Hi Stuart, thanks for sending this, I couldn't agree more! The point you are making, and the one Greg has been referring to as well, is that there are almost no success stories being sent back to the community, even though we know that they are out there.
So from my point of view it is still valid to point out that Matterhorn is not yet the shiny product that others are selling with regards to a polished ui, as long as we keep selling the ideas that make Matterhorn a great product: extensible architecture, use of open and documente standards, openness in general, choice of capture solution, active community of developers and users, etc. Tobias On 16.11.2012, at 13:04, Stuart Phillipson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Ok so a bit of a rant, but I've been to a few conferences / talks / > discussion and I think we (myself included) might be underselling Matterhorn > or overstating the competition a bit. When people like Mediasite are talking > up their products they're not focusing on the areas which (I think) are of > real concern for us, they're actually talking about stuff that Matterhorn is > potentially capable of doing much better and I think this might be scaring > people away. I don't really have a specific goal with this conversation, but > I'd like to know what people in the community think? > > Just look at this for example. Here's a talk I did in Norway and was recorded > on a dedicated Mediasite box (sorry :' ( you'll have to install Silverlight > if you want to see it): > http://webtv.uit.no/Mediasite/Play/5e94b90d23ff47a8af0ffbbd437656dc1d?catalog=ce785a7a-45b9-4492-a867-124f50d0139c > > The UI might be glossy-ish but the whole experience seems filled with major > problems. Just for information, they had professional AV staff there on the > day monitoring everything so if it ever stood a change of working properly it > would have been then. The VGA signal acquisition is terrible, there's > horrible compression on the video signal, the same video signal loses audio > sync *within a single stream*, animation capture and sync is appalling, the > constant scrolling of the slides is hugely distracting... I could go on. Want > to embed the video in another page? LOL, better write your own embed code > then: > http://www.worldofwebcast.com/post/mediasite-tech-tip-how-to-embed-any-mediasite-webcast > > Want to view it on a mobile device? Hahahahah: > http://i.imgur.com/KeC6k.png > > If you look around the web there's numerous different installations which all > have the same problems, it's not just limited to one site's implementation of > the system. And yet people are willing to by these with a per unit RRP cost > of $16,000...... sixteen thousand dollars! Per room! > > I guess what I'm trying to get it is that I think the default responses to > enquires about Matterhorn seem overly conservative when considering the > above. When I was initially asking around if Matterhorn was any good I > commonly heard something along the lines of "it has its problems", then > followed by a longer explanation of some of the issues and the good points. I > think this is because people are trying to manage expectations and avoid > disappointment and I get that, I'm just not sure if it helps us to grow the > community. > > </rant> > > > Stuart Phillipson | Media Technologies Coordinator > > Room 1.025 Devonshire House > University of Manchester > Manchester > M13 9PL > United Kingdom > > e-mail: [email protected] > Phone: 016130 60478 > > _______________________________________________ > Matterhorn-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn-users _______________________________________________ Matterhorn-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn-users
