Category Archives: Wes
cool stuff
Hacked a solution to embedding live feeds from Wowza into blog posts Also wrote some code to display real-time data And wrote a lot of documentation and a CTL blog post https://wiki.uvm.edu/index.php?title=Streaming_Server http://blog.uvm.edu/ctl/2017/03/30/uvms-streaming-media-server-and-online-video-platform-ovp/
Updates to UVM Streaming gone live
Updates Revamped metadata entry screen with contextual help, revised wording, required field indicators, copyright agreement highlights , formatting water mark suppression is now on by default for new uploads view statistics give more accurate counts view stats now available … Continue reading
SharePoint 2016
Worked with SAA to roll out the very first new production SharePoint site. CTL as always a leader in technology.
BBB 1.1ß
installed, needs some configuration before taking it ‘live’ . This release offers three main enhancements: 1. Breakout Rooms: https://youtu.be/q5N-lcocJss (3:41 minutes) 2. Live Closed Captioning: https://youtu.be/vDpurrMgal0 (1:23 minutes) 3. Faster Desktop Sharing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTFuEvmEqB0 (3:10 minutes)
streaming media updates
Wendy and ines made some helpful suggestions for changes to metadata upload pages. They can be found on streaming-dev.uvm.edu . SAA bumped up the # of virtual processors allocated to the server. Need to tune the queuing software, which has … Continue reading
Video History
Enhanced UVMTube to track views: Video ID, Logged in user ID, time/date. triggered by clicking on Play control. Only tracks first button press. Feature request from Dana Library still need a interface to request and display results
Golden Globe Nominee? Or just another cat(amount) video.
Edited to J’s timecodes Designing for Learning video, found at
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Streaming.uvm.edu now allows video owners to suppress the UVM watermark (request from Dana Library).
Video Queue redux
Staged a race to transcode 4 videos concurrently on prod server and sequentially through queue on the devo server Concurrent won. So I figured I needed to use two queues to leverage multiple virtual cores. modified code to do just … Continue reading
UVMTube: Allow users to upload their own Poster/thumbnail jpeg
I am a coding machine. Today I am happy to announce that UVMTube now allows users to upload their own Poster/thumbnail jpeg. I wrote the code in the Sugarbush (Lincoln Peak) base lodge last Saturday while my wife and son … Continue reading