Hej Luis,
yes, pyCA shows up as a capture agent.
As pyCA and Opencast only communicate with each other through Opencast's
HTTP interface, it would be okay to have both on the same machine for
testing purposes. I would not see it as "running on top of Opencast" but
"recording and delivering videos to Opencast" (which is called
"ingesting" in the Opencast world).
This being said, of course I assume that, in the end, you would want to
have Opencast on a server, serving the videos to whomever it may
concern, and pyCA on a machine in a lecture hall or the like...?
Pascal
Am 31.03.2017 um 17:04 schrieb Luis Rosario:
> Jan, thanks for the reply. I do have a couple of questions. First, is
> it ok to install on the same sever that opencast is running? If so, are
> there any special server config I need to be aware about? Second, and do
> I understand this correctly, pyCA runs on top of Opencast and triggers
> recordings according to scheduled events in Opencast? So does pyCA show
> up as a capture agent with in Opencast when scheduling events?
>
> On Mar 31, 2017 12:07 AM, "Jan Koppe" <
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> Hello Luis,
>
> yes, pyCA is perfectly suitable for this. We are capturing our camera
> vido signals per RTMP as well. I'm not very familiar with RHEL, but
> probably you can install the required packages via pip, so you don't
> have to go through your package manager.
>
> Also, you will probably need ffmpeg to actually do the capturing, as
> pyCA only executes a user-defined command upon request from opencast.
> But this can be as simple as `ffmpeg -i <your rtmp stream url> -t
> {{time}} -c:v libx264 {{dir}}/{{name}}.mp4`, which will reencode the
> stream with h.264 regardless of the input. If you do not want to
> reencode (because wowza already encodes to h.264) you can use `-c:v
> copy`, which would require almost no cpu power.
>
> If you have any troubles, feel free to ask. :)
>
> Regards,
> Jan
>
> On 31.03.2017 05 <tel:31.03.2017%2005>:57, Luis Rosario wrote:
> > Hi Greg, yes, thank you. I was slowly discovering this. I've been
> > trying to install PyCa which seems easy enough but getting stumped on
> > the python-itsdangerous dependency running on Redhat. Been trying to
> > find a way to install it and having trouble. But it looks like PyCa
> > would be able to do what I'm looking for... Thanks for clarifying.
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 8:51 PM, Greg Logan
> <
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> > <mailto:
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> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Luis,
> >
> > Opencast doesn't directly support capturing from anything, but
> > there are a number of closely related projects that can. Take a
> > look at PyCA, or Galicaster. There are a number of hardware
> > vendors whose hardware would also likely work, but Galicaster and
> > PyCA are software based.
> >
> > G
> >
> >
> > On Mar 30, 2017 18:13, "Luis Rosario" <
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> wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone, I'm new to the community and currently testing
> > Opencast. How do I go about setting up Opencast to capture an
> > incoming RTMP stream? I'm under the impression that this is
> > possible. We are planning on using Opencast to archive live
> > content being relayed from Wowza. Any info pointing me in the
> > right direction would be amazing. Thank you!
> >
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