Hi People: We currently rely heavily on the Capture Agent… Although we want to switch over to a more robust, commercially-supported capture agent, our brief testing with both NCast and Epiphan led us to delay that decision.
It does seem that the cheap hardware from which to build a capture agent is slowly disappearing. :-( Hard to update the OS to a new version when the drivers aren't available. And not much point in updating the capture agent software until drivers are available. We are being squeezed. Maybe time to add a few Galicasters to our mix? I don't really want to change anything, we finally have a reliable system, 25 reference capture agents, all running nicely, pretty much a set-and-forget system. We have passed 1000 captures for the school year, on our way to an expected 1430. Warren (still trying to find robust, reliable and cheap capture agents) ****************** On 2013-02-05, at 9:58 AM, Christopher Brooks wrote: None of these are ecl licensed. Why can't there just be many agents? Why don't we just quit determining minimum hardware, and instead just indicate hardware that people have successfully used with the codebase? I don't see a good reason to quit using the reference code and suggest a single vended solution instead. Some are still using the reference code without issue, and while it isn't evolving quickly that isn't preventing the core from evolving. .. Chris Ruediger Rolf <rr...@uni-osnabrueck.de<mailto:rr...@uni-osnabrueck.de>> wrote: We in Osnabrück have an LGPL licensed alternative too [1], but I did not mention it in this context as we use a different technology stack (Windows) and our project is not complete in features yet (no scheduling i.e.) and not as mature as the Galicaster. And maybe even other open source options may appear in the future? Rüdiger [1] http://zentrum.virtuos.uos.de/therec/# Am 05.02.2013 16:48, schrieb Stuart Phillipson: On 5 Feb 2013, at 15:15, Ruediger Rolf <rr...@uni-osnabrueck.de<mailto:rr...@uni-osnabrueck.de>> wrote: Especially Teltek's Galicaster is an valid alternative to the reference Capture Agent as it has an open source license too and works on very similar hardware. I'd agree with this statement. When we were looking at capture agents we either wanted an off the self product for simplicity or something we could customise to our environment. We ended up going for customisation and Galicaster vs the reference agent didn't even get off the paper stage. Galicaster was and is evolving so much more rapidly, it's a bit more user friendly to noobs and seems to have a much more active community. That said I'm wondering how Teltek would feel about being the only future FOSS offering on the capture agent seen? Stuart Phillipson | Media Technologies Coordinator Room 1.023 Devonshire House University of Manchester Manchester M13 9PL United Kingdom e-mail: stuart.phillip...@manchester.ac.uk<mailto:stuart.phillip...@manchester.ac.uk> Phone: 016130 60478 _______________________________________________ Matterhorn mailing list Matterhorn@opencastproject.org<mailto:Matterhorn@opencastproject.org> http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn To unsubscribe please email matterhorn-unsubscr...@opencastproject.org<mailto:matterhorn-unsubscr...@opencastproject.org> _______________________________________________ -- ________________________________________________ Rüdiger Rolf, M.A. Universität Osnabrück - Zentrum virtUOS Heger-Tor-Wall 12, 49069 Osnabrück Telefon: (0541) 969-6511 - Fax: (0541) 969-16511 E-Mail: rr...@uni-osnabrueck.de<mailto:rr...@uni-osnabrueck.de> Internet: www.virtuos.uni-osnabrueck.de<http://www.virtuos.uni-osnabrueck.de/> ________________________________ Matterhorn mailing list Matterhorn@opencastproject.org<mailto:Matterhorn@opencastproject.org> http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn To unsubscribe please email matterhorn-unsubscr...@opencastproject.org ________________________________ _______________________________________________ Matterhorn mailing list Matterhorn@opencastproject.org<mailto:Matterhorn@opencastproject.org> http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn To unsubscribe please email matterhorn-unsubscr...@opencastproject.org _______________________________________________ _____________________________________ Warren Long Senior Instructional Support Specialist Information and Communications Technology Email: warren.l...@usask.ca<mailto:warren.l...@usask.ca> Ph: (306) 966-5426 <http://www.usask.ca/> [cid:image002.png@01CD22D0.0B536890]
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