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Show video for all people in Video meeting

Currently when in a video chat it only shows the active video for the last 4 people that have spoken in the chat. On the bottom bar it shows icons for all those in the chat. If it could show small video for all those in the chat that have their cameras turned on it would be beneficial. Then everyone on the video conference can see the reactions of others, whether they were the last to speak or not.

This is a problem with most video chatting applications. Google Hangouts it the only one we have found that shows video of all the participants on the screen.

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  • Henry Rydzik commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The user should also have the capability of selecting a video and have it fill the screen instead of just the 1 of 4 boxes. Zooming would also be beneficial for physical whiteboard presentations.

  • Lisa Wyn commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes please update this feature so that more attendees can be seen. I have switched over from Skype for this very reason. However, because Teams does not show more than four faces, I have no way of knowing who would like a turn to speak since I can only see their icon below.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We are using teams for remote agile scrum retrospectives and many meetings in the company - I really need to see all participants all the time

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please work on improving the video (own video screen, remote participants) handling.

    We sometimes use two projectors and like to arrange certain video screens. WebEx used to be best for that, but company decided to stop using it on corporate level.

    If Teams can't catch up soon, we will need to get a pool of WebEx accounts for these types of meetings.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It would be great if the app can have options of the layout of the video.
    Zoom for example give the user the choice of showing all participants with equal window sizes or just enlarge the window of the current speaker while the rest stays small.

    it would also be good if we can hide video window when file sharing or file collaboration occurs. Now the video window blocks part of the view which affects 14-15 inch laptop screens.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    For a common state of a group transmitting gestures of all participants is video visibility like Gallery-View very helpful. This is the reason, why for bigger meetings between 20 - 50 participants Teams could not be used. Also the feature of combined screen sharing view beside the gallery view would be nice (and on several monitors would be nice).

  • Andrew Edney commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This limit is even more frustrating when you don't use video calling (just voice) because you can end up with a UHD screen being mostly wasted - if we have 12 people on the call there is more than enough screen space to have a box each.

  • Alexandr commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This feature really causes inconvenience in work. I ask developers to be understanding. We hope to see an update of the interface for the client application in the near future.

  • Timothy Sassen commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Echo all the comments here about this being catch-up work for Microsoft. Teams is a promising workflow product, and we are poised to go "all in" once this feature is in place.

  • David Oliver commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Thanks for the update, Alex. I was going to post on this, so glad to know it's being addressed. Need to have this feature to catch up to other platforms we use, so I can keep singing the praises of Teams as a complete, equivalent service.

  • Liam commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Just had an owner of the business reject Teams due to a perceived 4 person limit in video.

    Be aware not having this is causing perception Teams can't handle larger calls

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