Gratz Fred, sounds exciting. Looking forward to trying it out, Chris
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:16:09 -0400 Fred Dixon <[email protected]> wrote: > The BigBlueButton project announces integration of BigBlueButton with > Matterhorn (1.1 and 1.2), providing an software-based lecture capture > solution for Matterhorn. > > Background: > BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system for distance > education. It can broadcast the presenter's desktop, webcam, slides, > chat, and audio. The goal of the project is to provide remote > students a high-quality learning experience. > > On September 12th we recently released BigBlueButton 0.8-beta with > integrated record and playback. As part of the development of > BigBlueButton 0.8, with the support of Boise State, Adam Hochman, and > others from the Matterhorn team, we added integration with Matterhorn > 1.1 and 1.2, enabling the BigBlueButton server to package a recorded > lecture into a format that is readable by Matterhorn for ingest and > processing. > > > What is required to run BigBlueButton client? > The BigButtonButton client runs in Flash and works on Mac, Unix, > and PC web browsers. To capture the desktop requires the presenter's > browser to also run a Java applet. > > How does BigBlueButton capture the lecture? > The BigBlueButton server receives the presenter's desktop, > webcam, and audio and, in turn, broadcasts them to other students. > As the server is broadcasting media, it's also recording it. The > recorded media comprises two video files (FLV), one for the webcam > and one for the desktop, and an audio file (WAV) for the voice > conference. > > How does the BigBlueButton server package the captured lecture for > Matterhorn? > After the lecture finishes (everyone leaves the session), scripts > within the BigBlueButton server process the captured audio file, > video file, and desktop file into two FLV files: (1) webcam + audio, > (2) deskshare. The scripts also extract the meta data from the > presentation to create the Dublin Core. > > How does the BigBlueButton server transmit the captured lecture to > Matterhorn? > Using public/private keys, the BigBlueButton server automatically > sends the packaged lecture to Matterhorn in the > /opt/matterhorn/felix/inbox/ just inbox directory directory. From > there, the regular Matterhorn ingest and processing process takes > over. > > We invite anyone who is using Matterhorn 1.1 or 1.2 to try using > BigBlueButton for lecture capture and give us feedback. We're in our > beta testing for BigBlueButton 0.8 and we would like to get feedback > from some sites using BigBlueButton with Matterhorn before the final > release of BigBlueButton 0.8. > > > To setup a BigBlueButton 0.8-beta server, see > http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/ReleaseNotes > > To integrate the server with Matterhorn 1.1/1.2, see > http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/08MatterhornIntegration > > For more information on BigBlueButton, see > http://bigbluebutton.org/ > > If you need help with the setup and integration of BigBlueButton or > with integration with Matterhron, please feel free to contact me > directly or post a follow-up message to this list. > > Regards,... Fred > Blindside Networks > > P.S. I want again thank Brian Bolt (Boise State) and Adam Hochman > for their support in making this integration possible. > _______________________________________________ > Matterhorn mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn > > > To unsubscribe please email > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ -- Christopher Brooks, BSc, MSc ARIES Laboratory, University of Saskatchewan Web: http://www.cs.usask.ca/~cab938 Phone: 1.306.966.1442 Mail: Advanced Research in Intelligent Educational Systems Laboratory Department of Computer Science University of Saskatchewan 176 Thorvaldson Building 110 Science Place Saskatoon, SK S7N 5C9 _______________________________________________ Matterhorn mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn To unsubscribe please email [email protected] _______________________________________________
