Jibri

Jibri is an open-source server component of the Jitsi project that provides recording and live streaming capabilities for Jitsi Meet conferences. It was created to add backend support for capturing meetings without requiring participants to install or operate client-side recording tools. Jibri operates alongside other Jitsi components such as the Jitsi Videobridge (JVB) and the Jitsi Meet web interface, and it is designed to integrate with a typical Jitsi deployment.

The primary functions of Jibri are recording meetings to local storage or external storage and streaming live to RTMP endpoints such as YouTube Live, Facebook Live, Twitch, or other streaming services. A single Jibri instance can handle one active recording or streaming session at a time, and multiple instances can be deployed to scale for larger deployments. When activated, Jibri joins the ongoing conference as a participant, records the session’s media, and then ends the recording or streaming when the conference concludes or the session is stopped.

Technical operation and architecture: Jibri runs on a Linux host and uses a headless browser session (Chromium) to join the Jitsi Meet conference. It often employs a virtual display environment (such as Xvfb) to render the browser in a headless mode, with FFmpeg used to encode and save the recording or stream the live output. Jibri authenticates with the Jitsi Meet deployment via a dedicated account on the Prosody server and communicates through the XMPP protocol to monitor conference state and trigger actions.

Deployment and use: Jibri is typically deployed on a separate server from the main conferencing components and can be distributed via traditional package install methods or containerized deployments. It is part of the Jitsi ecosystem and is configured to work with the hosting environment’s recording and streaming policies.