Monday, September 12, 2011

BigBlueButton 0.8-beta released!

The BigBlueButton development team is pleased to announce the BETA RELEASE of BigBlueButton 0.8. This release provides:
  • Recording of sessions 
  • Playback of recordings in HTML 5 
  • Improved Audio (lower latency) 
  • Integration with Matterhorn (open source lecture capture management)

For the full details, see release notes. For installation on Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit or 64-bit server, see installation instructions.

We've also put together a YouTube video demonstration how to install this beta release.

Enjoy!



10 comments:

Tiho Vlahovski said...

I have it already installed in a test environment. So far there are few minor problems during install process, GUI and API.
First impression is that it is working much faster compared to 0.71a
About the recording - HTML player is not supporting "seek" so once you start the recorded stream you can only pause it.
Still testing...

Fred Dixon said...

> So far there are few minor problems during install process, GUI and API.

Hi Tiho,

Can you post any problems you encountered to http://groups.google.com/group/bigbluebutton-setup/topics?gvc=2. We'd like to know the details so we can fix.

> HTML player is not supporting "seek"

You should be able to seek back and forth on the timeline using Firefox and Chrome. Support for IE and Safari are coming in an update to the beta next week.

Regards,... Fred

Frankie said...

I notice desktop sharing has been removed. Will this feature return?

Tiho Vlahovski said...

Hi Frankie,
What do you mean "removed"?
It is still there. It is slow the first time (Java needs to load) but it is there and working.

Cheers,
-Tiho

Fred Dixon said...

Only the presenter will see the desktop sharing icon.

Make yourself presenter first, then you should be able to share your desktop.

Regards,... Fred

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Tomek said...

I have it already installed on my server. In my testing environment i had problem with voice. As a client I use laptop with integrated microphone and then with external. In both cases there was no voice at all.
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Fred Dixon said...

Hi Tomek,

Can you post to bigbluebutton-setup at http://groups.google.com/group/bigbluebutton-setup/topics?gvc=2.

We'll help you there.

Sounevil said...

When will the joomla integration for BBB 0.8 be available?

Fred Dixon said...

> When will the joomla integration for BBB 0.8 be available?

It will available sometime after the release of 0.8.

We still have work ahead of us to finish 0.8.

Regards,... Fred