We had to do 3 recordings in a row, one 30 minutes long ( > which we can recover from the server ) and 2 following that of 1h30 that > both failed. > > The second recording disappeared from the capturing list on the admin server > after some minutes, and went to processing, resulting in an empty directory > on the server. The recording had more than 1 hour to go at that point. The > third recording started successfully and changed status to sending for > processing ( or something similar ) after less than an hour, more than 30 > minutes needed to be captured at that point. This recording was > unrecoverable as well, since there is no way to access the files on the ECD > and see what is actually happening on that machine. > > This experience leads us to wonder if this machine is production worthy and > if anyone is using this in a reliable way. We understand that this is still > in active development but also believe that basic functionality and > reliability should be expected. The fact that there is no way to see the > files on the ECD and download them from the device in case something goes > wrong is also a big problem for us, questioning the fact if we can rely on > this in a production environment. > > Maybe someone on the list can shed some light on what to expect from the > device in the future and if someone has different experiences with this, > please let us know. At the moment we don't feel confident to use this device > in any classroom environments. > > Thanks > > Kristof Keppens > Ghent University > _______________________________________________ > Matterhorn-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn-users -- Jack Vant System Engineer - Unix Office of Information Technology Boise State University 208-426-4446 208-863-0031 _______________________________________________ Matterhorn-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn-users
