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Adobe Connect Recordings

Sneak Peak into Recording Structure Presented by Anjali Sharma


Index

Recording

Storage structure of recording

Indexstream And Mainstream

Event Managers in Mainstream & Indexstream

Nomenclature of Meeting Pods

Some issues reported for Recordings

Content References in Recording

Download Techniques


Recording

What is a recording ?

• Before we can start with where the information for a meeting and recording is saved we should know what a recording is.

• A recording in connect is a combination of a bunch of flvs files along with there respective xmls.

• A recording in connect is host oriented i.e. all events for recording are governed by the host like start, pause, resume, stop

• Recording is created in a Generic Participant View (that is everything visible to participant gets recorded even if there is no participant in a meeting)

• A recording consist of video and audio

• Audio further consist of 3 types


Recording Contd….

UV (universal voice) is combination of Telephony and Microphone of Pc

Mp3 is pure Telephony

Camera VoIP is Microphone only


View of a Meeting Recording in process


Same meeting being played as Recording


Storage Structure of Recording on Hosted Server

o Cache Storage

Account_ID/Sco_ID/Folder (Output, Input, Metadata)

o Connect runs an Asset Install Process which converts input folder to output folder then output folder is written to shared storage(NAS) after zipping it and removing the zip extension.

o To download this file you need to rename it with the extension.

o Metadata contains the version information of connect.

o NAS Storage

Account_ID/Sco_ID/Output


Information Stored in Indexstream & Mainstream file


Indexstream

▪ Contains the time for all events when they happened

▪ Does not contain per frame record for play event


Mainstream

▪ Contains the data per event

▪ Contains the per frame record of the play event


Event Managers in Mainstream & Indexstream

● Layout manager

● Pod manager

● User manager

● Stream manager


Layout Manager It contains the structure information of the layout used, with the position of the all the pod

whether visible or not using co-ordinates (depth, height, length).

It contains pod manager


Pod Manager

It contains the reference of all the pods and the reference data in the pod


Pod Manager Contd..


User Manager

It contains the list of users with there respective roles and how are they connected

It tells whether a user is a viewer or the owner

It also tells whether user is connected through a pc or phone

It tells us whether a user is registered or guest


Screen Shot of User Manager


Stream Manager

It contains the play event which further consists of:

Stream Added

Play Stream

Stream Removed

Stop Stream

These Streams can be for CameraVoIP, UV and ScreenShare


Screen Shot of Stream Manager


Screen Shot of Stream Manager Contd..


Recording Pause Event Stored in Indexstream


Recording Resume Event Stored in Indexstream


Nomenclature of Meeting Pods in Mainstream & Indexstream

Ftpeoplelist - Attendee Pod

FTtitle - Note Pod

Ftstage, CameraVoip – Video Pod

Ftcontent – Share Pod

FtfileShare – File Share Pod

Ftquestion – Poll Pod

qanda – Q&A Pod


Screenshot..


Some issues reported for Recordings

1. Customer says he recorded meeting for x min but recording is just for a few minutes. Why ?

A possible reason- Customer paused the recording at some point, didn’t resume it afterwards.

2. Customer not able to make a recording offline , error “not found”. Why?

A possible reason- Recording files not available on NAS

3. Customer says meeting audio and video are out of sync. Why?

A possible reason- Due to Gaps and backward timestamps


Content References in Recording

▪ There are two Sco-id/URLcreated for same content, either can be used for downloading Content

▪ Recording creates a reference Sco-id/URL for the actual Sco-id/URL created while uploading the content through UI.


Download Techniques

Paste this URL in address bar {URLof recording}/output/anyname.zip?download.zip Save this zip file as the desired directory. Extract Zip to use files within it.

How to Download a recording

How to Download source file of a content

Paste this URL in address bar {URLof content}/source/anyname.zip?download.zip Save this zip file as the desired directory. Extract Zip to use files within it. How to Download output/published file of a content

Paste this URL in address bar {URLof content}/output/anyname.zip?download.zip Save this zip file as the desired directory. Extract Zip to use files within it.

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