Matterhorn Lecture Capture and Administration

Matterhorn Lecture Capture Administration IllustrationKey Functionality

Capture Infrastructure

• "Build Your Own Matterhorn Capture Appliance" based off a reference specification for a low cost, low power capture device that supports audio, video and VGA source for high quality encoding.  Several prototypes will be available for testing purposes.( see Capture Hardware Specification)
  • Support for automated capture based on schedule
  • Multiple inputs for simultaneous/synchronous capture, e.g. a video of the lecturer plus the VGA signal from the lecturer's computer
  • Configurable capture encoding specifications (see Codec Support)
• Ingest service for institutions with existing capture infrastructure that want to send media and metadata to be processed and distributed by Matterhorn.

Administration

Confidence Monitoring

• Capture status monitoring to track the success or failure of each scheduled capture, as well as the availability of each capture media input.  This will only work with Matterhorn's capture appliance reference out of the box.
• Workflow status monitoring to track the success or failure of each recording from processing through distribution.

Media Capture Scheduling

• Manual scheduling of individual or recurring recordings
• iCalendar import from external scheduling source  (e.g. derived from registrar data)

Recording Management

• Metadata entry and editing for related recordings
• Distribution initiation to supported channels (i.e. iTunes, YouTube, RSS)
• Manual media upload (e.g. user-generated or production video) for processing and distribution