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lacks such feature. A few of the biggest problems with capturing and streaming with the

Viper has to do with the IP-portal and how most features revolve around it. The IP-

portal is used to for publishing and streaming content, editing stream settings, editing

metadata as well as exporting published files. The Viper saves all content in two sepa-

rate files with the video saved in H.264 format and information as metadata, which re-

quires the IP-portal to edit.

It must be said that being able to edit the metadata is a welcome feature, even if it can

only be accomplished via the IP-portal. The downside of the Viper saving its content in

two separate files is that if the user does not wish to use the server provided by Viper

or decides to export the content and then publish it on their own, the files need to be

combined together before being able to be published. This means that it adds to the

workload of the presenter. A slightly less important issue with the Viper is that once a

seminar is captured and saved or published, all of the content is sorted by date, rather

than name, on the Vipers servers, unless the metadata is changed right before the cap-

turing starts. Thus making it tricky to navigate through all of the published content and

find the desired lecture content.

The main issue that the Viper has is that even though it is an all-in-one appliance, it still

requires a person to maintain it, to check the cables and settings regularly, possibly

even right before every presentation. This presents a problem since, one of the wishes

of Metropolia is for the device to be as automated as possible, to minimise the amount

of effort required by the lecturer, as was the case with the CaptureLive HD.

The Haivision Viper does indeed live up to its slogan, the Record & Stream all-in-one

device but unfortunately for the Viper, there were too many problems and disad-

vantages that occurred during the initial testing phase, to warrant any further testing.

Regrettably even if the Viper had not broken down, it did not fulfil the core requirements

even though on paper it was very promising.

4.4 Adobe ConnectPro

The Adobe ConnectPro solution was a combination of several items that were then set-

up into a working system. The package included a Logitech BCC950 Conference PTZ-

webcam, a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2-soundcard (USB) and two Shure MX391 micro-