Thanks Michelle, once we've actually got the kit installed I'll do a proper write-up with this in mind.
Stuart Phillipson | Media Technologies Coordinator Room 1.025 Devonshire House University of Manchester Manchester M13 9PL United Kingdom e-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Phone: 016130 60478 On 26 Nov 2012, at 17:11, Michelle Ziegmann <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: 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<http://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]<mailto:[email protected]> 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]<mailto:[email protected]> Phone: 016130 60478 _______________________________________________ Matterhorn-users mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn-users _______________________________________________ Matterhorn-users mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn-users _______________________________________________ Matterhorn-users mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn-users -- Michelle Ziegmann PMP Technical Project Manager Educational Technology Services University of California Berkeley _______________________________________________ Matterhorn-users mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn-users
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