Converting Zoom Recordings

Tried to convert our Christmas Celebration (from 25 Dec 2021) recording, and it didn’t seem to work. The recording showed up in 2 files, double_click_to_convert_01.zoom (at 1.7GB), and double_click_to_convert_02.zoom (at 1.1MB). Tried running zTscoder.exe manually, and nothing happens (the usual “Zoom – Converting the meeting recording” window didn’t pop up). Finally, noticed that the drive where the files were in had only 22GB free, so copied them over to a much bigger drive, and this time, all’s good. The popup appeared, and convertion is taking place.

It’s been about half-hour now, and it’s at 33%, so we’re looking at about 1.5hr for the whole 1.7GB.

So the conclusion is that the software needs lots of diskspace to do the conversion, certainly more than 22GB for a 2GB file.

2022-01-03 18:23

Update: it was finally done at 18:23, resulting in a 3.9GB mp4 file.

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