Apereo Opencast

With a focus on capturing lectures in the classroom, Opencast offers a highly automated solution to work with different recording devices. Effortlessly manage academic videos, ensuring valuable classroom content is efficiently captured, processed, and accessible to your audience. Whether capturing lectures, creating videos, or processing, archiving, and distributing them, Opencast provides a flexible, reliable, and scalable framework to handle the complexities of video management in academic settings.

It covers all stages of the video lifecycle, from live streaming, recording (lecture capture), and video upload/ingests to processing/encoding, publishing, playing, and archiving video assets. It’s scalable from a one-server installation to mass production in the cloud and versatile to play with other academic (LMS, course catalogs etc.) or campus systems (BigBlueButton, Zoom). Additional modules exist, including, Opencast Studio for web-based video production, and a Video Annotation Tool.

Project Statistics (from late 2023):
First Release, Feb. 2013; 2022 Release, Dec. 2022, v13.0; Current version, Jul. 2023, v14.1
Contributors: 36
Commits, 44028 (Lifetime); 5066 (2023); Year-over-year, 26.3%
Issues, 1863 (Lifetime); 399 (2023); Year-over-year, 84.72%
Reviews, 8252 (Lifetime); 1631 (2023); Year-over-year, 0.55 %
Commit authors, 467 (Lifetime); 71 (2023); Year-over-year, 4.41%
Issue submitters, 175, (Lifetime); 56 (2023); Year-over-year, 30.23%
Review submitters, 159 (Lifetime); 46 (2023); Year-over-year, -4.17%
Estimated number of sites in use: ≈ 200