Thanks for your quick reply, Maxim! Do you mean that I should reduce the screen reso (does this help?) or does the screen sharing quality dropdown also affect recording quality?
I'd like to avoid changing the code if possible. Then I'll rather try to find more hard disk space. :) Cheers, Mikael On Dec 3, 2012 7:42 PM, "Maxim Solodovnik" <solomax...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm afraid you need you need to > 1) reduce recording/screensharing quality > or > 2) modify OM code and add additional ffmeg parameters > > > On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Mikael Kurula <alcar...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> First of all thanks for a great product! I installed OpenMeetings earlier >> in the week, and after some testing, I am greatly impressed. I hope to be >> able to use OM for my teaching instead of the unreliable proprietary >> software we currently use. I would be recording over 4h of teaching every >> week and I am a bit concerned over how much disk space this would require. >> >> I just made a test with my laptop's standard resolution 1280x800 with >> webcam at 30 fps. It seems 4 hours of this video would consume about 5/4 >> GiB of disk space. I find this quite much, and on the other hand I would >> not mind reducing the quality of the recordings a bit. (It is intended that >> the students participate live, not that they study archived recordings.) Is >> it somehow possible to tell ffmpeg to make a smaller-resolution video with >> higher compression to save space? >> >> Friendly greetings, >> Mikael > > > > > -- > WBR > Maxim aka solomax >
