Stuart,
It would be very helpful to the project if you were able to share your
experiences and put out a plug for Matterhorn on the Opencast website. I
invite you to write up your PcP to Matterhorn deployment as an article
and then you and I can work together to publish your case study on the
opencast.org website.
Thank you!
Michelle
On 11/26/12 3:20 AM, Stuart Phillipson wrote:
Tobias / Greg, you've made a really good points, particularly about
the case studies. Pretty much everyone in lecture capture links to
success stories / case studies from their home page. I guess that's
what you want to see as a potential adopter, the technology worked for
someone else with the assumption that it will probably work for you.
We're currently working on replacing our Podcast Producer 2 (PcP2)
system with Matterhorn. It's not exactly the most exciting deployment
as we're not really focusing on the cool parts of Matterhorn, but I
promise to write it up and put it in our adopters page. There's still
quite a few people using PcP2 and it might be relevant for them to see
a successful migration to another lecture capture platform.
Cheers
Stuart Phillipson |* Media Technologies Coordinator*
Room 1.025 Devonshire House
University of Manchester
Manchester
M13 9PL
United Kingdom
e-mail: [email protected]
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Phone: 016130 *60478*
On 23 Nov 2012, at 10:49, Tobias Wunden <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
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]
<mailto:[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
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