Select which channels Opencast can use

Applies to: Pearl-2, Pearl Mini, Pearl Nano, Pearl Nexus.

You choose which Pearl device channels are available to Opencast for recording and for streaming. Each channel configured on the Pearl device is treated as a separate video source, so using multiple channels is how you capture multiple views of a single event.

The channels you make available here are the set Opencast can draw on. When you schedule an event in Opencast, you choose which of those available channels that event uses. An ad hoc event started from the Pearl device uses whichever channels are marked as available here, because there is no opportunity to choose at event-creation time.

Set up your channels before performing this task.

Select the channels available to Opencast using the Admin panel

• Log in to the Admin panel as admin.

• From the Configuration menu, click CMS. The Content management system configuration menu opens.

• Under Channels, use the Channel configuration table. Check Active for each channel you want available to Opencast.

• Set the Flavor for each active channel. The normal default values are presenter and presentation.

• Set Live streaming for each active channel to enable or disable streaming from that channel.

• Click Apply at the bottom of the page.

Device differences

• Pearl Nano: Pearl Nano has a single channel, so the Channel configuration table lists one row. The Active, Flavor and Live streaming settings apply to that channel.