PanoCap

Panopto Capture is for downloading offline lectures and other video streams combining the difference video streams into one file.

Prerequisites

1. Install python
2. Install certifi using PIP, PIP install certifi.

First use

1. Log into your Panopto account on a web browser, copy the ASPXAUTH cookie, a very long Hex string (512 characters), eg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
2. Enter your ASPXAUTH cookie and ID and your off!

Notice

• Currently only works for Cardiff University Panopto
• Currently only works on Windows
• Will download ffmpeg.exe, ffplay.exe and ffprobe.exe on first run from https://ffmpeg.org/

Settings

All settings can be accessed in the settings.ini that is generated on first run. This includes:

• Directories

  • basedir - Where the videos will be downloaded to
  • netloc - No implemented yet
  • seshfile - Where the raw data for each video and group is stored
  • csvfile - Where meta data for each video can be edited, i.e. group and video names
  • logfile - Where the log data is stored

• Cookies

  • aspxauth - your unique key that allows logging into the server, never share this with anyone
  • sandboxcookie - unused, no longer needed
  • csrftoken - unused, no longer needed
  • yourid - your log in ID

• Modifiers

  • group_regex - The regex that generates the group names, default: ^.?:\s(\d{2})/(\d{2})-(.)
  • excluded_groups - Groups that you do not want to download videos from
  • only_groups- Groups that you only want to download videos from
  • excluded_session_ids - Video ID's you dont want to download

• Settings

  • istest - True to run in test mode
  • num_treads - number of simultaneous threads that will preform actions e.g. get data from server, download from server and transcode video files, set to 1+, be aware, more threads dosen't mean quicker.
  • queuelength - Max number of tasks each thread can have queued.

• StreamTypes - For renaming stream types to something more useful, it is shown when switching video streams.

To Do

1. Add url option to enable other than cardiff panopto
2. Remove uneeded cookie options
3. Remove compress sessions unless better/more efficient encoding is found - help would be appricated in this
4. Fix resizing/layout
5. Edit names in program rather than via CSV
6. Exclude groups and sessions in program rather than in settings