bbb-player

Download public BigBlueButton recordings and play them offline. Playback is to a great extent based on the BigBlueButton frontend called bbb-playback.

Easy No-Install Playback in a Firefox browser with network connection:

If someone sent you a folder downloaded with bbb-player you can easily play the recording without installing anything.

0. Unzip the folder if it is zipped.
1. Open servefolder.dev in a desktop Firefox (ex. on Windows or macOS).
2. Click Browse....
3. Select the folder of the meeting (make sure the selected folder contains folders like static and styles).
4. Click Upload and confirm. Please note that the files will not be actually uploaded. Here is how it works.
5. Click the generated link and enjoy the recording.

Quickstart (recommended):

0. You must have Docker.

1. Use the folowing command where /path/to/your/folder/myBBBmeetings is an absolute path to a folder where you wish to download recordings.

docker run -d --rm --name bbb-player -p 5000:5000 -v /path/to/your/folder/myBBBmeetings:/app/downloadedMeetings andrazznidar/bbb-player

2. Open a modern web browser and download or play meetings on http://localhost:5000/.

3. When you are done you can use docker stop bbb-player to stop the container.

Detailed usage

Must have Python3.6 or later with pip. But not Python3.12 or newer.

1. Download and unzip this repo (or use git clone https://github.com/andrazznidar/bbb-player.git).
2. Change working directory of your system console to this repo.
3. Optionally create a virtual environment: python3 -m venv env and activate it: source ./env/bin/activate
4. Install requrements.txt using: pip install -r requirements.txt
5. Download a recoreded BBB meeting using: python bbb-player.py --download BBB_HTTPS_URL -n name_of_the_meeting where BBB_HTTPS_URL is your meeting url and name_of_the_meeting is your name for the meeting.

   Example: python bbb-player.py --download https://bbb.example.com/playback/presentation/2.0/playback.html?meetingId=70i9tyx7zbajoptzbav3ky1tuqxj3hgerup42jda-2177698461148 -n Favourite_meeting

6. Wait for download to complete.
7. Serve a single web page with all the meetings with python bbb-player.py -s
8. Open a modern web browser and play the downloaded meeting on http://localhost:5000/.
9. When done press CTRL+C in the system console to stop the local server. And deactivate to exit the virtual env if you enabled it.

Combining

If the downloaded BBB meeting was only using voice/webcam and video deskshare, you can combine webcam audio and deskshare video in one mkv video file.

1. Download the BBB meeting as specified in the first four steps of the Usage section in README.md.
2. Start the combining process using python3 bbb-player.py --combine meetingID where meetingID is your meetingID from the URL and is equal to a name of a folder inside of ./downloadedMeetings.

   Example: python3 bbb-player.py --combine 70i9tyx7zbajoptzbav3ky1tuqxj3hgerup42jda-2177698461148

3. Wait for the process to complete.
4. Your combined video file is located in the specific meeting folder ./downloadedMeetings/meetingID/meetingID.mkv. You can use this file as any other normal video file.

   Example: ./downloadedMeetings/70i9tyx7zbajoptzbav3ky1tuqxj3hgerup42jda-2177698461148/70i9tyx7zbajoptzbav3ky1tuqxj3hgerup42jda-2177698461148.mkv

Docker

This project can be run in Docker.

docker run -p 5000:5000 -v /path/to/your/folder/myBBBmeetings:/app/downloadedMeetings andrazznidar/bbb-player