Opencast Information

Opencast 4.0 focuses on end user ease-of-use to make the day-to-day lives of Adopters easier. This release has an updated asset management core enabling centralized property storage, as well as many user interface tweaks and performance improvements. The new features for this release are: Asset Manager - The Archive service has been enhanced to support properties that can be attached to episodes. This allows services to store their data centrally and thus reducing the overall system complexity and the same time avoiding data being duplicated across multiple services (and many of the problems related with that). The Asset Manager provides a query language for easy manipulation of properties. To have a more appropriate name, the Archive service has then been renamed to Asset Manager service. Scheduler - The Scheduler service has been rewritten to take advantage of the Asset Manager service. The new Scheduler service provides full support for extended metadata for scheduled events and adds a transactional API for integrating external scheduling sources. A new tab in the event detail modal helps to more clearly separate bibliographic metadata from technical metadata Theodul Player Improvements - The Theodul player now supports MPEG-DASH and HLS. To improve the user experience when navigating in a video, preview images are shown when hovering over the timeline Flexible Asset Upload - This new facility allows Adopters to fully configure the upload dialog of Opencast as well as to configure arbitrary assets that can be uploaded and managed trough the user interface. Monitoring Service - The UI has been enhanced with a monitoring service that provides a visual indication of both the ActiveMQ status and the services status. In case of problems with Opencast services, a single click navigates the user to the Systems-Services page with an appropriate filter already set IBM Watson Transcription Service - The integration of the IBN Watson Speech-to-Text service allows Adopters to easily integrate speech-to-text into ...