How to stream video independent of conference

[Gil Yoder]

Is it possible to stream the instructor or moderator's video stream independent of a running conference for viewers other than conferees? If so, can you point me to some documentation to enable that?

Thanks!

Gil

[Fred Dixon]

Hi Gil,

There isn't any capability built into BigBlueButton for doing that (yet).  It's somewhat related to sharing a video in a conference.

We did have a broadcast module written a few years ago (not completed) that allowed the presenter to select a set of streams and broadcast them to the students.  A stream could be from a red5 server which, in turn, was receiving a stream coming from the presenter's webcam.

The set of streams would be pre-configured and loaded by client on startup.

The broadcast module hasn't been updated in a few years and would need work to be compatible with BigBlueButton 1.1-beta.  The lack of updates is not neglect; rather, there have been more promising areas that require our attention (such as finishing 1.1 and working on the HTML5 client).

I would be curious if there are other members of bigbluebutton-dev that are interested in this feature?

Regards,... Fred

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[Chad Pilkey]

I believe the video streams all use the meetingId as part of them. Some (or all, I'm not sure) check that you are actually a part of the conference before allowing you in too. It might be possible to hack it, but there's no official way to do it right now.

[Sina Tabesh]

This feature is actually very much in demand by our instructors.

On Monday, March 27, 2017 at 9:19:40 AM UTC-7, Fred Dixon wrote:

Hi Gil,

There isn't any capability built into BigBlueButton for doing that (yet).  It's somewhat related to sharing a video in a conference.

We did have a broadcast module written a few years ago (not completed) that allowed the presenter to select a set of streams and broadcast them to the students.  A stream could be from a red5 server which, in turn, was receiving a stream coming from the presenter's webcam.

The set of streams would be pre-configured and loaded by client on startup.

The broadcast module hasn't been updated in a few years and would need work to be compatible with BigBlueButton 1.1-beta.  The lack of updates is not neglect; rather, there have been more promising areas that require our attention (such as finishing 1.1 and working on the HTML5 client).

I would be curious if there are other members of bigbluebutton-dev that are interested in this feature?

Regards,... Fred

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Gil Yoder <gil....@oabs.org> wrote:

Is it possible to stream the instructor or moderator's video stream independent of a running conference for viewers other than conferees? If so, can you point me to some documentation to enable that?

Thanks!

Gil

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[Luis Rosario]

I would love this feature. It would eliminate use of a in between server to broadcast a conference. If Bigbluebutton could provide a single rtmp stream for a given conference, integration with other systems would be easier.