to reduce size you can 1) change the area recorded 2) change the quality in the applet (the worst is 10fps + 3/8 picture size)
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:29 AM, Mikael Kurula <alcar...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> > -- WBR Maxim aka solomax
