New features:
- A simplified echo test mode that only does a local loopback (instead of
going to FS and back)
- A volume meter for microphone streams to the AudioSettings view
Those two features are experimental and disabled by default; see
public.app.media.simplifiedEchoTest and public.app.media.showVolumeMeter configs
Collateral changes:
- fix: localize fallback device strings in AudioSettings/DeviceSelector
- Refactor on some media stream utils to be re-usable across components
- Refactor in AudioSettings to keep gUM #uses stable.
* TODO: need to pass streams through AudioManager to avoid the surplus gUM.
- fix(audio): drop ScriptProcessorNode usage (deprecated)
* Used in volume meter for tracking - use hark instead
Tries to mitigate too-rapidly-switching camera profiles causing video freezes
due to encoder resets. Excluding constraints might not help a lot since
the thing that actually restarts the encoder is the bitrate change, but
they're not really important in the context of dynamic profiles.
We can't get rid of bitrate changes, though, since it's what does the actual
quality constraining.
The camera profile change debounce timer is 2.5s by default (which is
the same timer used for floor changes).
Also fixed an issue with camera profile backfiring due to badly defined peers
Include `meetingCameraCap` API param on create and enforce both server and
client to control the number of simultaneous webcams a meeting can have.
Disabled by default.
Include `userCameraCap` API param on create and enforce both server and
client to control the number of simultaneous webcams an user can share.
Default set to 3.
video-provider is a race-condition prone mess and those callbacks were missing try-catches so eventual failures would bubble up as uncaught errors and not be logged properly
It`s worth mentioning that due to a number of tangential design failures in that component, 90% of the errors generate are, to the end user, invisible false positives. Thus: expect an increase in false-positive errors logs with this
Makes clicking the camera button always open the video preview modal
when a camera is already shared on a mobile endpoint even when
skip_video_preview is true.
This allows mobile users to change virtual backgrounds.
Video preview modal opens when user clicks on the webcam selector
button/chevron even if the client is set to skip video preview
(userdata-bbb_skip_video_preview=true).
Added extra proptypes validation to video-list-item
Made sure to add extra ?. checks to voiceUsers as well because... who knows?
Removed unused user role prop from video-list-item
The base peer object reference was moved from the component to service for _reasons_
That caused an issue where the component lifecycle would mess up that
centralized reference dictionary on certain conditions. That could cause viewing
sessions to fail intermittently
This reverts the location of the base dictionary reference back to
video-provider/component
Fix a problem that username in video container isn't wrapped if it's too long.
Fix a problem that can cause the audio indicator to disappear.
Fix some problems with the overflow property.
Refactor in css for the talking indicator be more centralized
- forceRelayOnFirefox: whether TURN/relay usage should be forced to work
around Firefox's lack of support for regular nomination when dealing with
ICE-litee peers (e.g.: mediasoup).
* See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1034964
- iOS endpoints are ignored from the trigger because _all_ iOS browsers
are either native WebKit or WKWebView based (so they shouldn't be affected)
Add the <ButtonEmoji/> to the webcam button. Now it
is possible to change the webcam settings and change
your settings without having to turn off sharing.
Modifies the <ButtonEmoji/> component so that it can
receive an onClick per props.
It is possible to disable this feat in the settings.yml
ICE lite servers (eg mediasoup) dont need candidates signaled out-of-band; neither does KMS in certain scenarios
Disable their signaling saves us some ticks in bbb-webrtc-sfu and some bandwidth all around
There could be a race condition where a peer creation (async) would resolve after the provider was unmounted
That would lead to a state inconsistency which could generate all sorts of cryptic problems
Applies to video, listen only and screen sharing
New metadata values: media-server-video, media-server-listenonly, media-server-screenshare; parameter is a String
Added support for getStats in screenshare's service. This works similar
to the getStats for video provider, and the information retrieved from
screenshare is added to the video information for cameras.
We now retrieve update information about active video peers, and calculates
download and upload rates. These rates are the sum of data transfered in
all video peers.
Screenshare stats is not being added to the sum, yet.
Let the server generate subscriber offers so that it becomes easier for us to
do payload type normalization between publishers and subscribers
Also split peer creation for pubs and subs into separate methods for clarity
Should fix an issue with the recent Chrome 92 intervention that limits
the number of concurrent WebMediaPlayers (an inner element of
HTMLMediaElements) to 75/40.
Webcam video elements were being left dangling in paused state despite
the elements themselves being cleaned up from the component. That
generated a skewed accounting of WebMediaPlayers in the session.
Changes (maybe not a complete list):
- Disable virtualbgs by default
- Move the virtualbg selector in video-preview to the side below the
profile selection
- Restore old video-preview sizes
- Add a wrapper class for MediaStreams (BBBVideoStream)
- Centralize virtualbg services and business logic code into BBBVideoStream
- Refactor and centralize virtualbg constant fetching
- Refactor and centralize virtualbg config fetching
- Organize virtualbg type definitions
- Remove added states in video-provider to prevent further bloat
- Remove added states in video-preview to prevent further bloat
- Lock virtual bg switching while video-preview itself is locked
- Add proper virtualbg error surfacing via toasts
- Refactor iOS availability detection to use centralized UA checker
- Avoid calling gUM when toggling virtualbgs on/off
- Make virtualbg video-list-item action a toggle instead of a
state-aware action
- Make virtualbg switching work in video-preview for cameras that are
already shared. Especially useful when there are multiple source
cameras, and will be important in the near future
- Add Derivative Work notices in files that are partially copied from
jitsi-meet
- Simplify track replacing in video-provider
- Split video-preview UI code for virtualbgs into a separate functional component
Shave off the number of calls in video-preview and video-provider by
using a stream storage
We don´t call an upfront gUM in video-preview anymore to lift the
fingerprinting barrier on device labels and IDs. Flow has been reversed:
upfront enumerate, load first preview, then check if previous
enumeration was obfuscated.
Add a stream storage in video-preview`s service to avoid re-fetching
them in video-providerj
Remove some unneeded video-preview container props
Improve some of video-preview`s error locales
Remove parts of a previous connection monitor.
To add some context (as far as my memory goes) to the multiple connection
monitor features the product has, `stats` (currently named `connection status`)
was introduced at the Flash client back in ~2016. @fcecagno and I did it
as a BigBlueButton's Summit activity. Our work was squashed into a single
commit in 92554f8b3e :).
I'm not sure about the whole story behind `network information` (the late
connection monitor added to the HTML5 client) but I assume it should work
as a collector for a bunch of different connectivity monitors. I remember
when it was introduced but I don't know why it wasn't adopted. My best guess
would be because of some performance issues the `user list` had back then.
To follow on why `connection status` replaced `network information` at the
HTML5 client, when I did the `multiple webcams` feature I had to refactor
a big chunk of the `video provider` (#8374). Something that wasn't really
helping there was the adaptation of `stats` that was made to show local
feedback for each webcam connection. Although this feature wasn't being
used anymore, `network information` did rely on that to build up data. With
this monitor gone I assumed it was my responsibility to provide an alternative
so I promoted Mconf's port of the Flash `stats` monitor to BigBlueButton's
HTML5 client (#8579).
Well, that's my perspective on how things went for those features. If
anyone would like to correct me on something or add something else on
that history I would appreciate to know.
Add the `camera` icon in the user list for whoever is sharing,
in order to improve the understanding of who is sharing the webcam.
It is possible to enable/disable this indication in the settings.yml
Video streams can be sorted by voice floor activity in the client according to FreeSWITCH´s floor events. The feature works together with pagination, essentially giving an Last-N like experience while not disrupting too much
Made video stream sorting extensible in a way. The sorting modes for pagination and unbounded can be configured in settings.yml and new sorting modes can be added to the stream sorting util under video-provider. Inline docs explain how to do that
Changed how the stream ID attribute from video-streams collection was passed to downstream components; we had an array map that was executed every change just to map stream to cameraId, which is bizarre. So I changed the cameraId usage in downstream components to be conformat with the collection attributes and shaved off the map where it wasnt needed
Add better selectors to video-list-item container´s VoiceUser fetch
New config called paginationThreshold defines classes of page sizes that depend on the number of participants of a meeting
The rationale is pretty much the same as the cameraQualityThresholds, but the thresholds are users here and the ceilings are the page sizes
Problem: setReconnectionTimeout was being called in the first candidate generation to set the negotiation/reconnection timeout up. That caused some browsers or specific scenarios (mainly envs without STUN) to establish the negotiation (playStart) before generating any useful out-of-band candidates (relay). That would cause the timeout to be set AFTER it is supposed to be cleared due to success (playStart), making the webcam drop after a while
So I moved the setReconnectionTimeout call to a safer spot: right after the first negotiation requisition goes out to bbb-webrtc-sfu
There's some scenarios that video errors triggers multiple toast notifications
that don't have any mapped defined message feedback so they all drop to the default
permission error. This leaves the impression that something is broken at the toast
container.
Since those messages don't bring up much information about the problem we can avoid sending
them until we don't have a more informative one to notify the user.
When multiple actions were bolted in the dropdown (mirror, focus), keys were getting duplicated with cameraId. Make them unique based on the action`s name
Recent fix to the stop all cameras behaviour exposed a bug where the local camera connecting state wasnt being cleared up when a camera timed out before being successfully shared
Video provider's service for local stream control was wrongly setting the disconnected
state when a multiple webcam user tried to stop a single cam. The `stopVideo` method
was inconsistent when called multiple times for the same `cameraId`.
Included a better testing scope for event dispatching and disconnected state handling.
BigBlueButton already allows mirroring the users own webcam as a global
setting set by administrators. Users have no way of choosing this on
their own.
This patch turns this functionality into a user setting for all webcams.
Every camera menu now gets a “mirror” entry.
The global setting is still used as a default value, keeping the current
behavior as it is to not confuse users.
This is a very simple patch improving the support for 16x9 cameras.
In mixed mode – if 4x3 and 16x9 cameras are present – everything looks
like it did before but if only 16x9 (or wider) cameras are present,
BigBlueButton will drop the letter boxes and show a 16x9 video
container.
If, at the time the video is shared, the user has a viewer role and
meta_hack-record-viewer-video is false this user won't have this video
stream recorded.
This adds bbb_record_video userdata that, when is set to false, signals
bbb-webrtc-sfu to avoid generating the stream recording assets for a
particular user.
By default, bbb_record_video is true.
- No more border radius in video containers, fullscreen buttons or user info span
Reduced the spacing between cameras to 1px
Replaced the loading spinners with a black background and the user name at the center
- Changed the color of the talking indicator to be the primary color with 0.7 opacity
Make the user name in the video container have opacity 1
Fix: make the webcam containers be 4:3 even while loading
If activity check was enabled in server, the activity check modal wasn't showed
to users and after a given time the user was disconnect, also fix the meeting-end
and error-screen messages, informing the user the reason why he was kicked.
After the code to mirror the video-preview component was added
I noticed that I improperly used the userId property of an undefined
argument as the video-preview does not have a user as a prop. This
commit decouples the logic to verify if the webcam should be mirrored
and whether the webcam belongs to that user. In the latter, we verify
if the user parameter exists and use it in a conditional, otherwise
we simply return true (applies with the video preview component),
where there is only one video stream.
Refactored STUN/TURN fetch to be done only once, when successful, per session and cache it in mem to avoid too many reqs. Current way is a bit dumb, this should increase reliability a bit more. The caching is configurable so folks who want to use very short lived TURN credentials can disable it
Add a fallback STUN config option to be used when the default STUN/TURN fetch fails
Clean the safari/no candidate generation pre flight check from 3rd party STUNs
Fix deadlock in audio join when STUN/TURN fetch failed
The peer object was being fetched only once in the ICE candidate callback, and it would fetch a placeholder empty object (sometimes) which would be kept in the callback closure till the end of the peer lifecycle. With that, the didSDPAnswered state variable which released the outbound ICE queue wouldnt be correctly read and the queue would never be flushed
The peer object was being fetched only once in the ICE candidate callback, and it would fetch a placeholder empty object (sometimes) which would be kept in the callback closure till the end of the peer lifecycle. With that, the didSDPAnswered state variable which released the outbound ICE queue wouldnt be correctly read and the queue would never be flushed
Also try to reconnect when ICE fails, a server-side error comes through or the WebRTC stack throws a tantrum, not only when the first connection fails.
