Synergy

channelAustin has been using a proprietary software tool called Content Agent to encode .mov files to the MPEG2 format required for playback on our Synergy Broadcast system. Content Agent in our work flow has been previously discussed. See http://groups.drupal.org/node/19135

We also decided some time ago to use Content Agent to encode H.264 files for VOD on the web with the OM Show module. And so we added an H.264 encode process to the workflow. We've now decided to stop doing that.

This morning Rich Vasquez visited channelAustin and we discussed the remaining steps needed to integrate the work he has been doing on the Open Media Project. As background, he has been writing open source code (Ruby) to write to and read from Synergy Broadcast System's database (Microsoft Access). He achieved the part of reading from Synergy's db several months ago, and recently completed writing to it. Tackling Microsoft Access has not been easy, but Rich has basically solved the problem.

Where we are at now with the project is the following: