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markorudloff
Copper Contributor
May 31, 2021

Live Event feature request - show live video screen/chat on beamer/video wall in local meeting hall

Hello everybody,   I didn't find a solution yet for the following rquirement, so I am trying to get this on the list for future development. If anybody has a solution already, I would also apprecia...
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LinusCansby
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Jun 03, 2021

Hi,

 

https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/ is the best place to request new features for Teams.

 

I can suggest an alternatives for you.

  • For the Video Wall produce the event on one PC using OBS or Vmix or similar, the output signal send it via HDMI into a splitter that sends to the Video Wall and a computer that send out the Live Event. To get the signal in to the Live Event computer use a HDMI2USB converter.
  • Chat feature, I guess you mean the Q&A module in Live Events, that is harder to solve. 
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    markorudloff
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 07, 2021

    LinusCansby 

    Thanks for your suggestion. We've already tried to use a video mixer (my favourite: Blackmagic Atem Mini), what works good for local (on premise) video sources.
    At the moment you try to share online content to local visitors this idea works only halfway good:

    • in general: you have to deal with two video mixer panels (Teams itself, Hard-/Software mixer)
    • gets tricky if you start to share content (e.g. PowerPoint) because you have to share it by Hard-/Software mixer - there must be a "defined one and only" source PC
    • no way to share online content (e.g. presentation/video from an Online-Participant) in fullscreen onto local video wall in acceptable quality (because the source is online and not locally connected to video mixer)

    vMix would be a solution (technically), but if we used this one there'd be no need to use teams anymore - we could directly stream with that software (and would loose the Q&A feature).

    At least, what I am looking for is the feature "Fullscreen Output"/"External Output" that vMix offers (https://www.vmix.com/purchase/#comparisontable) - but directly in Teams :smile:

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