Settings

In the settings of the repository plugin the repository instances can be configured. The possible options per repository instance are:

• Name: Name of the repository instance.
• Opencast instance: The Opencast instance, from which the repository retrieves videos.
• Opencast default author: The default author, that is displayed for a video, if the creator is not given. Empty by default.
• Opencast channelid:: The channel id of the publication in Opencast. With a default Opencast installation you can use engage-player.
• Preferred flavor to get thumbnail:: The flavor for the thumbnail. Leave empty for the Opencast default.
• Fallback flavor to get thumbnail: Fallback flavor for the thumbnail, if there is no thumbnail for the preferred flavor.
• Embedd URL to player instead of media file: Whether the URL to the Opencast player should be embedded. If this box is not checked, a direct link to a video file will be embedded.
• Flavor to get video: The flavor of the video. Leave empty, to use the Opencast default.

Publication channels

Opencast publishes its events in so-called publication channels. One default publication channel is, e.g., the engage-player channel. Each publication has a publication URL, which points to the page under which the video is published (e.g. an HTTP page with the Opencast player). Additionally, publications can contain a set of media data with URLs to the media files themselves (e.g. an MP4 file).

For the configuration of the publication channel, you can either use the default publication channel engage-player or use your own publication channel. To use your own publication channel, you will have to modify the publish workflow and add a publish-configure operation. For example:

<operation
  id="publish-configure"
  exception-handler-workflow="partial-error"
  description="Publish to external api publication channel">
  <configurations>
    <configuration key="channel-id">api</configuration>
    <configuration key="mimetype">application/json</configuration>
    <configuration key="source-tags">engage-download,engage-streaming</configuration>
    <configuration key="url-pattern">https://HOSTNAME/paella/ui/watch.html?id=${event_id}</configuration>
    <configuration key="with-published-elements">false</configuration>
    <configuration key="check-availability">true</configuration>
  </configurations>
</operation>