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General purpose screen recorders are suitable for end users who only need a recording file, but they are not designed to be part of meeting capture infrastructure.
Meeting capture infrastructure needs to capture video, separate microphone and system audio streams, gather meeting context, and automatically record meetings. Screen recording tools do not meet these requirements, so they are insufficient as infrastructure for a meeting recorder.
Individuals can use OBS Studio to record meetings locally, but OBS Studio cannot be used as a solution for programmatic meeting capture.
QuickTime Player can record your screen and microphone on a Mac, but it does not natively capture system audio on most macOS versions. Learn why that makes it unsuitable for meeting recording and what to use instead.
Loom is a good option for screen recording and asynchronous video messages, but it is not designed for programmatically recording meetings. Here's where it falls short and what to use instead.
We'll go over 3 ways to record Zoom meetings without a bot: Zoom's native RTMS and Cloud Recording APIs, OS-level capture with ScreenCaptureKit and WASAPI, or a desktop recording SDK. Here's how they compare.