I’m investigating leveraging MayFirst’s jitsi instance for some courses for a nonprofit I work with. One of the things they want to have is the ability to record meetings. I wonder if we’ve investigated deploying Jibri so we can record meetings? I’d be interested in helping deploy and configure this (I’ve never done so but would be willing to try/help) as long as theres no hard fast reason we cannot.
All the best,
Jericho
Hi @jerichoindiv - Yes, we have investigated deploying jibri. But, unfortunately, it is very resource intensive. Each jibri deployment can record exactly one meeting at a time. That means we have to deploy enough instances to cover all the simultaneous meetings that might want a recording, which is nearly impossible to predict, which means there would not be a way to reasonable ensure you would have the ability to record. Alternatively, we could deploy some kind of reservation system, but that would be many hours of development time and complexity that we are not in a position to do.
Fortunately, there is the option to make a local recording - anyone can do that. It has the disadvantage of only recording what is on your screen - so it inhibits your ability to use the chat, etc. but it does work. If you have access to more than one computer, you can record on one computer and participate on the other. Do you think that might meet your needs?
jamie
jamie
Hi Jericho, like jamie mentioned if your org needs to make recordings now a temporary workaround is using the local recording feature in the Jitsi web client we serve through https://meet.mayfirst.org and https://i.meet.mayfirst.org . The client itself provides a mechanism for recording locally to a webm file. This only seems to work through the Chrome browser but it records both audio and video and the results are very good. Unfortunately it does not respect local volume mixing preferences so if you are using our interpretation features it will record the interpreters voice on top of all other audio and doesn’t allow you to get a clear recording.