On 5/7/2012 11:02 PM, Jack Barokas wrote: > Dear Rudiger and list > > Hi Rudiger I am very glad for your very positive experience from Matterhorn > 1.3 but unfortunately this is not the case here in Tel Aviv, at least not > regarding our efforts to switch from 1.2 to 1.3. > > We are trying for some time to install 1.3 on Ubuntu 10.04 with no success, I > wrote to the list about the problem but there was no respond from the > community. We also try to make the installation on Red Hat Linux following > precisely the instructions on the website but again with no success.
Is that the mail that I just replied to? I know that 1.3 works on 10.04 since that's what all of my testing VMs are running, so chances are it's a local config issue. G > The product installation documentation looks clear enough but then again we > are failing we the installation time after time. > > I wonder if there are more people having problems trying to install 1.3 or is > it that we have some unique problem in TAU. > > Best > Jack > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ruediger Rolf > Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 7:51 PM > To: Opencast Matterhorn; Matterhorn Users > Subject: [Opencast Matterhorn] 3 weeks with Matterhorn 1.3 in Osnabrück > > Hi list, > > I guess after 3 weeks with Matterhorn 1.3 in production here in Osnabrück it > is time to give a short feedback about our experiences. > > And I must say my feedback is extreme positive. We record 19 lectures a week > 90 minutes each with 7 CAs. We have recorded a few less than 60 lectures yet > and not lost any recording yet and the problems that we encountered are from > my point of view minor and in many cases not really matterhorn related. The > confidence monitoring in the CA is currently very helpful to really make sure > that everything works as expected during the recording. We had no reason to > restart the Matterhorn servers or a capture agent yet (with one exception, > see problem 2.) > > The problems we encountered: > 1. VGA is scrumbled: This is a well know issue when the resolution of the VGA > is changed while the PC is already connected to a recording VGA2USB device. > One solution is to reconnect the VGA then. But we started to include the > StarTech VGA-scalers that are recommended for the Capture Agents anyway. > 2. VGA video gets stuck for a few seconds/minutes but it recovers after a > while. I created a ticket for this http://opencast.jira.com/browse/MH-8799. > But in general I suppose that I simply need a faster CPU. But to make sure it > is not based on some artifacts I restarted the PC. > 3. Audio not loud enough. After a hardware problem (damaged power > supply) the volume on the amplifiers in the room was set too low. This was > not in any way Matterhorn related. > 4. On one CA the lecturer video was b/w. This was caused by a broken > s-video-cable. > 5. In one of over 60 recordings we needed to start the recording manually, > for an unknown reason. The scheduled recording aborted after a few seconds. > We noticed this with the CM and started the recording manually. > 6. If we edit the metadata in the trim hold state, the date gets lost. > This is a known issue too. > > I wanted to use MP4/H.264 for the streaming only, as you might have seen in > my other mail some weeks ago. In the meantime we decided to use h.264 only > for the higher qualities. For low and medium quality we switched back to FLV > as this works much better for us and is better supported by the Matterhorn > 2go app. > > This is by far the best semester start that we ever had. I hope that others > have made similar good experience. > > Rüdiger >
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