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Use Cases

Cases

Online education

In one-to-one or one-to-many small classes, you can record streams in multiple dimensions for different students:

• For one single student, you can record the student's separate data stream to compose relevant data. In this way, you can record the highlights of each student and push them to their parents.
• You can directly record the data in the room and generate videos that students can play back and watch repeatedly for learning.
• In order to facilitate repeated watches, redundant data can be removed during recording.

Customer service center

• In smart customer service scenarios, you can record the separate data streams of users and combine the data with recognition APIs to implement information verification during card application and smart account opening.
• You can record the speeches of the customer service representatives and users separately and automatically recognize keywords, so as to evaluate the service quality and iteratively train the smart customer service.
• You can save and archive the data generated in the course of service.

Social networking

• You can record only the desired video streams in the room for data retention, which helps reduce the costs of storage and stream mix.
• You can record the specified data in the room, call moderation APIs for content moderation, and set different moderation standards for different users.
• You can directly generate segment files based on live streams.

Business process

This document describes how to use API Gateway and SCF to record a single anchor's audio/video stream in a TRTC room and upload the recording file to COS for storage. This solution provides out-of-the-box, flexible, convenient, and programmable live recording capabilities. SCF offers 512 MB of memory by default for recording file storage. If you need more storage space, you can choose to use the mount capability of CFS. The workflow is as shown below:

The parameters for calling APIs are as follows:

// The parameters involved in CosConfig are as follows:

Note：

• UserId is the specified user ID. Idempotency is not guaranteed for multiple requests to API Gateway.
• If SecretId and SecretKey are not configured in CosConfig, the function will use the permission of the execution role SCF_ExecuteRole when accessing COS.

Trigger conditions for stopping recording:

• The TRTC room is terminated. When there is no anchor in the TRTC room for more than 300s, the room will be automatically terminated.
• The user removal API is actively called to kick the recorded user out of the room.
• To stop recording for users with RoomId, you need to call the RemoveUser API.
• To stop recording for users with StrRoomId, you need to call the RemoveUserByStrRoomId API.

After recording is stopped, the data returned by the function is as follows:

Note：

If callback is configured, after the stop, SCF will pass the returned data to the callback address in POST method.

Each item in the Files array is a JSON object as follows:

Directions

Creating function

1. Log in to the SCF console and select Function Service on the left sidebar.
2. At the top of the Function Service page, select the Guangzhou region and click Create to enter the function creating page and configure the function as shown below:
   
   • Creation method: select Template.
   • Fuzzy search: enter "TRTC", search, and select the Single audio/video stream recording template.
     Click Learn More in the template to view relevant information in the Template Details pop-up window, which can be downloaded.
3. Click Next and configure the related information as shown below:
   
   • Function Name: the function name is automatically generated by default.
   • Async Execution: select the checkbox to enable the async execution. When it's enabled, the function will respond to the event in async execution mode. The event goes to async execution status after being invoked without waiting for the processing result.
   • Status Trace: select the checkbox to enable the status trace. When it's enabled, it will keep the logs of real-time status of response for async function events. You can query and stop the event and check the related statistics. Data of event status will be retained for three days.
   • Execution Timeout Period: it can be modified as needed.
   • Execution Role: SCF_ExecuteRole is used as the execution role by default, which grants the access permissions of QcloudCOSFullAccess and QcloudCFSFullAccess.
4. Configure an API Gateway trigger. An API service is created by default and the integration response is disabled. You can customize the trigger, but please ensure that the integration response is disabled as shown below:
   
5. Click Complete.
6. If you need to use the mount capability of CFS, as CFS can only be accessed in VPC, you should use the VPC of CFS as the VPC of the function as shown below:
   

   Note：

   To enable CFS, you need to set the environment variable CFS_PATH to a local directory, such as /mnt/audio/.

Creating TRTC application

1. Log in to the TRTC console and select Development Assistance > Demo Quick Run on the left sidebar.
2. Enter the demo name and click Create. You can choose a template for test run according to your client, such as the demo for desktop browser.
   

Testing function

1. Create a TRTC application and enter the application.
2. Use Postman to construct an HTTP request, where roomId is the room ID of the created TRTC application, and userId is the ID of another random user (which must be unique). Below is the sample code:

   {
     "SdkAppId": 1400000000, 
     "RoomId": 43474, 
     "UserId": "user_55952145", 
     "Mode": "02", 
     "UserSig": "eJwtzNEKgkAUBNB-2efQ3e3eUqG3tMCKJJEIIxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxhvmweLWzGlUxj0mLs1GXKVf3mgrq*GFUdUR0UQrAYWDyW6Y15cwTwDm4UkxF36iXpkq1joiSc9xxxxxxxxxxxxx-S*CZeOk9sHfnEhCwlUW*fE4oWusw3dULlJ7HoSJ2e6d9fM8Y98fxUAzWA__", 
     "CosConfig": {
         "Region": "ap-shanghai", 
         "Bucket": "test-123456789", 
         "Path": "/trtc"
      }
   }
   

   See the figure below:
   
3. After the request is sent, an async function response "Async run task submitted" will be received. The RequestId of this function will be returned through x-scf-reqid in the HTTP header as shown below:
   
4. On the Function Service page in the SCF console, click the name of the function created in the Creating function step above to enter the function details page.
5. Select the Log Query tab on the function details page to view the printed recording log information as shown below:
   
6. Log in to the TRTC console and click the room ID on the Monitoring Dashboard page to view all users in the room, one of whom is the recorded user
7. To stop recording, you can call the RemoveUser or RemoveUserByStrRoomId API to move the user out of the room.