Chapters in Opencast #62
Description
In the upcoming Opencast 19 release, users can create chapters in the Editor UI.
From the Opencast roadmap issue:
Handling Chapters in Opencast-Paella Integration... Paella 8 does expect a JSON object containing the chapter information it needs to display. For testing purposes, this information is read from the data.json file.
However, for the Opencast integration, this information could perfectly well be read from VTT files or any other format you choose. We would read the VTT file, extract the chapter times and text, convert this data into the structure used by Paella's JSON object.
There shouldn't be any issues in mapping the VTT structure to Paella's expected JSON structure.
The chapter editor is already available on develop.opencast.org, but disabled by default. Furthermore the workflow on that instance does not publish the chapters file properly - I guess this PR bugfix is missing there?
Nonetheless it's possible to use the chapters feature by appending &chapters.show=true to an editur url, e.g. https://develop.opencast.org/editor-ui/index.html?id=ID-about-opencast&chapters.show=true
After adding and saving chapters in the Editor UI, the chapter vtt file is accessible via Assets in the AdminUI, e.g. https://develop.opencast.org/assets/assets/ID-about-opencast/14c42fc9-a124-46d1-97d4-8c88510956f4/4/chapters.vtt