[FFmpeg-user] Converting zoom recordings

[Michael Glenn Williams]

Carl,

On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 9:30 AM Carl Zwanzig <cpz at tuunq.com> wrote:

> On 5/25/2020 7:33 AM, Francois Visagie wrote:
> > It isn't clear why you're concerned with intermediate files, but Zoom has
> > a "compatibility" setting for final output.
> When I checked a few days, the only output is still mp4. There is an
> option
> for "Optimize for 3rd party video editor", no idea what it actually does,
> might do some tests on that later in the week.
>

We use AWS MediaConvert on the zoom recordings with good success.
If it would be of any help I can get you our re-encoding job settings for
reference.
Primarily we convert to a constant frame rate, AAC codec and H.264 codec at
reasonable bitrates.