BBB auto recording feature

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Filipe Silva

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Mar 29, 2017, 11:06:35 AM3/29/17
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Hi, i'm new here! :)

Im using bbb 1.1 with moodle.
I noticed that instead of the recording feature be managed within a session (with the circle button) bbb auto records every meeting from start to finish in the folder "/var/freeswitch/meetings" and not the recordings managed by the circular button... are they in another folder?
And, is it possible to disable the auto record feature?

Thanks

Juan Pablo Miranda

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Mar 29, 2017, 11:41:18 AM3/29/17
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Hi Filipe,


And, yes it is possible to turn on/off the auto record feature in the bigbluebuttonbn module configuration
You can access going your Moodle: Administration / Site administration / Plugins / Plugins overview / Bigbluebuttonbn / Settings ... and look at the check boxes on 'Configuration for "Recording" feature'.

Regards
JP

Fred Dixon

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Mar 30, 2017, 8:02:31 AM3/30/17
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Hi Felipe,

In a recorded meeting, the clicking of the Start/Stop Record button places events in the events.xml file for a recording.  You can find them on your server by doing the command

  locate events.xml

When the recording is processed, the record and playback scripts will extract out all segments between each start and stop record event and create a single playback.

Regards,... Fred

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Filipe Silva

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Mar 30, 2017, 9:47:32 AM3/30/17
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So the auto-record feature is mandatory.
Ok, thanks for the clarification!


quinta-feira, 30 de Março de 2017 às 13:02:31 UTC+1, Fred Dixon escreveu:
Hi Felipe,

In a recorded meeting, the clicking of the Start/Stop Record button places events in the events.xml file for a recording.  You can find them on your server by doing the command

  locate events.xml

When the recording is processed, the record and playback scripts will extract out all segments between each start and stop record event and create a single playback.

Regards,... Fred
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 10:06 AM, Filipe Silva <silva.f...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, i'm new here! :)

Im using bbb 1.1 with moodle.
I noticed that instead of the recording feature be managed within a session (with the circle button) bbb auto records every meeting from start to finish in the folder "/var/freeswitch/meetings" and not the recordings managed by the circular button... are they in another folder?
And, is it possible to disable the auto record feature?

Thanks

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Felipe Caetano

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Feb 6, 2018, 4:54:07 PM2/6/18
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Hey!

I'm sorry about resurrecting this topic, but I had a little problem and here is how I solved, in case anyone need it.

A moderator misclicked in the stop recording button and we only realized it when it was already too late.
I tried rebuilding the recording, hoping it would publish the entire session instead. Obviously didn't work.
Then I followed Fred Dixon instructions in this topic and analyzed  the  /var/bigbluebutton/recording/raw/<internal-id>/events.xml file.
After some greps, I figured that the event name for "clicking in the recording button" is "RecordStatusEvent".
Something like
  <event timestamp="123456789" module="PARTICIPANT" eventname="RecordStatusEvent">
    <userId>abcdefgh_1</userId>
    <status>false</status> <!-- or true, if the event was about activating therecording -->
  </event>
So we even managed to find out who misclicked it. :P
I just deleted the entire element and rebuilt the recording again. 
Works like a charm.


Em quinta-feira, 30 de março de 2017 09:02:31 UTC-3, Fred Dixon escreveu:
Hi Felipe,

In a recorded meeting, the clicking of the Start/Stop Record button places events in the events.xml file for a recording.  You can find them on your server by doing the command

  locate events.xml

When the recording is processed, the record and playback scripts will extract out all segments between each start and stop record event and create a single playback.

Regards,... Fred
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 10:06 AM, Filipe Silva <silva.f...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, i'm new here! :)

Im using bbb 1.1 with moodle.
I noticed that instead of the recording feature be managed within a session (with the circle button) bbb auto records every meeting from start to finish in the folder "/var/freeswitch/meetings" and not the recordings managed by the circular button... are they in another folder?
And, is it possible to disable the auto record feature?

Thanks

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Fred Dixon

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Feb 6, 2018, 8:15:53 PM2/6/18
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Hi Felipe,

Thanks for sharing this!

Regards,... Fred


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