Example Systems

Below are some example coursecasting systems in place in Opencast community organizations.  If you want to add your system to this list, please Join the Opencast Community, submit a Showcase, and then add your system below with a reference your showcase for a more complete description.

• Berkeley’s Next Generation Webcast/Podcast System is the system of UC Berkeley. It has been developed around podcast Producer. There are 5 components to Berkeley's NextGen Webcast/Podcast System:
  • Administration Application
  • Scheduler
  • Tasker
  • Media Capture Engine
  • Media Processing Engine

• Replay of ETH Zurich is an Open Source software (see the page of the project) to integrate, index, archive, and distribute audiovisual lecture recordings on a large scale. The System has six different modules:
  • Manager: central module
  • Integrator: ingest of content
  • Indexer: to help searching
  • Archive
  • Composer: encoding
  • Store: distribution to other platforms

• University of Lyon uses Podcast Server to record lectures.

• University of Vigo uses their own PUMUKIT solution, an Content Management System strongly oriented to multimedia.

• The Recollect system of the University of Saskatchewan include: automatic publishing of videos, templating of videos for different media/output formats, automatic chaptering, in-lecture search capabilities, student note-taking facility, integration with CAS authentication for SSO and WebCT/Blackboard integration.

• The virtPresenter lecture recording framework of the University of Osnabrueck has three main parts:
  • Recording: Different lecture rooms)
  • Processing: Shared points for the processing)
  • Distribution: Webinterface, blog integration, iTunes, audio/video content management system, LMS course integratio

• ARCA of Universidad Carlos III is a Content Management System that support live events, video on demand and podcast.

• Media Space of Northwest University is still under development. The used technologies are Flex3, JRuby, Java and will support:
  • Content management framework based on JCR. Part of a wider content management strategy.
  • Unique workflow system that allows customization of workflows for individual media items.
  • Video encoding based on Podcast Producer.
  • Video delivery via Flash Media Server as well as external services (YouTube, iTunesU)
  • Client-side media browser accessed through Blackboard (or other LMSs)
• Case Western Reserve University has developed MediaVision Courseware, a video-centric course management system