[Freeswitch-users] Post-processing conference recording

Thu Apr 20 19:27:17 MSD 2017

The CDR generates when the conference is destroyed.  Its like XML cdr but
conference specific.

https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/Conference+CDR

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 9:40 AM, Chad Phillips <chad at apartmentlines.com>
wrote:

> 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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