Video recording / streaming

Investigate

• Via YouTube https://jitsi.org/live-streaming-and-recording-a-jitsi-conference/
• local recording

mentioned in issue #18 (closed)

Enabled the streaming feature, but it does not accept the YouTube live streaming key https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/3188#issuecomment-448986651

Jigasi only supports audio recording, difficult to set up.

JitsiMeet had video recording, but is deprecated https://community.jitsi.org/t/jitsi-users-colibri-type-recording-as-opposed-to-jibri/13456/2

Jibri is the way to go https://github.com/jitsi/jibri but is quite some effort, requires separate VM with alsa installed, and that can only handle one stream

changed time estimate to 1d 4h

@inderaue23 Streaming Service hatten wir vor 20 Jahren mit "publicvoice.fm" mal im Portfolio, wurde aber wenig genützt.

Für PeerTube brauchen wir noch eine Anschubfinanzierung, um dies sauber aufzusetzen und anzupassen, hier kann man sich beteiligen https://erp.fairkom.net/investment/fairtube-investment-fykva

That's how local recording looks like at meet.jt.si https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4744

We recommend to use vokoscreen (Linux Desktop) or similar screen recording tools.

Offering a server sided recording feature is not only a technical challenge, but also a subtle GDPR issue.

Local audio recording of the own track could be activated, others would need to send in their local recordings and then you mix it. This is a GDPR compliant solution and has been tested. https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4744#issuecomment-599060614

However, it seems only moderators can start a recording, which is not enough: also patricipants would need to be able to start a local recording, And the UX is a bit weard, if somebody needs to mix it later and there is no video.

Let's see which solution will come up with XR people https://c3subtitles.de/talk/1232/

Jibri on Kubernetes: https://community.jitsi.org/t/jibri-on-kubernetes/20927

Streaming on Youtube will also require Jibri as a recorder / encoder: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/5229#issuecomment-604689743 - Jibri is not that simple to set up, is a candidate for k8s @armin.felder - there is a docker image https://github.com/jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet/tree/master/jibri

changed title from Video recording to Video recording / streaming

Fetching and compiling video with Open Broadcaster Software and then encodes to an SRT stream https://obsproject.com/wiki/Streaming-With-SRT-Protocol

Streaming with SRT server https://github.com/Haivision/srt/blob/master/docs/srt-live-transmit.md

Watching SRT requires e.g. latest VLC

But Jibri produces an rtmp stream.

We would need to repace the Youtube URL here https://github.com/jitsi/jibri/blob/master/src/main/kotlin/org/jitsi/jibri/service/impl/StreamingJibriService.kt#L34

private const val YOUTUBE_URL = "rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2"

init {
        sink = StreamSink(
            url = "$YOUTUBE_URL/${streamingParams.youTubeStreamKey}",
            streamingMaxBitrate = STREAMING_MAX_BITRATE,
            streamingBufSize = 2 * STREAMING_MAX_BITRATE
        )

We could stream with an NGINX server https://medium.com/@sudeepdasgupta/video-streaming-with-rtmp-module-f46dea0829fe

Setting up nginx rtmp is explained here nicely: https://opensource.com/article/19/1/basic-live-video-streaming-server

SOLUTION: Open Broadcasting Software is a great streaming open source software: https://obsproject.com/

1. Download OBS on a (separate, performing) PC or laptop
2. Define as Source a browser and enter the conference room as URL https://fairmeeting.net/streamtest Remember, that the first user in a fairmeeting room gets moderator rights, so you probably should open this OBS capturing instance after you have opened it on the laptop of the event moderator.
3. In the browser settings, use 1920x1080 and route Audio to OBS
4. Right-click - interact so that you can click away the warnings, that no camera is attached to the OBS-internal browser. You may also switch on tile view.
5. Start your recording of the meeting
6. If you want to stream, define a streaming server from the list

For Youtube you need to get a key (see bottom of the Live Dashboard page, use link in OBS "Get streaming key"). Or use any other streaming platform or set up your own with nginx (see above).

You can save your configuration as a scene in OBS and open it next time simply on a command line
obs --scene "myremoteliveevent" --startrecording --startstreaming

Thank you Jaromil for the hint with OBS. He was a former fellow of fairkom, we had set up publicvoice.fm 20 years ago!

marked the checklist item Via YouTube https://jitsi.org/live-streaming-and-recording-a-jitsi-conference/ as completed

marked the checklist item local recording as completed

We have now launched https://fairteaching.net (based on BigBlueButton), which is a nice videoconferencing software that has streaming included.

Another nice option to start recordings is to use this RecordRTC Chrome browser extension.

This even would allow to start from within a web service, see https://github.com/muaz-khan/Chrome-Extensions/tree/master/screen-recording

• Option Record Chrome Tab records audio from other participants, but not my own audio
• Option Record Screen + Microphone + Speaker did not record audio from others, to be tested again @dimitri.hofer Currently only works for the first recording, afterwards the sound of the speakers is missing.

So not to be visible yourself launch a browser with

https://fairmeeting.net/test#config.iAmRecorder=true

and let OBS capture that screen.

Here is another tutorial to install Jibri on an extra server https://community.jitsi.org/t/how-to-to-setup-integrated-jitsi-and-jibri-for-dummies-my-comprehensive-tutorial-for-the-beginner/35718/2

If we would have Jibri, we could easily stream as shown here also to other streaming servers https://community.jitsi.org/t/how-do-i-change-youtube-live-stream-to-another-rtmp-server-url/24817/7?u=rasos

Streaming server variants see https://git.fairkom.net/fairapps/portfolio/-/issues/23