Hi Mark, Our upcoming "unconference", hosted by Harvard, might be an ideal venue to deep dive into how VoV and Matterhorn can share code, break ground with HTML5 media players, and perhaps even lay the framework for how future projects might re-share the resulting products! Any chance you, or those on your team, might be able to squeeze in some make it to Boston before Jasig-Sakai? There are at least 2 sessions that could result from the ongoing dialogue here on the lists. Or, if enough engage committers attend, you all would have plenty of time & space to sit together and detail requirements and user stories.
http://unconference.opencast.org/ Cheers, Brian On Apr 29, 2012, at 6:39 AM, Ruediger Rolf wrote: > Hi Mark, > > as one of the persons in charge for the engage player, I must say that I > would be very interested in the share option. Although I am not really > understand where you want to go with the player that you want for VoV. > > From the mails that we exchanged with Phuong it seems to me that you are > interested in a very minimal player that you can embed very easy in a page > and that you provide an URL to the video you want to display. > This is not quite the direction we are heading with the engage player > currently, where we are planning to add more and more features (multi-streams > with 3+ streams, annotations, learning analytics, video editor/clip show). > For sure these features should be optional. > > We have for sure have some common interests like HTML5 video compatibility. > > So I guess it would be helpful to get a better understanding what the > requirements of a VoV player are. Maybe get some user stories. > > > I would say any commiter who works on the engage player [1] will be happy to > discuss your plans, review the patches that your team submits. > > > Thanks > Rüdiger > > > [1] Denis Meyer, Markus Moormann, Markus Ketterl, Greg Logan, Benjamin Wulff, > Rüdiger Rolf, ... > > Am 26.04.2012 23:28, schrieb Notess, Mark H: >> >> Opencast Community, >> >> On March 30th, we had a call to discuss the video player requirements of the >> Variations on Video project and how the Matterhorn Engage might be used by >> our VoV project. We are already planning to use Matterhorn for our media >> processing pipeline, though we will be storing metadata and stream URLs in a >> Fedora repository. As we’ve looked into the Engage player code and thought >> about our requirements, we are considering the following possibilities. >> >> 1. Share. In this model, functionality of shared interest to >> Matterhorn, VoV, and other projects would be factored out and maintained by >> the larger community. Matterhorn, VoV, and other projects could then add >> capabilities to this shared core as needed for their applications. >> >> 2. Borrow. In this model, the VoV project identifies those pieces of >> the Engage player that can be used in our development, borrows the code, and >> tries to keep this code as unchanged as possible so that updates to the >> Engage player can be more easily included in VoV. >> >> 3. Fork. Similar to the Borrow option, we identify the useful code, >> but we don’t bother trying to keep our code in sync with the Engage code in >> the future. >> >> 4. Look elsewhere—use no Engage code. >> >> We’d prefer to share code, but it’s not clear that the Opencast community >> desires to develop and offer shared components in this way. Thus, our >> current working assumption is to borrow, and we are investigating to that >> end. We’d like to avoid, if possible, forking or looking elsewhere. >> >> We’d love to hear people’s thoughts about these options and our current path. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Mark >> -- >> Mark Notess >> Manager, Teaching & Learning Systems Development >> Library Technologies and Digital Libraries >> IU Bloomington Libraries / University Information Technology Services >> Indiana University >> Bloomington, Indiana 47405 >> 812.856.0494 (w) >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Matterhorn mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn >> >> >> To unsubscribe please email >> [email protected] >> _______________________________________________ > > > -- > > ________________________________________________ > Rüdiger Rolf, M.A. > Universität Osnabrück - Zentrum virtUOS > Heger-Tor-Wall 12, 49069 Osnabrück > Telefon: (0541) 969-6511 - Fax: (0541) 969-16511 > E-Mail: [email protected] > Internet: www.virtuos.uni-osnabrueck.de > _______________________________________________ > Matterhorn mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn > > > To unsubscribe please email > [email protected] > _______________________________________________
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