Making MP4 conversion work in BBB 2.6

[manish katyan]

Hi,

From our recent experience, listing out steps to convert recordings into MP4 format in BBB 2.6. 

Hope this helps!

1. Install Additional recording formats.

   1. apt install bbb-playback-video

2. Enable the steps in /usr/local/bigbluebutton/core/scripts/bigbluebutton.yml

   1. 1steps: 2 archive: 'sanity' 3 sanity: 'captions' 4 captions: 5 - 'process:presentation' 6 - 'process:video' 7 'process:presentation': 'publish:presentation' 8 'process:video': 'publish:video'

3. Restart the recording process

   1. systemctl restart bbb-rap-resque-worker.service

   2. NOTE: According to bbb google group nginx also need to be restarted some times
      systemctl restart nginx

4. Convert existing recording mp4 video

   1. bbb-record --rebuild record_id

5. Remove the “Recorded by bigbluebutton“ footer

   1. vi /usr/local/bigbluebutton/core/playback/video/index.html.erb

   2. Remove the <footer> tag

6. Example get recording response

   1. <response> 2<returncode>SUCCESS</returncode> 3<recordings> 4<recording> 5<recordID>0847a4d65a650d2f1f157350291d921bb05be298-1680260929672</recordID> 6<meetingID>0847a4d65a650d2f1f157350291d921bb05be298-1680260929672</meetingID> 7<name>random-5372290</name> 8<isBreakout>false</isBreakout> 9<published>true</published> 10<state>available</state> 11<startTime>1680260929672</startTime> 12<endTime>1680260969633</endTime> 13<participants>0</participants> 14<rawSize>0</rawSize> 15<metadata> 16<isBreakout>false</isBreakout> 17<meetingId>random-5372290</meetingId> 18<meetingName>random-5372290</meetingName> 19</metadata> 20<size>1158085</size> 21<playback> 22<format> 23<type>video</type> 24<url>https://webinars.ruzuku.com/playback/video/0847a4d65a650d2f1f157350291d921bb05be298-1680260929672/</url> 25<processingTime>0</processingTime> 26<length>0</length> 27<size>0</size> 28</format> 29<format> 30<type>presentation</type> 31<url>https://webinars.ruzuku.com/playback/presentation/2.3/0847a4d65a650d2f1f157350291d921bb05be298-1680260929672</url> 32<processingTime>2495</processingTime> 33<length>0</length> 34<size>1158085</size> 35</format> 36</playback> 37<data/> 38</recording> 39</recordings> 40</response>

- Manish Katyan

https://higheredlab.com