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Meeting recordings are available in Google Apps Script.

Autosharing can be easily solved by simple Google Apps Script. I scan my personal calendar and share recording to Slack channel when I detect group meeting with recording available. Mail me, so I can arrange something for you.

Autorecording - yeah, this is missing. There is paid Chrome Extension which do that, but I have never tested it.



I record all meetings locally regardless of the tool with OBS. But that is only useful to me as I don't ask for authorization and not sharing them. It is only because I know my mind will sometimes drift and I want to be able to replay part of the meeting.

Having said that, so many people don't record meeting I or someone else can't attend. This is annoying. It should be automatized so that if you miss part or all of a meeting you can still watch the record as long as you were invited.


That's a great idea to record locally. Do you keep a deep history or wipe after 30/90/365 days? Do you need any special hardware for it?

My memory is not great. I'm starting to have more calls with clients and it would be great to have a record rather than trying to take notes and conduct a conversation at the same time.

> It should be automatized so that if you miss part or all of a meeting you can still watch the record as long as you were invited

People generally don't like knowing that everything they say is being recorded


> That's a great idea to record locally. Do you keep a deep history or wipe after 30/90/365 days? Do you need any special hardware for it?

If there is anything I want to keep, I will usually take notes but sometimes I cut the small part I need and store it in a special folder. I just wipe once in a while the main "obs" directory, every other week or so. if I haven't felt the need to play back a video, I doubt it will in the future so I don't keep a lot of retention, it is pretty much only to help me when I am getting distracted or multitasking during a meeting. Most of the time when I feel the need to play back the video, it is immediately after the meeting because I know something important had been said but wasn't 100% focused and want to be sure I haven't missed anything.

But I don't have lots of meeting, a handful a week usually. I don't need special hardware, obs seems to be heavily multithreaded. It might hurt the battery usage if I am not plugged but no core is going very high in term of cpu and I don't feel any slowness. I am recording in the 2500/160kbps veryfast(medium CPU usage, standard quality) setting at 1080p, it takes like 1MB every 3 seconds.


Recording meetings with OBS is pretty simple.

The process is exactly like that of streaming a computer game along with local microphone audio, except one pushes the "Start Recording" button instead of the "Start Streaming" button inside of OBS. There's got to be a million (or more) howtos written on the subject.

Hardware-wise, it's pretty straight forward: GPUs (including the ones that are a part of most non-Xeon Intel CPUs) have been up to the task of realtime video compression for around a decade or maybe more, which allows for the heavy lifting to be done in specialized silicon.

A bigger concern than the technical practicality might be legal concerns that generally surround audio recording.

For instance: In my state, I am permitted to record any conversation that I am a participant in -- I don't need permission from anyone but myself, and I don't need to notify anyone.

But in the US alone, there's also 49 other states worth of laws on the subject, and they can vary quite a lot.




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