In-depth guides covering desktop recording workflows and advice for developers.
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.
Capturing the user's microphone isn't as simple as it seems. Learn how to handle device switching and keep recordings running without dropping audio.
Echo cancellation is one of the first hard problems you'll hit when building a desktop recording app. Here's why it happens and how to avoid building the infrastructure yourself.
If you're building a desktop meeting recorder, one of the first technical decisions is how to capture audio from the user's computer. We compare system audio, app audio, and why capturing the right source matters.
Mute detection is harder than it looks for a desktop recorder. We break down the reasons why and suggest an alternative that has mute detection out of the box.
Understand how long it will take to build a desktop recorder and how much effort it will take for your team depending on the method you choose
Getting a desktop recorder that works on your own computer is only a small part of the work you need to do to get it ready for production. Here are a few of the edge cases you need to consider.
Understand how to handle multilingual audio and code-switching in desktop recording pipelines, from capture quality to provider selection.
Speaker diarization is the process of working out who spoke when, and attaching that answer to segments of a transcript. Here's why it's important for desktop recording.
These three technologies may seem similar, but none of them produce the same data. Meeting recording captures a meeting between people, including what each person said and what was shown in the meeting window. Screen recording simply captures whatever is on a display. Session replay captures a stream of events describing what happened inside one user's browser, with no video involved at all.
Desktop recording is a method of capturing meetings from the user's own device rather than with a bot inside the call or from the meeting platform's servers.
A bot-free meeting recorder allows you to capture a call directly from your computer, so nothing joins the meeting as a participant.