This is very good news.
It may not be perfect, but it's yet another important step forward.
Congratulations and thank you, Rüdiger and team.

Judy

On Apr 18, 2012, at 5:24 AM, Ruediger Rolf wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> the University of Onabrück is proud to announce that the Matterhorn 2GO App 
> is now finally accepted for iOS too. After some month of additional 
> development we have accomplished that the app is now fulfilling Apples 
> guidelines. Now you can finally watch lecture recordings on recent iPhones, 
> iPads or iPod touch.
> 
> For general information about the Android and iOS app you should visit our 
> website [1]. Or you can go directly to the iTunes app store [2].
> 
> The Android and iOS versions are nearly identical, but the iOS version has 
> the restriction that videos can only watched on wifi [3].
> 
> Currently only recordings from Osnabrück are available there, but we are open 
> to add additional Matterhorn servers to the list. If you want us to add your 
> Matterhorn Server:
> 1. Be aware that your recordings become public available. We currently don't 
> support a login, so if you have used the authentification in Matterhorn 1.2+ 
> only your public recordings will be available.
> 2. Your Matterhorn server must be reachable from everywhere. If it's 
> restricted to your local network only we can not accept it.
> 3. You must use RTMP-streaming. For an unkown reason the iOS version 
> currently only works with streaming (the Android version is fine with 
> progressive download too).
> 4. We recommend that you use the "encode media in different qualities" 
> workflow, as we would then use the low bandwith videos, which load much more 
> reliable than the default size.
> 
> If all conditions are okay for you please send me a mail with the URL of your 
> engage server, the name under which we should list it in the app and your 
> contact details. We will check then if everything works as expected and add 
> it to the list of available servers.
> 
> Regards
> Rüdiger
> 
> 
> [1] http://vm193.rz.uni-osnabrueck.de/matterhorn2go/index_en.html
> [2] http://itunes.apple.com/de/app/opencast-matterhorn-2go/id506291861?mt=8
> [3] According to Apples guidelines.
> 
> -- 
> 
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