There's an issue sometimes where when processing the audio from a
desktop sharing file, the STARTPTS value is invalid somehow, and this
results in bad timestamps in the output stream. Depending on the
selected codec/container combination, this might result in errors such
as spam of the message:
Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream
or simply a hang during processing.
Since we're already using aresample in async mode to correct timestamp
gaps, we can use "asetpts=N" here to simply set the audio frame pts
values to the sample number directly, giving proper monotonic timestamps
with no gaps.
Move the handling of chat events into the shared library so it can be
used by multiple recording formats.
The anonymization of names is based on the external user id, if
available, so users have a consistent name through the meeting. Note
that no effort is made to edit chat messages - if someone is mentioned
by name in a chat message, that will still be visible.
Default settings for anonymization can be controlled in
bigbluebutton.yml, and per-meeting overrides can be done using meta
parameters on the create call.
Disabling audio or video processing isn't really something that's part
of the working format (and at some point we might want to combine
audio+video processing together).
Move the setting of the '-an' and '-vn' options to where they're
required - as a detail of the EDL processing for video-only and
audio-only components of the output.
Honestly, the main reason for this change is that when testing alternate
working formats, I had accidentally dropped the '-vn' option from the
FFMPEG_WF_ARGS variable without noticing.
Generate a external_videos.json file at the recordings with an array of
played external videos url and timestamp.
This file will be published along with the other presentation format files
and can be used to display at the playback.
In the case where a meeting had recording enabled (record=true on create
call) but the presenter did not start recording during the meeting,
recording processing needs to be stopped after the meeting data is
archived, but before the recording formats are processed.
In the current 2.3 code, processing is halted after the "sanity" step.
However, the 2.2 code stopped processing after the "archive" step
instead. The main difference is that the scripts in the "post_archive"
directory (which are actually post_sanity scripts) did not get run on
non-recorded meetings for 2.2. This behaviour should be preserved for
compatibility.
I have added a special exception to trigger halting processing for a
recording job without causing the entire resque job to be marked as
failed. It only causes the `schedule_next_step` method to be skipped, so
following jobs won't get automatically run. This fixes#11877
This function is useful any place you want the matched recording marks
with timestamps rebased so 0 is the start of the meeting, I've used it
for chat analysis, for example.
There is no functional change here, it only exposes the extra function
for recording scripts or dropin/post scripts to use.
Since Meteor was split in multiple process and events started to be
filtered by instances, all Etherpad's Redis events were being discarded.
Etherpad has a Redis' publisher plugin that is unaware of BigBlueButton's
existence. All the communication between them is kept simple with minimal
of internal data exchange. The concept of distincts subscribers at Meteor's
side broke part of this simplicity and, now, Etherpad has to know which
instance must receive it's messages. To provide such information I decided
to include Meteor's instance as part of the pad's id. Should look like:
- [instanceId]padId for the shared notes
- [instanceId]padId_cc_(locale) for the closed captions
With those changes the pad id generation made at the recording scripts had to
be re-done because there is no instance id available. Pad id is now recorded at
akka-apps and queried while archiving the shared notes.
We still use the recording status files to externally monitor the
progress of the recordings. Let's keep these files for now until
we figure out a different way to track the status of the recording.
This incorporates only the audio desync related changes from #11626
* Add the aresample filter with async option to fill in timestamp gaps
* Use the libopus decoder for opus audio instead of ffmpeg's builtin
decoder
This gives the following advantages over the previous code:
* The ffmpeg input filters are loaded from a filter "script" file instead
of passed on the command line. This fixes some cases of recordings
failing to process because the ffmpeg command line generated for the
audio processing exceeded the max command line length limit. (Although
that only really happens due to BBB bugs...)
* Use absolute positions when trimming audio segments for cuts.
Previously segments were trimmed to the length of the segment, and the
results were concatenated. There's some possibility of accumulated
errors in the segment lengths causing audio desync over time. The new
code incrementally concatenates the segments, and cuts each segment
end based on the absolute time since the start of the meeting, to
avoid error accumulation.
use libopus decoder and encoder, its better than built-in ffmpeg/flac
don't mix screenshare audio with mics, was generating desync with bad audio segments, encode it together with video file (TODO: needs adjustments in playback)
When managing Etherpad's pads, Meteor makes API calls to initiate the closed captions
and shared notes modules. The pad id was being mapped to a shorter id than the meeting
id because of a Etherpad lenght limitation.
Changed to something less guessable.
The previous implementation of the BigBlueButton.execute method runs the
process with separate stdout and stderr streams. It first reads all of
the output from stdout, then reads all of the output from stderr.
This can cause a deadlock if the process writes a lot of data to stderr.
The IO buffer for stderr could fill, blocking progress. But since it
hasn't closed stdout, the ruby script is still waiting on a read to
stdout.
Switch to an execution method (using IO.popen) that allows combining
stdout and stderr into a single stream, eliminating the issue.
On my server 2.3 alpha, the method metadata_for(meeting_id) gives back {}
(empty Hash). Thus "return if meeting_metadata.nil?" does not occur.
Does @redis.hgetall give {} instead of nil, even though there is a comment in
node_modules/redis/lib/utils.js "hgetall converts its replies to an Object. If
the reply is empty, null is returned"???
On my server 2.3 alpha, the method metadata_for(meeting_id) gives back {}
(empty Hash). Thus "return if meeting_metadata.nil?" does not occur.
Does @redis.hgetall give {} instead of nil, even though there is a comment in
node_modules/redis/lib/utils.js "hgetall converts its replies to an Object. If
the reply is empty, null is returned"???
Update the list of invalid characters based on what the XML
specification permits and discourages.
Use the ruby string `scrub` method to remove invalid characters that
can't be expressed in the `tr` syntax, like unpaired surrogates and
UTF-8 prefix bytes.
The "originalFilename" tag is not present in "SharePresentationEvent", and thus presentation_filename would never be "default.pdf". As a consequence, the thumbnails are always generated from the default.pdf.
I've moved the workers code into the `lib` subdirectory with other library-ish
code; this puts it into the ruby load path used by most scripts so referencing
files is easier.
I've applied various style cleanups based on the rubocop config present.
The `events` processing step has been integrated as a new worker `EventsWorker`,
there is no longer a separate `events/events.rb` script. I've reworked the
`rap-starter.rb` script to check for the done files in both the events and
recorded status directories.
Changed only in the main class so journald is the default and in the
scripts related to the processes in resque. Internal scripts might still
be logging to files.
Found another case where the html5 client was passing through control
characters, in the original presentation name field.
Rather than play whack-a-mole with different fields which may eventually
get poorly sanitized user data, apply the control character filtering
to all properties.
Adjust the character range to do the following:
* Allow horizontal tab (0x09), it's not problematic.
* Disallow control characters in the range 0x1A-0x1F. Probably missed by accident.
It used to print:
Failed to download file: undefined local variable or method `respose' for BigBlueButton:Module
Did you mean? response
because the incorrect variable name was used in the error message.
There was no effect other than the message in the log, since the shared notes
couldn't be archived anyways, and the only thing the exception did was ...
prevent the shared notes from being archived.
FFmpeg has pretty good format autodetection even if the filename has the
'.txt' extension, so just rely on that. It'll even pull subtitles out of
video files - although I expect we'll have size limits so that doesn't
happen.
Sometimes when text is pasted into the whiteboard text tool from
external apps, it'll include control characters that mess up later
recording processing scripts.
Run the same cleanup as already used for chat messages on the whiteboard
text as well.
The cleanup has been adjusted to allow newline and tab characters. They
won't really cause issues in chat, and newlines (at a minimum) are
required for the whiteboard.
This is a workaround for #7356
BigBlueButton can sometimes write events out of order - this particularly
seems to affect the final RecordStatusEvent in a meeting which was ended
while recording was still running. This breaks the recording processing
scripts.
As a workaround, sort the events as they're being written into the events.xml
file. We have the following properties:
* The input data is already mostly sorted
* Items in the wrong position will be no more than a couple spots off from where
they should be
* We should not change the relative order of events with the same timestamp.
The best algorithm to use here is a simple insertion sort. When adding each new
event to the XML structure, it scans backwards through existing events until it
finds the correct position.
For #6035
At some point, BigBlueButton switched from using `"` to `'` in the link tags in
chat messages, which caused the regular expression that was supposed to remove
the `event:` prefix to not match.
I've replaced the error-prone regular expression with an actual HTML parser,
using the "Loofah" HTML transformation/sanitization library based on Nokogiri.
I've removed the code that detected unlinked URLs, since it was broken - and
not needed: current BigBlueButton versions do the link detection in the client.
If someone reprocesses a really old BBB recording with these scripts, URLs in
chat might not be linked in the result. But they wouldn't have been linked in the
client in the original meeting either, so I figure that's ok.
Fixes#6475
In some cases, ffmpeg will be able to read the file, but the video itself
can't be decoded (missing/corrupt stream headers, for example). In this case,
some of the properties on the stream object will be nil.
Make sure that pix_fmt is present in the probed info, since that's a required
property.
Issue #6338
It looks like there was a logic error in the code that was causing it
to break out of the event deletion loop early when deleting events for
the last (or only) segment in a recording. (In this case, last_index
is -1, so i >= last_index is always true).
The trim_events_for call was always succeeding, so the events were
being removed from the event list (meeting:{ID}:recordings key) even
though the events themselves hadn't been deleted in the loop.
I've moved the trim_events_for call to below the event deletion loop
to ensure that if the archive script is interrupted, the events list
will contain all not-yet-deleted events.
The archive_dir can by the raw recording directory in some recording
formats - including, hopefully, presentation at some point (to avoid the
extra copy)
The previous calculation used the video size in pixels, which might lead
to stretched/squashed videos in rare cases where the video has non-square
pixels. The new calculation is correct for all video sizes.
