Overview

Session recordings let you capture a record of the entire session including video, voice and HQ Audio streams. The recordings are stored locally on your computer and consist of two separate files:

• A .webm file containing video and voice recordings
• A .wav file containing the stereo HQ Audio recording

For more information on the files created please refer to the About the Recorded Files section at the end of this article.

The files are stored to destinations determined by two separate system dialog windows. The video and voice recording dialog occurs immediately, at the start of the recording, and the HQ Audio file destination dialog is displayed after recording stops.

Only the session host has the ability to initiate a recording and all guests will receive a notification that recording has begun.

Starting a Recording 

Click on the Record icon in the bottom toolbar to begin the recording. A notification will appear alerting you to the fact that recording has started and reminding you to select a destination directory for the video and voice .webm file when prompted.

Stopping a Recording 

Click the Record icon again to stop recording. All session participants will receive a notification that recording has stopped and a system dialog will appear asking for a destination directory to store the HQ Audio.wav file.

About the Recorded Files

What Is WebM?

WebM, a free media format developed by Google in 2010, is suitable for modern web use and supports both commercial and non-commercial applications. It integrates audio-compression technologies like Opus and Vorbis, and video-compression technologies like VP8 and VP.

WebM is an alternative to the patented MPEG4 and H. 264 standards. WebM files are smaller than MP4 files, but MP4 is more compatible across platforms and devices. MP4 is also supported by most video players.

You can play WebM files using the following applications:

• Web browsers, such as Chrome, Brave, Edge, Opera, and Firefox
• Other browsers like Safari require third-party plugins
• Later versions of Android
• Microsoft Windows Media Player 2022
• Third party video player apps like VLC and Winamp
  
  

WAV Files

Originally developed by Microsoft and IBM, WAV (or WAVE) remains one of the oldest audio encoding formats currently in use. Ideal for playing audio on personal computers, WAV is widely accepted as the preferred format for archival digital audio due to its uncompressed nature, resulting in sizeable file sizes. There are several varieties of wav file formats but all of them share the basics like uncompressed PCM encoding.