Tag Archives: Boffins

…one more thing

With respect to Tina’s 13 Lunas project http://www.uvm.edu/~lrg/13lunas/ and http://waw.w3.uvm.edu/lunas.php Which uses Flash to record video, I present Video capture via WebRTC http://waw.w3.uvm.edu/recordRtc A work in progress. No Safaris allowed.

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Free Books from my Bookshelf

Math, physics, computer science. And a signed copy of  The Art of Computer Programming Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms (Donald E.Knuth).   Free for the taking, available only in Lafayette 407

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ffmpeg barfs on .AVI file

Entered on 08/31/2017 at 10:54 by juli@med.uvm.edu: Hi Wesley, I’ve uploaded 2 movies to the streaming.uvm.edu server, which are not going through. 1 is an avi file, the other a mp4 file. Are there issues with the server? Issues with ffmpeg. Exploratory … Continue reading

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YoUVM admin tool: move ownership

Figured out how to move ownership of a video from NetID1 to NetID2. Added it to Admin Panel => browse Videos => popup menu ‘Move’ Still some clean-up work to do before sending to production  

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Been a long time gone

Last post way back in May. Surely I’ve done something since then. Early May to June… announced my retirement prepared a list of streaming server users prepared a list of adjunct faculty Ticket from Sara Solnick. There is — or was, or may … Continue reading

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BBB keeps rolling along

Upgraded from 1.1ßeta to 1.1-RC from BBB: It’s been almost four months of testing since we announced the availability of 1.1-beta on Jan 12, 2017.  See: https://bigbluebutton.org/2017/01/12/1-1-beta/. A big thanks to everyone who reported issues with the beta and helped … Continue reading

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Guide on the side

Helped Daisy, Graham, and Lyman get updated GOS installed on library servers. They were very happy, but not so happy as to let us use their SpringShare software.

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Data begets data

Created more graphs; moved jpgraph library into cumulusclips library (was on ctl.w3.uvm.edu); refactored code to use cc-core DB  objects for mySQl queries; added tabular (HTML table or Excel CSV download)  custom user reports. Incorporated all of this into Admin Panel. … Continue reading

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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/  

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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)

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