Mediasite, the university’s centrally supported video management solution, will undergo upgrades to its software platform and hosting environment from 5 a.m. until approximately 5 p.m. on Thursday, January 6. As a result, publishing, playback, and management functions will be largely unavailable throughout the day as the upgrades proceed.
Once the maintenance is complete, Mediasite users will notice several improvements, including:
- Faster rendering of videos edited with Mediasite’s built-in video editor
- Improved tools for precise placement of captions in the caption editor
- Optimized Mediasite Mosaic installation – registration is handled during launch and is no longer a separate installation step
- Improvements to the Zoom import integration, adding the ability to import Zoom Webinars
- Support for light, dark, and high-contrast themes in the Mediasite web portals
The biggest upgrades will occur “under the hood” of Mediasite:
- An all-new rendering engine that encodes video more efficiently, reducing storage and bandwidth demands without adversely impacting video quality
- Refined encoding settings that leverage the new rendering engine for content uploaded through MyMediasite or Mediasite Mosaic
Mediasite Mosaic has replaced Mediasite Desktop Recorder.
Mediasite Mosaic enables you to capture any combination of your computer’s display, webcam, and microphone. Mosaic replaces the Mediasite Desktop Recorder software, which has been unsupported since last summer. Mediasite Desktop Recorder will become incompatible with K-State’s Mediasite Video Platform after the upgrade on January 6. If you still use Mediasite Desktop Recorder, you are encouraged to switch to Mediasite Mosaic.
About Mediasite
Mediasite is an online video capture, management, and playback system, much like YouTube but with more features, better security, with easy integration into Canvas. In addition, Mediasite enables faculty to offer digital media-enriched content to their students. For more information, visit k-state.edu/mediasite.
