This comment isn't really social, I'm just hoping someone can suggest where to send it that might actually be noticed. Haven't been able to find a suitable bugs/enhancements forum.

The zoom linux installation documentation is seriously out-of-date. We're not talking about a couple of years, try a decade or so.. . This won't matter to those generally familiar with linux; it will matter a lot to new users. Probably need fixing. I'm most familiar with Redhat-based distros. The documentation refers to yum. On Fedora, it was superseded a decade ago, more recently on other distros, but I don't think anything current uses yum. Likewise, it refers to CentOS, which is now unsupported, but not to any of the successor distros. So basically anyone using it is out-of-luck unless they know their distro is a CentOS successor.

A more general issue, the documentation implies that all that's needed to update the software is to install it again. Generally, if you install an existing rpm you're at risk of losing all user settings. Some RPMs take care of this, but judging by the complexities I get even from using the 'dnf update' command and the number of *conf.rpmnew files I find after updates, there are plenty that don't. Maybe the zoom RPM does handle it, in which case it might be wise to mention it. But given this issue, maybe it would be safer to recommend users to update from within zoom.

I'm guessing there are probably similar problems with the docs of debian-based distros. I do run ubuntu a bit, but  on headless systems, so there's no point installing zoom (and no easy way to check whether it works).

I have a recording of a Zoom webinar - the real time duration is about 4 hours, but the converted mp4 is only 30 minutes long. At 11 mins 50 seconds into the recording the audio becomes scrambled, as if it's playing in extreme fast forward.

The zoom meeting was recorded onto computer

The '.zoom' file is 327 MB, the converted mp4 is 55 MB. The separate m4a audio file has the same error.

I've tried reconverting the .zoom file multiple times but with the same results.

During conversion an 'xcode_error' log is generated with [C1797], [C1536] and [S503] entries

Can this file be recovered?

Is there a 3rd party app that can read (and repair) .zoom files

Any ideas on why the .zoom file became corrupt in the first place? (One theory is that attendees using OtterAI might have scrambled the recording?)

Thanks for your help!

Hi.  I am setting up my first meeting.   I sent contact invitations to 28 Cloud Contacts.  8 accepted, but 20 have been pending for days.  What must I do to invite the 20 pending people to the meeting?  How will their experience differ from that of those who registered by accepting?   

I am more often than not serving as a host and rarely just a participant, so am wondering about something.

I understand what happens when I spotlight an individual (or two).

But, from the participant side, do they have the option to change the view back to gallery and/or speaker? 

Or are they stuck on the spotlight until the host removes it? 

I have created a personal zoom link that people can use to login to our meetings. For some reason when people are scheduling a zoom with me through Calendly, zoom creates a new link for these meetings each time so my clients are getting confused about which link to join. How do I stop zoom from creating a new link each time and just use my personal link for the meeting?