Opencast’s roadmap is set by its contributing institutions, so this roadmap changes as priorities change.
Opencast 8 (December 2019)
- Add easy keyboard mappings to Paella
- Adding viewership statistics to the Admin UI, in the form of charts and counter
- Additional configuration items around video publication settings
- Admin UI embed code generator
- Asset Manager filesystem cleanup
- Automated subtitling
- Backend library improvements
- Better support for Kubernetes, with Helm charts/example YAML deployment files, docs, etc
- Captions editor
- Clustered file system storage evaluation (GlusterFS and CephFS)
- Extend video editor tool’s video/audio track selection to support more than two sources
- GPU encoding support
- HLS support for the annotation tool
- Implement MS Excel export of Annotation tool data
- Implement URL signing service to allow third-party systems to authorize their users
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scripts for Amazon Web Services.
- Integration Paella into the annotation tool
- Linking exported powerpoint slides to the correct time in the Opencast recording
- Metrics API to enable autoscaling in cloud environments
- New FFmpeg builds including 10bit/HDR and hardware encoding support
- Opencast adopter registration form
- Opencast Studip Plugin, including LTI support, better ACL suport and “share by link” option
- Open source streaming server (alternative to Wowza)
- Organization and branding improvements for Opencast’s documentation
- Performance improvements
- Remove Search service dependency from the Annotation tool
- Shibboleth login handler
- Streaming support for the annotation tool using the current video.js player
- Update Paella documentation
- User Interface configuration service
- Workflow description in the Admin UI
- Support for Google Speech API for transcriptions and captions
- Support for Nibity API for transcriptions and captions
Opencast 9 (June 2020)
- Additional Paella usability work
- Comments plugin for Paella and Opencast
- Replace the video portal
