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Newcomer
September 20, 2025
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Zoom recording download does not play video

  • September 20, 2025
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Hello,

I recorded a Zoom meeting in the cloud, as art of my membership business. I edited the video using Zoom's trimming tool, and both the video and audio looked perfectly fine. When I downloaded the trimmed files and tried to play them, the video did not appear, but the audio played fine. I tested these files on VLC Media Player, Camtasia Studio, and DaVinci Resolve.  I then reverted the video and downloaded the originals...no luck with any of these, either. Same issue.

 

I have previously downloaded and played many videos from Zoom with no problem, using these same tools. Today, I tried to play back the recording in the Zoom Hub and received the following message: "The media playback was aborted due to a corruption problem or because the media used features your browser did not support."

 

Is there someone at Zoom who can help recover my recording?

 

I received no error code. I am working on a Dell Alienware Area 51 AT2250 desktop computer (Windows 11, NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPU). My Zoom Workplace for Windows version is 6.6.1 (15968). 

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Newcomer
September 26, 2025

Did you ever find a solution? I got a new computer and none of my zoom recordings will play either. They play fine in google drive, fine on my phone, but will not play on my computer. 

rfornangoAuthor
Newcomer
September 27, 2025

Hi @Fade1414

I did find a solution. I purchased DaVinci Resolve Studio, and was able to read the file and export a new .mp4 file that works fine across platforms. Not an ideal solution, spending almost $300 to make Zoom downloads viewable...but it did work.