Jitsi has a module called Jibri used for recording. This sounds like a simple feature to add, but… Jitsi Cloud Recording Challenges On the surface, my requirements here are simple – record my audio and the audio and video of the Jitsi Meet session on demand and save the file locally. I often do demos and recording the session for others and future reference. However, one feature I really wanted to implement is recording. There are a billion posts/videos on how to set up Jitsi Meet, and I don’t have anything new or interesting to add to the technosphere there. I built a Jitsi Meet server a few months ago with the intention of updating my Build your own phone company with WebRTC and a weekend post. My result is located in this repo.Įditor’s note: see the comments section for some very relevant commentary and caveats from Jan-Ivar at Mozilla.
Read on for plenty of details and some reference code. That lead me down the road to discovering that: The feature wasn’t built in the way I wanted, so I set out on a hack to build something simple. I wanted to add local recording to my own Jitsi Meet instance.