Webex Recording Format

Revision as of 16:16, 27 August 2019

Webex Recording Format (WRF) is a proprietary video container format used to store recordings created by Webex, a video conferencing program used mainly in business environments. It appears, based on mentions of a specific codec not "being accepted" by a conversion program^[3], to be a container format; the fact that it can use the H.264 codec^[3] suggests that it may internally use other widely-used formats, as well. It is possible that it may record other details of the video conference, such as text chat, as well.^[4] It was succeeded by Advanced Recording Format.

Sample Files

• SharingApp_ContactOperation.wrf (Produced garbage output when tested with the 2004 version of the player; unclear where the flaw is.)

Software

• Webex Player
  • webexplayer_intel.dmg: for OS X
  • Version from 2004
• WRF2WMV: Convert to WMV
• Video Converter Factory: Probably malware, with a very dubious claim to support the format. Did nothing but crash at startup when tested.

Links

• Get the Webex player
• Recording and Downloading Your WebEx Meetings

References

1. ↑ Wikipedia:Webex, see date of founding
2. ↑ Date of https://web.archive.org/web/20030724053357/http://meetingcenter1.webex.com/client/latest/atplay.exe
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} https://help.webex.com/en-us/WBX000026388/WRF2WMV-Converter → "Note"
4. ↑ http://www.wbximg.com/includes/documents/data-sheets/NBR_datasheet.pdf; unclear how much of this applies only to ARF