JavaScript - Recorder

This web application extends the Hello World Tutorial, adding recording capabilities.

For the impatient: running this example

You’ll need to install Kurento Media Server before running this example. Read installation guide for further information.

Be sure to have installed Node.js and Bower in your system. In an Ubuntu machine, you can install both as follows:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | sudo bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
sudo npm install -g bower

Due to Same-origin policy, this demo has to be served by an HTTP server. A very simple way of doing this is by means of an HTTP Node.js server which can be installed using npm :

sudo npm install http-server -g

You will need to download the source code form GitHub. There are two implementations of this tutorial, but they are functionally the same. It’s just the internal implementation that changes. After checking out the code, you can start the web server.

git clone https://github.com/Kurento/kurento-tutorial-js.git
cd kurento-tutorial-js/kurento-recorder
git checkout 6.6.1
bower install
http-server -p 8443 -S -C keys/server.crt -K keys/server.key

git clone https://github.com/Kurento/kurento-tutorial-js.git
cd kurento-tutorial-js/kurento-hello-world-recorder-generator
git checkout 6.6.1
bower install
http-server -p 8443 -S -C keys/server.crt -K keys/server.key

Finally, access the application connecting to the URL https://localhost:8443/ through a WebRTC capable browser (Chrome, Firefox).

注解

These instructions work only if Kurento Media Server is up and running in the same machine as the tutorial. However, it is possible to connect to a remote KMS in other machine, simply adding the parameter ws_uri to the URL, as follows:

https://localhost:8443/index.html?ws_uri=wss://kms_host:kms_port/kurento

Notice that the Kurento Media Server must connected using a Secure WebSocket (i.e., the KMS URI starts with wss://). For this reason, the support for secure WebSocket must be enabled in the Kurento Media Server you are using to run this tutorial. For further information about securing applications, please visit the following page.

Understanding this example

In the first part of this demo, the local stream is sent to Kurento Media Server, which returns it back to the client and records to the same time. In order to implement this behavior we need to create a`Media Pipeline`:term: consisting of a WebRtcEndpoint and a RecorderEnpoint.

The second part of this demo shows how to play recorded media. To achieve this, we need to create a Media Pipeline composed by a WebRtcEndpoint and a PlayerEndpoint. The uri property of the player is the uri of the recorded file.

There are two implementations for this demo to be found in github:

注解

The snippets are based in demo with callbacks.

JavaScript Logic

This demo follows a Single Page Application architecture (SPA). The interface is the following HTML page: index.html. This web page links two Kurento JavaScript libraries:

  • kurento-client.js : Implementation of the Kurento JavaScript Client.
  • kurento-utils.js : Kurento utility library aimed to simplify the WebRTC management in the browser.

In addition, these two JavaScript libraries are also required:

  • Bootstrap : Web framework for developing responsive web sites.
  • jquery.js : Cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
  • adapter.js : WebRTC JavaScript utility library maintained by Google that abstracts away browser differences.
  • ekko-lightbox : Module for Bootstrap to open modal images, videos, and galleries.
  • demo-console : Custom JavaScript console.

The specific logic of this demo is coded in the following JavaScript page: index.js. In this file, there is a function which is called when the green button, labeled as Start in the GUI, is clicked.

var startRecordButton = document.getElementById("start");

startRecordButton.addEventListener("click", startRecording);

function startRecording() {
   var options = {
     localVideo: videoInput,
     remoteVideo: videoOutput
   };

   webRtcPeer = kurentoUtils.WebRtcPeer.WebRtcPeerSendrecv(options, function(error) {
      if(error) return onError(error)
      this.generateOffer(onOffer)
   });

   [...]
}

The function WebRtcPeer.WebRtcPeerSendrecv abstracts the WebRTC internal details (i.e. PeerConnection and getUserStream) and makes possible to start a full-duplex WebRTC communication, using the HTML video tag with id videoInput to show the video camera (local stream) and the video tag videoOutput to show the remote stream provided by the Kurento Media Server.

Inside this function, a call to generateOffer is performed. This function accepts a callback in which the SDP offer is received. In this callback we create an instance of the KurentoClient class that will manage communications with the Kurento Media Server. So, we need to provide the URI of its WebSocket endpoint. In this example, we assume it’s listening in port 8433 at the same host than the HTTP serving the application.

[...]

var args = getopts(location.search,
{
  default:
  {
    ws_uri: 'wss://' + location.hostname + ':8433/kurento',
    file_uri: 'file:///tmp/recorder_demo.webm', // file to be stored in media server
    ice_servers: undefined
  }
});

[...]

kurentoClient(args.ws_uri, function(error, client){
  [...]
};

Once we have an instance of kurentoClient, the following step is to create a Media Pipeline, as follows:

client.create("MediaPipeline", function(error, _pipeline){
   [...]
});

If everything works correctly, we have an instance of a media pipeline (variable pipeline in this example). With this instance, we are able to create Media Elements. In this example we just need a WebRtcEndpoint and a RecorderEndpoint. Then, these media elements are interconnected:

var elements =
   [
     {type: 'RecorderEndpoint', params: {uri : args.file_uri}},
     {type: 'WebRtcEndpoint', params: {}}
   ]

pipeline.create(elements, function(error, elements){
  if (error) return onError(error);

  var recorder = elements[0]
  var webRtc   = elements[1]

  setIceCandidateCallbacks(webRtcPeer, webRtc, onError)

  webRtc.processOffer(offer, function(error, answer) {
    if (error) return onError(error);

    console.log("offer");

    webRtc.gatherCandidates(onError);
    webRtcPeer.processAnswer(answer);
  });

  client.connect(webRtc, webRtc, recorder, function(error) {
    if (error) return onError(error);

    console.log("Connected");

    recorder.record(function(error) {
      if (error) return onError(error);

      console.log("record");
    });
  });
});

When stop button is clicked, the recoder element stops to record, and all elements are released.

stopRecordButton.addEventListener("click", function(event){
    recorder.stop();
    pipeline.release();
    webRtcPeer.dispose();
    videoInput.src = "";
    videoOutput.src = "";

    hideSpinner(videoInput, videoOutput);

    var playButton = document.getElementById('play');
    playButton.addEventListener('click', startPlaying);
  })

In the second part, after play button is clicked, we have an instance of a media pipeline (variable pipeline in this example). With this instance, we are able to create Media Elements. In this example we just need a WebRtcEndpoint and a PlayerEndpoint with uri option like path where the media was recorded. Then, these media elements are interconnected:

var options = {uri : args.file_uri}

pipeline.create("PlayerEndpoint", options, function(error, player) {
  if (error) return onError(error);

  player.on('EndOfStream', function(event){
    pipeline.release();
    videoPlayer.src = "";

    hideSpinner(videoPlayer);
  });

  player.connect(webRtc, function(error) {
    if (error) return onError(error);

    player.play(function(error) {
      if (error) return onError(error);
      console.log("Playing ...");
    });
  });
});

注解

The TURN and STUN servers to be used can be configured simple adding the parameter ice_servers to the application URL, as follows:

https://localhost:8443/index.html?ice_servers=[{"urls":"stun:stun1.example.net"},{"urls":"stun:stun2.example.net"}]
https://localhost:8443/index.html?ice_servers=[{"urls":"turn:turn.example.org","username":"user","credential":"myPassword"}]

Dependencies

Demo dependencies are located in file bower.json. Bower is used to collect them.

"dependencies": {
   "kurento-client": "6.6.0",
   "kurento-utils": "6.6.2"
}

注解

We are in active development. You can find the latest version of Kurento JavaScript Client at Bower.