connect bbb2.2 to opencast8

[Amtoj Singh]

Hello all

While installing my conferencing system I am not able to integrate bbb2.2 with opencast7/8 as no supported plugin version available.
Please help if you have already developed the plugin for the same.

Thanks

[Fred Dixon]

Hi Amtoj,

We did have an integration about 7 years ago that would send the video component of a recording to Opencast (this wouldn't include the slide presentation or whiteboard marks as they are played back using Javascript and images).  Still, if the meeting was sharing audio, webcams, and screen -- there is a video that could be sent to Opencast for ingesting. 

Are you a developer?  Is this something you would be interested in working on?  If so, we could give you some guidance on how to implement it.

Regards,... Fred

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[Amtoj Singh]

Hello Fred

Yes, I am a developer and focusing on this plugin as it is much required. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

On Monday, 24 February 2020 19:21:01 UTC+5:30, Fred Dixon wrote:

Hi Amtoj,

We did have an integration about 7 years ago that would send the video component of a recording to Opencast (this wouldn't include the slide presentation or whiteboard marks as they are played back using Javascript and images).  Still, if the meeting was sharing audio, webcams, and screen -- there is a video that could be sent to Opencast for ingesting. 

Are you a developer?  Is this something you would be interested in working on?  If so, we could give you some guidance on how to implement it.

Regards,... Fred

On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 7:34 AM Amtoj Singh <amto...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello all

While installing my conferencing system I am not able to integrate bbb2.2 with opencast7/8 as no supported plugin version available.
Please help if you have already developed the plugin for the same.

Thanks

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[Fred Dixon]

Hi Amtoj,

Sounds good.  This is the key part of the documentation

  http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/dev/recording.html#for-developers

The record and playback script that process raw data into a recording format are written in Ruby.  There are hooks to put in your own scripts to do additional actions.  Take a look at the above .  You'll want to install the recording format

  bbb-playback-screenshare

that gives you a single video file (minus presentation area) of the audio + video + screenshare.  With this single video, and the above docs, try creating a post publish script that will send the video (along with meta data) to OpenCast for ingestion.

Regards,... Fred

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[Lars Kiesow]

Hi everyone,

I already posted this on GitHub but I'll add it here as well just in case someone stumbles over this thread.

There is a fully functional integration available at:

  https://weblog.lkiesow.de/20200318-integrate-bigbluebutton-opencast/

The blog post I wrote is fully functional and you can use it with BigBlueButton 2.x + Opencast 8.x

That said, expect a major update to be released soon. We are currently working on it. I can probably post a longer description of the upcoming integration in the next days (will do so at the GitHub issue) but here is a summary:

- The problem with the integration I wrote is that the video transcoding still happens on the BigBlueButton servers and video files are kept on that cluster. We would like to offload these as soon as possible. E.g. replacing the archive step.
- We transfer the files including cutting information to Opencast for processing and publication. Right now, we are still not handling all possible data (e.g. we ignore chat messages) but that's something that might change over time.
- If your front-end passes metadata to BigBlueButton, we use those for Opencast. Right now, that's mainly to ensure that recordings will end up in a specific Opencast series and thus in a specific LMS course.


And some technical advice: Please don't try using the old integration