Store recording as VP8 in webm rather than Theora in mkv

Chromium does not seem to play all Theora files (might be related to timestamp problems), while VP8 is supported in both Firefox and Chromium. Similarly Firefox can not play Matroska containers, while webm is supported in both Firefox and Chromium. Signed-off-by: Daniel Calviño Sánchez <danxuliu@gmail.com>
nextcloud · Feb 5, 2023 · e240bcd · e240bcd
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diff --git a/lib/Service/RecordingService.php b/lib/Service/RecordingService.php
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ class RecordingService {
 	public const DEFAULT_ALLOWED_RECORDING_FORMATS = [
 		'audio/ogg' => ['ogg'],
 		'video/ogg' => ['ogv'],
+		'video/webm' => ['webm'],
 		'video/x-matroska' => ['mkv'],
 	];
 

diff --git a/recording/src/nextcloud/talk/recording/Service.py b/recording/src/nextcloud/talk/recording/Service.py
@@ -54,11 +54,11 @@ def getRecorderArgs(status, displayId, audioSinkIndex, width, height, extensionl
     ffmpegInputAudio = ['-f', 'pulse', '-i', audioSinkIndex]
     ffmpegInputVideo = ['-f', 'x11grab', '-draw_mouse', '0', '-video_size', f'{width}x{height}', '-i', displayId]
     ffmpegOutputAudio = ['-c:a', 'libopus']
-    ffmpegOutputVideo = ['-c:v', 'libtheora', '-q:v', '7']
+    ffmpegOutputVideo = ['-c:v', 'libvpx', '-quality:v', 'realtime']
 
     extension = '.ogg'
     if status == RECORDING_STATUS_AUDIO_AND_VIDEO:
-        extension = '.mkv'
+        extension = '.webm'
 
     outputFileName = extensionlessOutputFileName + extension