Original Post

Jon DeGroot, 3/17/2018 at 4:38 PM

We are Scheduling webcasts for external customers but need to know who has attended the live webcast or viewed the recording afterwards without them having to sign in. Could there be an option to prompt anonymous users to enter a name that could be used for Stats tracking?

Currently, hardware recorders like Matrox and Epiphan have the ability to display basic recording information on their HDMI output screens. However, we would like to take this a step further by displaying more advanced information, such as live chat from the current streaming sessions in the room on a preview/confidence monitor by the lectern.

Here is a example of our current setup: (all our rooms has one display on or near by the lectern)

Feature Request: API Integration for Displaying Live Panopto Video Chat (Discussion) on Hardware Recorders' Preview Monitor by the Lectern:

Our goal is to integrate Panopto's live video chat (Discussion) with hardware recorders such as Matrox and Epiphan, so that the chat on live sessions can be displayed on a preview monitor by the lectern, which is connected to the recorder's HDMI output. This will allow for more dynamic and interactive classroom sessions, enabling remote students to actively participate and engage with the lecture, stay in touch with the teacher, and enhance interactivity.

To accomplish this, we would like to request the following:

1. Update the Panopto partner APIs to include live video chat (Discussion) information linked to the Live session.
2. Implement this into the FW on the HW recorders.. Both Matrox and Epiphan has allready been briefed on this, and are willing to implement when the data is available in the API :)

We understand that there might be challenges in implementing this feature, such as the limited number of chat lines that can be displayed at once. However, we believe that overcoming these obstacles will make Panopto a more versatile and inclusive platform for remote students.

We believe that this feature, in combination with Panopto's ongoing efforts to reduce latency from recorder to player, will transform the platform from a static "One to All" experience into a more engaging and interactive tool for remote students. At the very least this will give the Teacher/student a simple solution to just send/recive simple messages, like "TURN ON YOUR MICROPHONE!! ;)

Mockup on how this could look on the screen on the Lectern.

Here is also a full mockup of all the different states that could be shown on the screen before, during and after recording:

We are reevaluating our current use of Panopto for some online courses and one major sticking point is that reference copies do not currently order/provision captions when they are moved into a folder that automatically orders captions.

This functionality is really critical for us to be successful with Reference Copies. Without, it is so unbelievably difficult to order them manually once you get beyond a layer or two of Reference Copies because you have to walk up the tree one by one.

You should also be able to go into a reference copy and order captions on the original session without needing to traverse up the structure to find the original session first.

Some of our users are opening multiple browser windows to monitor up to 6 recorders at once.

They don't need to see all of their recorders, just the ones that may be having an issue or if they need to view what is going on in the room.

Would it be possible to have a multiviewer in the remote recorder list that we can assign specific recorders to for monitoring? It would need to show the primary and secondary windows for each recorder.

Hi all, I believe this exists internally under: FR-4624 - posting here for any further thoughts.

Currently it is not possible to set a global default policy for [assignments] folders. Presently offered are Content Retention options for ‘Default Site Policy’ and ‘Default Personal Folder Policy’.

However, it feels that there should perhaps be a third option that allows a ‘Default [assignments] Folder Policy’ as this retention period is again likely to be a different period of time compared to the Default Site Policy containing non-assignment content.

Manually setting the policy on the folders is of course possible, but on a large scale not feasible and difficult to keep track of.

This should help any institution where they are managing their assessment-based content to align with stipulated retention periods.

We have had a few situations come up where it would be helpful if there was an option to enable an interactive transcript (similar to what is available in the full interactive viewer) below the embedded player.

Here is an example of something similar to what we are after here: https://cielo24.com/interactive-video-player/

Hi, it would be nice to have a feature that allows you to cut, automatically, dead time out of incoming videos. Assume you run set of studios and get them ready between 3 pm and 5 pm for the session recording to start at 6 pm. The session starts at 6 pm even though recording may have started at 3 pm and the technician simply didn't stop the recording. Additionally there are multiple spans during the recording in which no audio is being apparent. It would be great if all these dead recording spans could automatically be removed. If you have a few thousand recordings a year it becomes a significant cost to do this manually, video by video.

we want the ability to see the list of the videos a remote recorder has already recorded. This helps our team troubleshoot technology issues and identify patterns.

example: we received a report of remote recorder not getting primary content. now we need to know if the same issue happened to other videos recorded using the same recorder.

It would also be great for us to pull the history as recording reports so we know high & low usage rooms for future upgrade decisions.

Is it possible to write out a report (or export data) on scheduled recordings - would be great if one could filter those by date and remote recorder.

As of now I can't even mark and copy the schedule - only possibility for me is to take a screenshot and send it on to the responsible person.

Thanks for considering!

Request to make Panpoto's Embed video player fully responsive.

The player does not currently resize to fill the screen correctly on smaller or vertical screens: it has a set embedded size and does not adapt to the users screen real estate correctly.

A responsive web player should include:

• It shrinks and adapts various elements to smaller sizes
• The embed player adjusts layout between portrait / landscape orientations (both in video or in an overlay)
• It adopts a touch-friendly control surface on mobile
• It can be sized down to 100 pixels tall for audio only
• The caption display adapts text sizes based on available space
• It remains in “horizontal” mode in mobile or resized browsers and does not switch to mobile app vertical view (which shows other elements under the video)
• It should also allow for audio only playback to work on mobile