Chris, >>> Also, I don't see on the link how I important a media package (from >>> a new capture agent, or from another university, etc. etc.) into the >>> episode/archive service. I would like to do this and this might >>> let me relax the requirement on the directory structure (since I >>> could just archive our stuff to tape the way we already are, then >>> import it again into the episode service to run more operations). >> >> Currently, I am not aware of any requirements in that direction. >> Importing of a mediapackage from other systems or capture agents is >> done in an easy way by configuring an inbox where you just drop the >> mediapackages and configure a workflow that sticks them into the >> archive or does some other processing (or both). However, importing >> through the archive does make sense from my point of view. > > Could I put it in the inbox with a workflow that just adds it to the > episode service? E.g. if I distributed this to youtube already, but > not to itunes, and I wanted to push it to itunes as well as do some > metadata editing or something, it would be handy to put it in the inbox > and have it just show up in the episode service where I could do > multiple transformations on the media package.
yes, that's possible. You can specify a workflow per inbox. > If this was something that could be done, I could see us changing the > default workflow for the inbox to say "put in episode service", and > then we do all of our "work" from that screen. sounds like a good plan to me. A hold state for workflow selection would be the other option. Tobias _______________________________________________ Matterhorn mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn To unsubscribe please email [email protected] _______________________________________________
