henriquebol / bbb-recorder

BigBlueButton recorder using puppeteer to export as webm or mp4 file

bbb-recorder

Bigbluebutton recordings to webm or mp4. This is an example how I have implemented BBB recordings to distibutable file.

1. Videos will be copied to /var/www/bigbluebutton-default/record
2. Can converted to mp4. Default webm
3. Specify bitrate to control quality of the exported video by adjusting videoBitsPerSecond property in background.js

Dependencies

1. xvfb (apt install xvfb)
2. npm modules listed in package.json (npm install)

Usage

Clone the project first:

git clone https://github.com/jibon57/bbb-recorder
cd bbb-recorder
npm install

Now run:

node export.js "https://BBB_HOST/playback/presentation/2.0/playback.html?meetingId=MEETING_ID" meeting.webm 10 true

Options

You can pass 4 args

1. BBB recording link
2. Export file name. Should be .webm at end
3. Duration of recording in seconds. Default 10 seconds
4. Convert to mp4 or not (true for convert to mp4). Default false

How it will work?

When you will run the command that time chromium browser will be open in background & visit the link & perform screen recording. So, if you have set 10 seconds then it will record 10 seconds only. Later it will give you file as webm or mp4.

Note: It will use extra CPU to process chrome & ffmpeg.

Thanks to @muralikg. Everything was copied from there & I did some adjustment.

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