[Freeswitch-users] Post-processing conference recording

[Chad Phillips]

Brian, do the CDRs get generated after the recording files are closed?

Oleg, I think with that approach you might run into race conditions if you
stopped then started a recording, but not sure.

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Oleg Stolyar <olegstolyar at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just have my cron job look for recording files that are at least 1 min
> old.
> This way I know I am not moving active files.  In my case, I can live with
> a 1-2 minute delay.
>
> Also, in this case I don't need any FS events to tell me whether the
> conference ended or marker files.
>
> Are there any issues with this approach that I am missing?
>
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 6:56 AM, Brian West <brian at freeswitch.org> wrote:
>
>> You have conference-destroy events, or you can turn on conference CDRs
>> then consume those and process the recordings from that data.
>>
>> /b
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 4:39 PM, Chad Phillips <chad at apartmentlines.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Robert,
>>>
>>> I kept it simple b/c my needs are simple — the marker file is an empty
>>> file with the filename matching the conference name. Then all of my
>>> conference recordings have the filename format [conf name]_[uuid].mp4
>>>
>>> From there it’s pretty trivial to perform the matching. I think this
>>> method would fall down if I were recording multiple sequential files in the
>>> same conference, but I don’t ever do that. The next level would be also
>>> including the uuid in the marker filename, but I didn’t feel like doing the
>>> work to pass it down into the conference event for matching purposes.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Mundkowsky, Robert <
>>> rmundkowsky at ets.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If you have multiple conferences, is there a way to tell which file is
>>>> for which conference?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Robert
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *From:* freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:
>>>> freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org] *On Behalf Of *Chad
>>>> Phillips
>>>> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 18, 2017 11:25 AM
>>>> *To:* FreeSWITCH Users Help <freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>
>>>> *Subject:* Re: [Freeswitch-users] Post-processing conference recording
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thought I'd follow up on this with my final implementation, which was a
>>>> bit different than my original plan. It's certainly not as straightforward
>>>> or elegant as I'd hoped, but it works :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The main sticky point is dealing with the Linux file permissions --
>>>> FreeSWITCH by default saves the recordings under the user and group it's
>>>> running as, with 660 perms. Since the webserver and the node process both
>>>> run under separate users as well, it made more sense to have the root user
>>>> deal with the file manipulation. So...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 1. Create a special directory to hold 'marker files', writeable by the
>>>> FreeSWITCH user
>>>>
>>>> 2. Node process listens for the 'conference-destroy' event (this
>>>> doesn't seem to be a well-documented event, but it exists!)
>>>>
>>>> 3. Since the file cleanup in mod_conference happens after the
>>>> conference-destroy event, wait a small amount of time after receiving the
>>>> event
>>>>
>>>> 4. Drop a marker file in the marker file directory
>>>>
>>>> 5. Run a periodic root cron job that inspects the marker file directory
>>>> for new files, and process the ended recordings as necessary
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This allows the cron idea offered by Sebastian without the concern
>>>> about untimely moving of a file raised by Giovanni.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 2:07 AM, Giovanni Maruzzelli <gmaruzz at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Provided you're using Unix you can set up a simple cron job at an
>>>> interval of your choice that checks for *.mp4 files in your recordings
>>>> directory and in case it finds some moves them over to your web
>>>> directory with the permissions you want.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nope, you'll never be sure you are not moving files FreeSWITCH is
>>>> actively writing to (eg, recording not yet ended).
>>>>
>>>> I would go your way Chad, with a slight old-skool variation like doing
>>>> that in a perl while loop (are that javascript thingies actually working?
>>>> ;) )
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>
>>>> Giovanni Maruzzelli
>>>> OpenTelecom.IT
>>>> cell: +39 347 266 56 18
>>>>
>>>>
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