The presentation will elaborate on the benefits of lecture recordings from teacher’s and student’s point of view. It will also show the distribution of videos to web pages with the embedded Matterhorn player as well as to iTunes U.

Opencast Matterhorn is a lecture recording system, that automates the process of recording, editing and distributing of videos captured in the classroom. It has been developed by 13 American and European universities. The major contributions came from Berkeley (USA), Cambridge (England), Zürich (Switzerland) and Osnabrück (Germany). With regard to hardware, there has to be a remote controlled camera in the lecture hall, a conventionel PC with a mpeg-2 encoder card, a wireless microphone, and a VGA2USB-converter, attached to a VGA splitter between teacher’s laptop and beamer. Installed on one or more servers somewhere in the network is the Matterhorn software, that controls the post processing, which may be individually tailered to the needs of the institution.