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AdobeConnect To .mkv

Introduction

This app helps exporting AdobeConnect videos in situations like when you can just watch the past videos and you can't download it, e.g: University Of Tehran!

How to use

1. Download AdobeConnect zip output using method in this link:

   • Log into your Adobe Connect account
   • Click on Meetings > My Meetings
   • Click on the link for the recording
   • Click the “Recordings” link (right-side of screen)
   • Click the link in the “Name” column
   • Copy the “URL for Viewing” – Example, http://mycompany.adobeconnect.com/p12345678/
   • Paste it into a new browser tab then add the following to the end of the URL: output/filename.zip?download=zip
   • Your URL should look similar to this example, http://mycompany.adobeconnect.com/p12345678/output/filename.zip?download=zip
   • Unzip the downloaded zip file

   This will give you a folder full of .flv and .xml files.

2. Install ffmpeg:

   Ubuntu:

   apt install ffmpeg
   

3. Download and run app:

   ./AdobeCollect <UnzippedfolderPath>
   

   Example: We assume you have unzipped the downloaded file to database_session_1 folder and so database_session_1 folder contains some flv and xml files:

   ./AdobeCollect database_session_1
   

   As soon as you run this command AdobeCollect will start to convert videos using ffmpeg and output will be in database_session_1/Final.mkv after some time.

Sample Result

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How it works

In the default format of downloaded zip, there is 1 flv for each part, for example: one flv for webcam of teacher, one for shared screens, one for when each microphone opens, etc.

The downloaded zip file contains some XML files that includes metadata of flv files, like when each file should start, how long it is, is it just audio or it has video, .... (And even the presenter exact OS version!!!)

We use ffmpeg to merge all of them together and create a single mkv file.

Performance

On my own tests it converted an hour of video + presentation + bunch of questioning(microphone openings) in 14 minutes using 2 cores of an old potato i5 cpu 🥔 !

I should work on it's performance more but now it's good and so much better than recording the screen!

I hope you enjoy it, Give it ⭐ if you like it