Planet eStream vs PuMuKIT

Planet eStream is an education platform that brings media management together with lecture and room capture, live streaming, digital signage, TV and radio resources, and photo management. Its room-capture tools can schedule and record lessons or lectures, then stream them using autonomous hardware. The system can capture several audio and video sources at once, including cameras, microphones, whiteboards, and projectors. Automatic transcription can add subtitles, and searchable transcripts are supported. A web scheduler works from any internet-connected device and can publish recordings to Microsoft Office 365 calendars; viewers can ask questions in live-stream chat. Administrators can manage access by user or group. Listed integrations include Microsoft Teams, OneNote, Sway, SharePoint, PowerPoint, Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard, and Google Classroom. Authentication options include Microsoft Azure AD, LDAP, Active Directory, Microsoft ADFS, SAML2/Shibboleth, and Google Login. Planet eStream is offered as a cloud platform or locally hosted option. Pricing is on request and modular; room capture has no per-room licence cost and no limit on rooms.

PuMuKIT is a free, open-source video platform for organizations with large collections of video or audio. It can run a complete media site on an organization's own infrastructure, with a customizable portal for browsing by series and category. Portal widgets can surface related, most-viewed, and recently added videos. Publisher tools include drag-and-drop cataloguing, autocomplete, interactive forms, and UNESCO science and technology tags. An Opencast module supports presenting and cataloguing Opencast videos in the portal. The site describes distribution to services such as YouTube and iTunes U and learning systems including Moodle and Open edX. Organizations can provide live event channels and keep recordings available on demand. Playback supports HTML5 and Flash, with the portal described as usable in desktop browsers and on Android, iPhone, and iPad. The downloads page lists PuMuKIT 4.2.4 as the latest stable release and recommends it for production. Version 4.x is based on Symfony 5 and MongoDB. Community support is offered through mailing lists in English and Spanish. Older 1.x, 2.x, and 3.x versions are not community-supported.