Author Archives: Wesley Wright
CumulusClips now UvmTube
Using the CumulusClips 2.2 base code I was able to build out a credible video server. https://uvmtube.uvm.edu/ Features Upload videos, tag and categorize Accepts mp3, mp4, flv, wmv, rm (RealMedia), mov automatically transcodes to mp4 optionally hide or require … Continue reading
BBB 0.90 finally released and installed
Notes to myself Make sure /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/bigbluebutton/WEB-INF/classes/bigbluebutton.properties contains the line bigbluebutton.web.serverNoSslURL=http://bigbluebutton.uvm.edu Make sure sftp:/waw:@bigbluebutton/var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/lti/WEB-INF/classes/lti.properties reduces to bigbluebuttonURL=https://bigbluebutton.uvm.edu/bigbluebutton bigbluebuttonSalt=xyxyxyxyyxyxyxyxyxyxyyyxyxyyyxyxyxy ltiEndPoint=bigbluebutton.uvm.edu ltiConsumers=xxxxxxxxxxxx ltiMode=extended beans.bigbluebuttonService.url=${bigbluebuttonURL} beans.bigbluebuttonService.salt=${bigbluebuttonSalt} beans.ltiService.endPoint=${ltiEndPoint} beans.ltiService.consumers=${ltiConsumers} beans.ltiService.mode=${ltiMode} nginx index.html files read
Notes on configuring Samsung SNO-6084R
I was drafted to purchase and configure yet another IP Network Camera to document the STEM building project. I chose the Samsung SNO-6084R for $750 from B&H Photo. Samsung web site hosts a PDF version of the User Manual. At … Continue reading
Archiving STEM construction
Taught Physics webcam to capture still images every N seconds Monday -> Friday 6am -> 6pm. N initially set to 180 for testing, set to 5400 for production. Configured server jerboa to accept FTP upload from web cam. Wrote a … Continue reading
BigBlueButton Updates, tweaks
Firefox latest releases have become more aggressive about disallowing mixed http and https content on a single page. This caused the BigBlueButton Blackboard LTI to soft-fail until user manually overrode mixed content restriction. I was able to force BBB to … Continue reading
2016 Kroepsch-Maurice Excellence in Teaching Awards nomination form busted
Form was broken. I fixed.
Perpetual license wowza install
met with ETS/SAA staff to install and configure fully licensed wowza streaming engine server to replace RealServer and Darwin Streaming Server, support stemma and cumulus clips projects http://www.uvm.edu/~waw/stem.html http://www.uvm.edu/~waw/vod.html
Mansfield snow depth
Perl robots failin to grab Mt Mansfield data from NWS because thy switched to MiXEd CaSe labels, previously al UPPER CASE. Old scripts case-sensitive. Updated scripts and back filled missing date from email archives . Amazed by how many people … Continue reading
Flood video
Paul Bierman wept: Am trying to grab http://www.uvm.edu/landscape/1927_flood/1927_Flood_Full_Stream.mov for teaching… won’t stream or download. ideas? Video using old codec and Quicktime streaming server technology. transcoded video and embedded it on page using contemporary jwplayer standards: http://www.uvm.edu/landscape/1927_flood/1927_flood_movie.htm
Gund publications
On Feb 18, 2015, at 10:25 AM, Taylor Ricketts <taylor.ricketts@uvm.edu> wrote: I’m trying to upload an update of our publications database (as an xml file, per usual). The import interface is hanging up, now motionless for 20 minutes after I … Continue reading