Video Chat Recording
- Thread starter Ney
- Start date
Hello.
Yes you can record streams from web, android, ios sdks.
The recording is done on stream base.
So if you have a two-way video chat, then two mp4 or webM files will be recorded.
The first file will present first participant / stream.
The second file will present second participant / stream.
Yes you can record streams from web, android, ios sdks.
The recording is done on stream base.
So if you have a two-way video chat, then two mp4 or webM files will be recorded.
The first file will present first participant / stream.
The second file will present second participant / stream.
Hi! Thanks for your response!!
Do we need to pass any record:true param in the SDKs or does it happen by default? If we need to pass anything, then can you please let me know what to pass in case of video chatting via iOS SDK?
Secondly, in your example you mentioned 2 streams being recorded, each one for its own participant. Does it mean that none of these recordings will be the full video chat recording? In participant 1's recording we can only watch participant 1 and in participant 2's recording we can only watch participant 2? We were looking for a full video chat recording which can provide us audio and video for all the participants in a single file.
Please advise. Thanks for your help!
Do we need to pass any record:true param in the SDKs or does it happen by default? If we need to pass anything, then can you please let me know what to pass in case of video chatting via iOS SDK?
Secondly, in your example you mentioned 2 streams being recorded, each one for its own participant. Does it mean that none of these recordings will be the full video chat recording? In participant 1's recording we can only watch participant 1 and in participant 2's recording we can only watch participant 2? We were looking for a full video chat recording which can provide us audio and video for all the participants in a single file.
Please advise. Thanks for your help!
Yes you have to pass the param for any publishing stream.
Please checkout Stream Recording example for iOS SDK
https://github.com/flashphoner/wcs-ios-sdk-samples/tree/master/WCSExample/StreamRecording
Yes. It would be two separate mp4 files.
You will have to merge these two files on server-side using another software like ffmpeg.
Yes.
This feature is not currently implemented. Though we have similar story in our roadmap, so there is a chance it will be released in future versions.
Hi
To get recording of any stream, we need to provide options.record = true through instance of FPWCSApi2StreamOptions. But at the time of video chat publish stream object is getting created through below method
I had checked, FPWCSApi2StreamOptions is not a public property, so that I can set the record options after creating the stream. It should be set at the time of initialising the instance of FPWCSApi2Stream
Please suggest how we can set the property for record in case of video chat then ?
To get recording of any stream, we need to provide options.record = true through instance of FPWCSApi2StreamOptions. But at the time of video chat publish stream object is getting created through below method
Code:
publishStream = [room publish:_localDisplay];Please suggest how we can set the property for record in case of video chat then ?
Hello
We have added ability to record streams through the room.
Try latest iOS SDK build:
https://flashphoner.com/downloads/builds/flashphoner_client/wcs-ios-sdk/WCS-iOS-SDK-2.5.0.tar.gz
Here you can find working example:
https://github.com/flashphoner/wcs-ios-sdk-samples/commit/2fddea5efedd4460b96eae7a3e59ad14e7090cfd
Please note. It was not verified by our QA team. It is on verification now.
We have added ability to record streams through the room.
Try latest iOS SDK build:
https://flashphoner.com/downloads/builds/flashphoner_client/wcs-ios-sdk/WCS-iOS-SDK-2.5.0.tar.gz
Here you can find working example:
https://github.com/flashphoner/wcs-ios-sdk-samples/commit/2fddea5efedd4460b96eae7a3e59ad14e7090cfd
Please note. It was not verified by our QA team. It is on verification now.
Hi Max,
Hope this finds you well!
We have implemented the iOS SDK to record the Video Chat. For each participant we are able to save the recording on the server. We are also able to merge all of these together, but we are not able to figure out how to go about merging the files based on the time of joining. Suppose the second participant joins 5 minutes after the first participant, how can we merge the videos such that the video of the participant starts 5 minutes after the first participants's video?
Furthermore, our flow is customized so that only the first participant's video and audio streams are on. We by default mute the video stream of all the other participants. Only their audio stream stays on. Hence we are not so much concerned with merging the video streams together. We only need to merge the audio streams with the first participant's video. So in my above example, we will always view the video of the first participant (as long as he's in the room otherwise we will show only a black screen). 5 minutes into the video we will start hearing the second participant along with the first participant. How can we achieve the merging of audio streams into a video file based on the time of joining of each participant?
Your help is very much appreciated by everyone here!
Thanks
Hope this finds you well!
We have implemented the iOS SDK to record the Video Chat. For each participant we are able to save the recording on the server. We are also able to merge all of these together, but we are not able to figure out how to go about merging the files based on the time of joining. Suppose the second participant joins 5 minutes after the first participant, how can we merge the videos such that the video of the participant starts 5 minutes after the first participants's video?
Furthermore, our flow is customized so that only the first participant's video and audio streams are on. We by default mute the video stream of all the other participants. Only their audio stream stays on. Hence we are not so much concerned with merging the video streams together. We only need to merge the audio streams with the first participant's video. So in my above example, we will always view the video of the first participant (as long as he's in the room otherwise we will show only a black screen). 5 minutes into the video we will start hearing the second participant along with the first participant. How can we achieve the merging of audio streams into a video file based on the time of joining of each participant?
Your help is very much appreciated by everyone here!
Thanks
Hello
Thanks for detail explanation.
We are considering options to improve stream recording experience.
We plan to add empty video and audio into the beginning of recorded file, starting from moment of creation of the room.
So, for example, if first participant has created the room on 8:00:54 sec 352 ms than it will be starting point for all recordings.
Therefore if second participant joined 30 seconds later, his / her recorded file will have 30 seconds of black screen in the beginning of the file.
If third participant joined 60 seconds later, his / her recorded file will have 60 seconds of black screen n the beginning of the file.
etc.
Therefore eventually you will have to just merge these several files having the same length in time.
We will update once we have any news related this room recording improvement.
Thanks for detail explanation.
We are considering options to improve stream recording experience.
We plan to add empty video and audio into the beginning of recorded file, starting from moment of creation of the room.
So, for example, if first participant has created the room on 8:00:54 sec 352 ms than it will be starting point for all recordings.
Therefore if second participant joined 30 seconds later, his / her recorded file will have 30 seconds of black screen in the beginning of the file.
If third participant joined 60 seconds later, his / her recorded file will have 60 seconds of black screen n the beginning of the file.
etc.
Therefore eventually you will have to just merge these several files having the same length in time.
We will update once we have any news related this room recording improvement.
Hello
This feature is implemented in the new branch.
It should be released next week.
Implementation:
We add empty audio+video in the beginning of recorded file.
So all files have the same recording duration synchronized related to the starting point of the first record in a room.
This feature is implemented in the new branch.
It should be released next week.
Implementation:
We add empty audio+video in the beginning of recorded file.
So all files have the same recording duration synchronized related to the starting point of the first record in a room.