Need emergency help with editing a BBB video

[stefan....@realcme.com]

We have been searching online for some kind of BBB customer service and have not been able to find any. We had a live web meeting via BBB that we recorded. The meeting was only 44 mins long, but for some reason, the video kept running and so the whole video is 2 hours long. We do not know how this happened, and now we must edit this recording and cut off the excess video. How can we do this? Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. 

[Chad Pilkey]

These Google Groups are the customer service. What likely happened is that someone stayed in the meeting after the end time and held it open. In 2.0 we added an option when a moderator logs out to end the meeting to avoid these types of situations. You can also use the recording start/stop to dictate which sections should show up in the final recording. The recordings also aren't technically a video (it's a combination of file types all played back to a media track) so you can't just import to an editing program and edit it.

To fix the problem I think you can edit the recording's events.xml and move the end event and then reprocess the recording. The raw files for the recording should be found in /var/bigbluebutton/recording/raw/<internal-meeting-id>. You'll then have to find when you think it should have ended and insert an event to stop the recording. The form of the event to stop recording looks like:

  <event timestamp="1045566863" module="PARTICIPANT" eventname="RecordStatusEvent">
    <userId>hdhc90bkmcrf_1</userId>
    <status>false</status>
  </event>

Once you've put that into the raw version I believe you can rebuild the recording (sudo bbb-record --rebuild <internal-meeting-id>) and it should cut the recording off at the new end point.