Forum Discussion
Improve quality of a Teams screen-shared video?
erimo This issue was resolved. However, in order to resolve it, we needed to know how networking works in Teams. Here's a great video. https://youtu.be/vi3M7ZzF2NU It's about an hour long, but well worth it.
We put together a few test cases to verify the components of the system we control, specifically, the end points. We did a direct call between computers on the same LAN and attempted to stream the video. Fail. Since this case did not require any communication to the Microsoft Cloud (see the video), we were able to identify that the source computer just didn't have enough horsepower. After switching to a more powerful computer, we could stream video up to 720p without any performance issues. We brought the Microsoft Cloud into the loop by changing from a direct call to a meeting. There was virtually no difference in performance.
In further testing, we found anything less than an i5 would struggle. But as long as you have a decent machine and work within Microsoft's network guidelines, everything seems to run pretty well.
At least that is our experience...
-Upload videos into MS Steam
-Embed in PowerPoint via 'insert video, online video' option and use the MS Stream link to the video in Stream
NOTE: (you don't have to do the MS Stream bit if the source video is on YouTube, you can use the YouTube link)
-Make sure the PowerPoint file is not save locally but it being presented from a cloud volume like SharePoint Online or OneDrive and when presenting, present 'PowerPoint Live' not your screen or app/window sharing options
Why does this work?
It's online to many versus online to your machine and then your machine to attendee machine, plus, it excludes things like your local machine variables that can add frames like an outdated graphics adapter driver
- This method works most of the time, with a caveat: if the end user is not logged into the company VPN, they can join the Teams meeting, but the content in the PPT will not be seen. It is blocked since they aren't logged into the tenant domain. Even when they are logged in, we see issues with this method occassionally. Looking forward to a better video sharing experience!
