Join the 83K+ other members in the Zoom Community! Login with your Zoom account credentials and start collaborating. Actually, you can create your own M3U playlist with common media players. This is an approximation, since the resolution and types of video or screen sharing content can affect the amount of storage used. m3u extension is an audio playlist file that points to the actual audio files in a playlist on your computer or from a website. Note: Recording screen sharing uses about 20MB of storage per hour while recording video uses about 200MB of storage an hour. If recording separate audio tracks for each participant (local recording only), each participant's audio track will be named audio.m4a by default.

VTT: Text file that contains the audio transcription for the cloud recording.

CC.VTT: Text file that contains closed captioning for the cloud recording.

A chat file saved locally will include chat messages sent to everyone and any chat messages sent to/from the participant who saves the chat. Create an M3U file using a text editor: Step 1. Below we have enlisted various ways of creating an M3U file.

This file contains in-meeting chat messages that were saved. An M3U file can be created using the text editor or by simply saving the playlist file in M3U format using programs like iTunes, VLC, and others.

TXT: Text file that is named chat.txt by default.

The file is saved with the 'm3u8' extension if the text is UTF-8 encoded.

M3U: Playlist file to play all individual MP4 files (Windows only) that is named playback.m3u by default. An M3U file is a plain text file that specifies the locations of one or more media files.

M4A: Audio-only file that is named audio.m4a by default.

MP4: Audio/Video file that is named video.mp4 by default.

How to understand Zoom recording file formatsĪfter you have found your local recordings or viewed your cloud recordings on the web portal, you will see some of the following file formats: The following attributes are also supported in M3U playlists: tvg-id - channel code from EPG code table. Versions prior to 3.5 are created using individual MP4 files and are multi-resolution with variable frame rate format. Using M3U playlist format (.m3u file extension). Note: With version 3.5 and above, the MP4 recording is a single-resolution with fixed frame rate format to ensure better compatibility with media players. Zoom local recordings and cloud recordings save in MP4, M4A, M3U, TXT, CC.VTT, and VTT formats.

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