Introduction to Opencast Matterhorn (http://opencast.org) for the Apereo Mexico Conference, May 2014 http://edured.mx/apereomexico14/

1. wefwefOpencast
Matterhorn
The academic lecture capture
and video management
system
14 May 2014
Stephen Marquard
University of Cape Town
stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za

2. About me
I work at the University of Cape Town in South
Africa.
Sakai adopter since 2005
Matterhorn adopter since 2011
Sakai developer, Sakai Fellow, Sakai Board (2009-
2011), Opencast Matterhorn Board (2014)
Follow me!
twitter.com/stephenmarquard
slideshare.net/smarquard

3. Opencast Community
Universities, companies and people:
• concerned with academic video
• attracted to the Opencast values of openly exchanging
ideas, experience, knowledge and code
• committed to building and maintaining a robust, flexible,
high-quality open source lecture capture and
academic video management solution.
Now also becoming part of

4. Why is video important?
Source: Echo360 and The Feedback Loop
“Capturing Student Perspectives About Lecture Recordings”, 2010.
639 respondents from 8 US universities
How important are the following
course resources to you?
Lecture recordings are highly valued
by students.
Lecture recordings are a safety-net
for students: a second chance to go
over difficult material, or catch up on
missed lectures.
Video provides an important way of
engaging learners in online and
blended e-learning courses.
But video can also be complex to
produce, manage and preserve.

6. Opencast Matterhorn...
… is a free, flexible, open-source platform to support the
management of educational audio and video content.
Institutions use Matterhorn to produce lecture
recordings, manage existing video, serve designated
distribution channels, and provide user interfaces to
engage students with educational videos.
Matterhorn is not itself a video portal (“mytube”).

7. Where is Opencast Matterhorn used?
Around the
world, with
strong adopter
communities in
USA, UK,
Germany,
Spain
43 Adopters with
public information
(May 2014)
http://opencast.org/
matterhorn-adopters

9. Opencast Matterhorn
Capture
Classroom solutions
Studio recording
Upload DIY recordings
Capture from BigBlueButton
Processing
Distribution
Playback

10. Automated
classroom
capture
Galicaster
Capture Agent:
Build your own,
or buy.
Open software
license (CC-
NC) for non-
commercial
use.
www.teltek.es
Typically use
capture cards
or USB devices
from
Datapath
Blackmagic
Epiphan

11. Classroom
capture
appliances
Matterhorn-
compatible
hardware
Vendors include:
EntropyWave
entropywave.com
NCast
www.ncast.com
323Link
www.323link.com
Galicaster
www.teltek.es

12. Studio recording
Example of using Galicaster
and Matterhorn in a MOOC
studio:
http://wiki.teltek.es/display/
Galicaster/Galicaster+based+
Polimedia+MOOC-Studio

13. Upload do-it-yourself (DIY) recordings:
• from your computer (e.g. with TheREC)
• from Sakai or another LMS using LTI
• directly to the Matterhorn inbox (server folder)
• from BigBlueButton
http://zentrum.virtuos.uos.de/therec/
https://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/
wiki/Matterhorn

14. Processing
Matterhorn video processing is defined by flexible and powerful workflows
which determine how the media is processed, and encoding profiles which
define the formats (container and codec). You can write your own workflow to
suit your needs.
Matterhorn uses ffmpeg and other open source tools to analyse and transcode
audio and video.
For example a lecture capture workflow at the University of Cape Town:
1. ingest recording (audio, presenter/camera track, presentation/slide track)
2. create working versions (mix in audio)
3. hold for review and trimming
4. normalize audio (adjust to reasonable loudness)
5. create download MP4 versions at 360p (H264)
6. create FLV streaming versions
7. archive high-quality versions (720p/1080p)

15. Distribute
You can choose how to distribute (publish) recordings from Matterhorn (defined
in workflows and encoding profiles)
Download (e.g. mp4)
Matterhorn
another web server
support download whole file or progressive download
Flash Streaming (rtmp)
red5
wowza
nginx-rtmp
Third-party services
e.g. Youtube
Or
Your campus video portal, MOOCs, …

16. Opencast Matterhorn
Capture
Process
Distribute
Playback
Engage player
Paella Player
Matterhorn2Go Mobile App (Android / Apple)
Inside Sakai or another LMS with LTI
Youtube

17. Matterhorn Engage Player (Flash) engage.opencast.org/engage/ui/
Features: dual-stream, download / share / embed, flash rtmp streaming or progressive download, slide thumbnails

18. The Paella Player (HTML5)
Features: clean modern look, supports wider range of devices.

19. Matterhorn2Go
for Apple iOS and Android (find it in the app store!)

20. Inside Sakai (with self-service scheduling) or another LTI-compliant LMS

21. Publishing to YouTube
Matterhorn support recently added for the Google v3 API by UC Berkeley
https://opencast.jira.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=50462753

22. Get involved today!
Opencast website
http://opencast.org/ (read the adopter stories!)
Wiki Oficial de la Comunidad OPENCAST en Español
https://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/mhes/Opencast-ES
Mailing lists
community@opencast.org (low frequency)
matterhorn-users@opencast.org (implementers, users)
matterhorn@opencast.org (developers)
IRC
#opencast (irc.freenode.net)
Source code
https://bitbucket.org/opencast-community
Issue Tracking and Wiki
http://opencast.jira.com
Commercial support for
Matterhorn:
Entwine
entwinemedia.com
Teltek
www.teltek.es
and others.

23. Join the Opencast
community: we’ll
help you climb the
video mountain!