On 3/26/2012 8:41 PM, Chitesh Tewani wrote: > Hi Greg, > > I got it on what capture agents actually are and the way to install them. > > I have some fair knowledge on jQuery and have used them in my past > projects. But, as mentioned by you in the previous mail[1], is not > working, so I'm unable to see the current state of this project. > > However, was able to access [2], and could understand the UI of the > back-end. > > Can you tell me what should I do next regarding this project? > > Waiting for your reply.
Hrm, not quite sure what was going on with [1], but it should be up now... I know we don't have a lot of time before the application deadline, so why don't you come back with some ideas of how you think the UI should work. It needs to be able to display the agent's state, start and stop the capture, list the media that the CA has on disk, and adjust the parameters listed in the configuration you'll see at [1]. Ideally the UI should be able to display confidence monitoring streams/images as well, however I'm not sure of the state of the confidence monitoring code at the moment; this may not actually work yet :) Eventually we want to have a user friendly way of adjusting most of the parameters on the CA's inputs (see http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/MH/Capture+Agent+Configuration+%28Trunk%29, section 2 for an example and don't worry about what the values actually mean just yet), so keep that in mind when working on your initial ideas. Another eventual feature is a embedded version of the page inside the admin tools (i.e. [2]), although this is very definitely a component that you don't need to do unless you have lots of extra time. Once you have some ideas then I think you need to put in a formal application through GSoC. I can help proofread and whatnot for that so feel free to send things to me if you want help. Don't put too much time into thinking about your designs yet: You aren't guaranteed to be accepted! A strong idea of what you want to do will, however, help when you write the 500 word 'Why are you perfect for this project' essay :) G > Thanks. > > [1]: http://testca.usask.ca:8080/ > <http://testca.usask.ca:8080/capture/index.html>capture/index.html > <http://testca.usask.ca:8080/capture/index.html> > [2]: http://testca.usask.ca:8080/ > <http://testca.usask.ca:8080/capture/index.html>capture/index.html > <http://testca.usask.ca:8080/capture/index.html> > > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Greg Logan <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On 3/24/2012 2:47 AM, Chitesh Tewani wrote: > > I'm mentoring this one, so I can answer this (but not the others :)) > > > Idea2: *Capture Agent User Interface* > > 1. Could you please elaborate on "Capture Agents"? All what I could > > understand from different articles on opencast.org > <http://opencast.org> > > <http://opencast.org/>, is that it is an agent which captures videos > > based on schedule and supports audio and other video formats. Are > > capturing hardware (cameras etc) connected to this agents? On what > > platform are they built on? > > The Capture Agent ("CA") runs on consumer hardware with various capture > cards added on as needed for the installation (see > http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/MH/Reference+Hardware+%28Trunk%29). > Cameras are then attached to the inputs of those cards. The agent runs > Ubuntu, with Matterhorn running inside Apache Felix. The agent is > accessible through REST based APIs which consume XML, JSON, or plain > text depending on the endpoint. > > > 2. I have proficient knowledge on XML, partly JSON, JavaScript, CSS, > > HTML which are required for this idea. I have used XML and JSON for my > > projects to get stock quotes from Google finance API and Yahoo! > finance > > API. Also have some knowledge in Java as a programming knowledge, as I > > had used JSP(Java Server Page) for my IBM The Great Minds Challenge > > project. > > We use jQuery extensively throughout the rest of the UIs, so knowledge > of that library is a big plus as well. If you end up doing this project > you *probably* won't need much Java so I would not be concerned > about that. > > An example of the current state of this project can be found at > http://testca.usask.ca:8080/capture/index.html (username: admin, > password: opencast). As you can see it's really simple, so if this is > the project you want to do you should start thinking about how to make > that UI jive with the one at http://testadmin.usask.ca:8080 (same > username and password as above). We have some hard requirements of what > the UI needs to be able to do, but once those are met you can add all > the bells and whistles you want! > > > Apologies if I have contacted a bit late, as I was browsing > through all > > the ideas & filtered the ones which I felt were most kindred to my > > skills, also which the ideas which interested me to work on of the > summer > > > > As I am new to the community, kindly tell me the groundwork to do > > before playing around with it. > > > > Is it fine to personally mail the mentors concerned with a particular > > project? Or I should mail in this mailing list (Sorry for my > naivete here) > > Alas, this is my first year being a mentor so I can't offer much in the > way of advice here. I would prefer to stay on the mailing list for now, > and I'm sure that the other mentors will get back to you early next > week. > > G > > > Waiting for a reply. > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Chitesh T. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Matterhorn mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn > > > > > > To unsubscribe please email > > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > _______________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > Matterhorn mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn > > > To unsubscribe please email > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > > > > > -- > Regards, > Chitesh T. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Matterhorn mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn > > > To unsubscribe please email > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Matterhorn mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn To unsubscribe please email [email protected] _______________________________________________
