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Teams Live Events: Adding shared screen content to queue not possible?
Hi Thomas_Laggner ,
thanks. Do you mean you're outputting the content from your desktop via HDMI and then connect the HDMI to an USB camera device and use that as source? So that the content from the desktop is also available from a camera source in Teams? I guess this can be done with some tech savvy users but for most of them this would not be an option to be hones.
By the way I am also missing the option to mute the audio from Producers and Moderators for all attendees so that presenters can talk to each other without having the audience listen!
Thanks
Michael
But as you say does take some steps. I have a couple webinars where I’ve done this to an extent if you want to see them I can link but it’s def. not something the masses will easily figure out. But if it’s a small set of users that need to do it might not be that bad.
Thanks. I found the software "ManyCam" that allows to capture anything and output it in a virtual webcam. Using the virtual webcam as source for the producer we can achieve that the producer can replace the live stream with the source from the webcam when necessary.
Otherwise we have the problem that even though a presenter stops sharing his desktop or app the contents of this webcam are still being transmitted into the livestream. The producer has no option to replace the video stream from the presenter other than with another video stream - which usually is his own webcam or the video source from another presenter. But it is better if the producer can replace the live stream with a placeholder that he wants to (if the producer only shares her own screen, the video source of the presenter from before is still being transmitted and not replaced).
Microsoft should add such an ability natively to Live Events.
Thanks
Michaellayer9de
That is one way to go.
At work I use 2-3 accounts and laptops to manage and monitor the calls
- Machine1 is doing the producer function + sending music from a phone (using audio interface)- Machine2 is there to share a deck of slides if needed or for the loop during the pre-meeting time (15 minutes before real start). Loops contains info on Attendee interface (audio/Q&A...) + meeting infos
I use it also to check that audio is good after it has been broadcasted
- Machine3 (can be a mobile or tablet) is connected to the attendee side to monitor the final broadcast.
I realise this is a lot of accounts and machines but this allows for full audio and broadcast monitoring 🙂This requires at least 2 accounts.
Now this is not ideal and MS should improve on this as giving the possibility to share with no preview control and take over with zero notice is not the way AV works.
Hope this helps.
- Yeah that’s essentially the same thing as OBS method I was talking about.
Ahh thanks, somehow missed that and even that OBS is free of charge. Actually with that solution in place Live Events in teams are much more managable.
We by the way also noticed today that if there are multiple producers within the Event, the view for the queue is individual for each of them.
It would be much much better if all producers saw the same view to easily find out was has been put into the queue by a different producer.
But I guess time will improve Live Events as well!
