Recording with Live Meeting 2007
Jun 11th 2008Desmond LeeCommunications Server 2010 (Wave 14) / LCS/OCS 2007 R2/ & Windows Server 200x/ 2008/ Server Core/ R2 & XP/Vista /Windows 7
Did you know that you can record an Office Live Meeting 2007 session using the built-in Recording feature? Recording sources can come from (shared) data, voice and video for saving to the default High Fidelity Presentation (HFP) format*.
In essence, these are 2 main files produced that are of real interested in addition to the XML and other files in the folder hierarchy. Both carry the WMV file extension, although one is for video and the other audio. When you inspect the properties of these files, they will be shown as Windows Media Video (302KBps) and Windows Media Audio (17Kbps) respectively. These formats are fixed and you do not have any option to adjust them.
You should have no trouble running a direct playback of the recorded audio track with the latest version of Windows Media Player. Nevertheless, opening the video WMV results in the error below:
Windows Media Player Error Message Help
You’ve encountered error message C00D10D1 while using Windows Media Player. The following information might help you troubleshoot the issue.Codec is missing
Windows Media Player cannot play the file (or cannot play either the audio or video portion of the file) because the MSA1 codec is not installed on your computer.The missing codec might be available to download from the Internet. To search for the MSA1 codec, see WMPlugins.com.
Using the recommended link or your favorite search engine, the MSA1 codec cannot be located online as a free download. Various sources including Microsoft’s own support article here indicate that this issue only affects x64 editions of Windows because a 64-bit version of the codec is not yet available. However, tests on Windows XP SP3 (x86) resulted in the same error.
One workaround is to use Windows Media Encoder to convert to a previous codec or supported Windows Media Video 7/8 format (more here). Now why is this even a problem with a Microsoft product is rather incomprehensible, a sentiment echoed here. Perhaps third party applications you use or know of can fill this gap and do more?
* recording of web streaming audio/video is not supported
Technorati tags: Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, Vista, LCS/OCS , Unified Communications
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Kreedo on 12 Jun 2008 at 3:28 pm #
I love this feature but when recording video and audio alongside data the audio and video always gets out of sync. Are there any simple ways to sync this back up?
webmaster on 14 Jun 2008 at 12:56 pm #
Good point Kreedo. Perhaps authoring a LM session by breaking it down into separate blocks instead of one full continuous run will minimize the problem?
xarzu on 30 Jul 2009 at 7:45 am #
On windows server 2008 I got this message telling me I needed the MSA-1 codec only to find that they do not make one for that operating system.
So I got to use a Vista computer instead. But the office gave me a 64 bit version of Vista and once again I could not use Live Meeting.
So I came home with the live meeting files to watch on my 32 bit Vista home computer. Now, once again I get the error where it needs the MSA1 codec.
Where in the world do I get this codec?!
webmaster on 17 Aug 2009 at 3:06 pm #
xarzu,
One often overlooked option is to use the free Microsoft Live Meeting wrapper application that is available for off-line viewing of recorded TechNet Webcasts. Did you have a chance to look at that?
Keep us posted. Thanks!