Quickstart

This article describes how to use the On-Premise Recording SDK to record real-time audio and video.

Recording audio and video in a channel using the On-Premise Recording SDK works by adding a special user to the Video SDK channel. This special user captures the audio and video from the channel, transcodes it, and stores it on your Linux server.

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Integrate the On-Premise Recording SDK into your Linux server, not your client app. To record audio and video without deploying a Linux server, use Agora Cloud Recording.

Before you begin, complete the following steps and ensure your environment meets the required specifications:

• Create an Agora project in the Agora Console and obtain an App ID and a temporary token.
• Implement a Video SDK project that includes basic audio and video interaction.

Server hardware requirements:

• CPU: 8 cores, 1.8 GHz
• Memory: At least 4 GB (recommended)

Server software requirements:

• Operating system: Ubuntu 18.04 or later, or CentOS 7.0 or later
• CPU architecture: arm64 or x86-64
• glibc: version 2.18 or later
• gcc: version 4.8 or later

Network requirements:

• The server is connected to the public internet and has a public IP address.

• The server allows access to the following domains:

  • *.agora.io
  • *.agoralab.co

This section shows how to integrate the On-Premise Recording SDK into your app.

This section shows how to implement On-Premise recording in your app, step by step.

The following figure illustrates the essential steps:

Quickstart sequence diagram

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