Sharing and playing a video in zoom App

Overview

Using the built-in video player for shared content, sharing a video clip has never been easier. Zoom’s built-in video player allows video files to be opened, played, and shared without other participants seeing the playback controls. By sharing your video through the built-in player, instead of a shared screen or application, you improve the quality of shared videos, providing a smoother and more stable viewing experience for your viewers.

Prerequisites

• Zoom desktop client
  • Windows: 5.4.3 or higher
  • macOS: 5.4.3 or higher
• Processor
  • 4-cores or higher
• Network Bandwidth
  • At least 1.5Mbps uplink and downlink for full screen HD
• Supported files
  • MOV or MP4 video file
    Note: Only the H.264 AVC codec for both mov and mp4 videos is supported.
• Signed-in to your Zoom account

Sharing your video

1. Log in to the Zoom desktop client.
2. Join or start a Zoom meeting.
3. Go to the meeting controls and click Share Screen.
4. Select Video under the Advanced tab.
5. Click the Open button after you have selected the video you wish to share.
   Zoom will now show the video to attendees.

Notes:

• Optimize for video clip is enabled automatically when enabled, which is generally recommended for sharing videos, but also downscales the resolution to 1080/720 for better frame rates. Manually disabling this will allow for higher resolution, though this should only be done for situations where framerate is less important.
• For this option, you must be signed in to the desktop client.

Playback controls

You will see some playback controls hidden from other meeting participants when sharing the video. These controls include:

• You can play or pause the video by clicking on Play/Pause.
• Time elapsed and video length: Displays the elapsed time of video playback and total video length.
• Slider for playback: Jumps to other parts of the video playback range
• Volume: Allows you to adjust the video volume.
• Fullscreen: The video can be viewed in full screen for both you and viewers.

Advantages of video share

If you use the option to share your desktop or an application, the video resolution is determined by your CPU usage, screen resolution, graphics card, and OS graphic system capabilities. Zoom also automatically downgrades videos larger than 1080p to 1080p (or 720p) in order to optimize content while minimizing bandwidth usage. Video sharing may require additional CPU resources if you share a specific application or only a portion of your screen, which can further affect the quality of both the video share and the meeting.

Zoom, however, encodes video from the file directly and shares it, bypassing some of the limitations of standard content sharing. Allowing the Zoom client to handle the encoding and sharing minimizes CPU usage for the participant who is sharing, which allows for higher frame rates and smoother video playback.