Added to openEyA v4.0.0 for Ubuntu 10.04 is a new recording modality with no need for extra Hardware or get lost with cables.

openEyA v4.0.0 now allows you:

• to capture automatically your computer screen (i.e., grab slides done with PPT, PDF or any other digital presentation) from the same computer in which openEyA is installed and synchronize them with video; … you can give and project a seminar/lecture while recording it!

• to easily record “self-seminars”, i.e., your own lectures, viewpoints, etc. which you can then share with your students and audience via web or through a compressed zip file.

This new openeEyA’s recording modality is easier to use than ever!

As always, we thank you for using openEyA and look forward to your feedback.

Cordially yours,
The SDU Team

We invite you to download the latest version 3.1.0 of openEyA compiled for Ubuntu 10.o4 which:

• has been optimized to speed-up the digital camera response to  the automated photo shots.
• allows to create automatically keywords from slides into a file OCR.txt  (OCR – Optical Character Recognition) whenever possible.
  

Note Added: Due to recent upgrades of Ubuntu 10.04, please use this revised version 3.1.0 (rather that the recent previous v3.0.9).

As always, we thank you for using openEyA and look forward to your feedback.

Cordially yours,
The SDU Team

We invite you to download the latest version 3.0.9 of openEyA compiled for Ubuntu 10.o4 which:

• has been optimized to speed-up the digital camera response to  the automated photo shots.

As always, we thank you for using openEyA and look forward to your feedback.

Cordially yours,
The SDU Team

This new version 3.0.7 of openEyA incorporates:

• patch from Univ of Parma for automatic processing,
• patch from Univ of Parma to set recording from command line.
• bug fixed in gphoto2 links.

We thank you for using openEyA and look forward to your feedback.

Cordially yours,
The SDU Team

We are glad to announce a new upgrade  of openEyA version 3.0.5 (Myrmex) with support for more digital cameras and easier use.

We thank you for using openEyA and look forward to your feedback.

Cordially yours,
The SDU Team

We are glad to announce the new upgrade  of openEyA version 3.0.4 (Myrmex) with support for

• the afterward editing of video,  audio and slides (the later from a remotely controlled digital  camera or VGA screen capture),

and

• a “Beep” (ringtone) indicator at the end of each “Manual Recording” session.

We thank you for using openEyA and look forward to your feedback.

Cordially yours,
The SDU Team

We are glad to announce the latest release of openEyA version 3.0 (Myrmex) with added support for the afterward editing of video,  audio and slides (the later from a remotely controlled digital  camera or VGA screen capture).

With openEyA, automated digital photo shots, or screen captures, can be done on a single low-cost netbook as well as audio/video recording, processing, delivery and afterward editing –all with just one click!

The automated and editable syncronized recordings can be easily embeeded in any e-learning content management systems.

openEyA version 3.0 (Myrmex) is available for free as an easy-to-install Ubuntu package.  This version

• editor for video, audio and photos,
• new implementation of processing,
• improved midnight check algorithm,
• some minor bugs removed,
• added directories for backup and checkboxes.

 

We thank you for using openEyA and look forward to your feedback.

Cordially yours,
The SDU Team

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Info: openEyA integrates different technologies under Linux Ubuntu 9.10 and 32 bits machines like low-cost Netbooks to synchronize:

• (i) video in Flash format,
  
• (ii) high resolution slides (to zoom specific areas of a blackboard or a projector screen) and
• (iii)  classroom audio (without the need to wear a microphone).

The Science Dissemination Unit (SDU) at the Abdus Salam International Centre  for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy, is offering an academic webcasting grant to have an “off-the-shelf” solution for online learning.

The aim is to help non-profit  institutions from countries that are members of the United Nations, UNESCO or IAEA to implement the automated production of on-line scientific content (via webinars) and e-learning and distance education (via web lectures).

The SDU grant provides a complete set of the openEyA recording system (worth  about 650 Euros), including all necessary hardware and software. It may be awarded to up to three different organizations.

The recording system consists of a Netbook, (which comes installed with openEyA and the Linux Open Source operating system), an omni-directional USB microphone, a digital camera, a webcam, and power cables.  For more details on the grant read here.

Applications must be received by Thursday 25 February 2010.

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