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This repository is used to export a video from a bigbluebutton recording.

bbb-export

This project is based on createwebinar/bbb-download. In the original project you are only able to see the presentation and the extracted audio. This project shows the presentation (Important! No wideboard functions besides zooming) and the webcams of all participants stacked up next it. The video height is now 1280 pixel, whereas the width is variable.

Requirements

  • python3
  • ffmpeg compiled with libx264 support

Usage

Specify in ffmpeg.py the variable FFMPEG with the location of ffmpeg. There is a precompiled version of ffmpeg in the folder ffmpeg.

python3 convert.py meeting_id

The video will be at the folder /var/bigbluebutton/published/presentation/<meeting_id>/output.mp4