What is Matterhorn?
Matterhorn is an open source software platform used by educational institutions for managing, encoding, and publishing video and audio content. It supports capture, management, encoding and distribution of educational video content including lecture capture, presentation capture and video on demand.
Some key features of Matterhorn include:
- Ingest and transcode video and audio files into multiple formats and quality levels
- Automated or manual scheduling of system tasks like file ingest, transcoding, distribution
- Attach metadata to videos including titles, descriptions, tags
- Deliver video content through built-in video player or export for other systems
- Video and audio capture from recording rooms set up on campus
- Integration with other campus systems via APIs
- Access control and user roles to manage access to videos
- Usage analytics on video views, downloads and system activities
- Modular, scalable and fault-tolerant architecture
Matterhorn is commonly used at universities to schedule, manage and deliver educational video content to students online through a video portal. It integrates with campus lecture capture systems and supports automated or manual workflows.
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