Hi Chris, I'm all for "one player to rule them all"--the trick is to architect/factor it well so that the right things are in the core and the others can be added on as needed.
Fullscreen capability should be added to our requirements. Accessibility is in the list already. Multiple simultaneous videos could be potentially interesting. I don't think we have any user stories about that currently. Thanks for your reply--join us for the conference call if you can. Mark -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Brooks [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 12:54 PM To: Opencast Matterhorn Cc: Notess, Mark H Subject: Re: [Opencast Matterhorn] Video player discussion Hey Mark, (I'm biased in that I think we in opencast should have all of these requirements as well as all of fluids and we should just offer a stellar open source video playback control that all projects can use. A one codebase supertool.) > And while I'm giving out links, the preliminary list of requirements > for our video player is here: > > https://wiki.dlib.indiana.edu/display/VarVideo/Video+players > > Which should begin to answer Rüdiger's question. >From your list: "Closed captions (us43)" Supporting a standard closed captioning format is important for interoperability and tie in with other services. I think the Osnabruck team has comments on this. "Adjustable playback speed (US 56 - is this possible with streaming?)" It's available in silverlight streaming, fwiw (WMV). "Adaptive streaming - the player can change video quality (when switching to fullscreen or connection slows down)" I didn't see fullscreen capabilities in your requirements. Also, one killer feature of the MH player right now is that it allows you to have multiple videos shown at once *in sync*. Huge feature that I haven't seen in any other video player, especially useful in a world of widescreen monitors where you might want to show multiple tracks or angles. Don't know how useful it would be for variations. I also don't see anything here about accessibility controls, which was an issue for us in MH. Chris -- 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] _______________________________________________
