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.
Grady Hartman
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We are excited to announce large gallery view (7×7 videos) and Together mode are available to the public for desktop & mobile.
Large Gallery is an optional feature and can be turned on at any time during the meeting. The new large gallery has a flexible design and will deliver a network-optimized client video experience that works on multiple device categories.
For more information, please see: https://support.microsoft.com/office/using-video-in-microsoft-teams-3647fc29-7b92-4c26-8c2d-8a596904cdae?storagetype=stage#ID0EABAAA=Desktop
Note: For the status of this feature for Government Clouds, please visit https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/926545/suggestions/40000762.
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Charles
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We're going to use slack unless you can put this in to have more than 4 participant videos showing.
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Daniel McCown
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For some reason on Mac OS when you are in full screen it shows fewer of the participants video windows along the bottom than when not in full screen mode. I would expect no difference.
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Sheldon Kelly
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I believe that giving us the ability to display participants In a Gallery View is essential, not only because the other providers have the feature. The use case is valid since this functionality would help with the management of meetings/interactions giving the coordinator or users a greater sense of the size of the meeting, who is online and the level of energy/focus that is in the meeting.
Please reconsider the priority if this feature, it is important to us.
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Anonymous
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any updates regarding this?
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Steve Bumba
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Someone here should look at what Zoom is doing - this isn't something we should be asking for in today's world.
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Sandy
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Agreed. Please fix this ASAP!
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Jerry
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In a large corporation (100,000+ users) there is a requirement to have move than 4 people in view during a meeting as active conversations include up to a dozen people.
On a side note, Webex just upgraded to a 5 x 5 grid of users in view in their new version of "WebEx Teams". This is the biggest competing technology in our company.
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David Chappell
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Absolutely essential to have thumbnails of all participants - but perhaps with last 4 to speak on screen being fine. You won't win the Zoom users until you do - simple!
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ThePangy
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This is must have functionality considering the majority of competitor meeting solutions (Zoom, Fuze, GoToMeeting, etc.) support many more video feeds than 4. We have Teams rolled out in our organization and are trying to get people migrated over from Zoom and GoToMeeting and this is honestly the biggest hurdle for them. I've used Zoom previously and worked in an organization that used Fuze for everything. While most of the time there are not 20+ people in a meeting with video on, there are many times when there are 5+. Very shortsighted to have this limitation.
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Danny Pisani
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We use zoom for large meeting which allows 25 video feeds in it's gallary view. This is an essential feature for large remote teams.
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John
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Agreed! This is a feature in Zoom, that our managers say they cannot live without. They want the ability to see all of the people on a video chat at one time. I know this could become troublesome for large groups of people, but perhaps we could expand the number of active video participants to 8 or 12. Better yet, have them all active, but have the current speaker auto-enlarge. Even better, make the later feature customizable to fit your personal/company needs.
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Nic Przada
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Please add this as soon as possible. We have moved to Teams from Go To Meeting, but staff are reverting back to Go To Meeting because of this issue.
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Ryan Harper
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Couldn't agree more, there is so much from teams that is great, but coming from hangouts this is a serious decrease in functionality.
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Michael Gelz
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We are currently looking into Fuze as well and they have it, I guess up to 24 videos on the screen at the same time. That's great. Of course, if you share your screen or an application, not all the participant will be visible. But Fuze also allows to move the videos around and re-arrange them. That's also a cool feature. I wish Teams could have that, too.
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Craig
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This is a real limitation? Ok - perhaps downgrading my 365 license.
This is not useable. -
Bogdan Carter commented
Great tool, Teams rocks, so much better then SfB. We run Mac environment and Teams works flawlessly! BUT - 4 active video streams is just not acceptable, this is business tool and not consumer. Businesses need a way to see more people. Even if it's a small screen at the bottom and it becomes bigger or centred when mice active or maybe do the request feature, where who ever want to speak they ask permission, the organizer grant this permission and they take the main stage....or do it time based. After request send the person who ever is on the main stage has 5/10/15 min after it will auto switch. Or If you want to be on the main stage, you simply click button to reserve stage, the previous speaker get notification that someone else want to speak, they accept the request and main stage is been passed over. Maybe have all the screens around, have them small. Everyone mute mics. Only one person can have unmuted mike at the time. Who has their mic un-muted get center stage.
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Great tool, Teams rocks, so much better then SfB. We run Mac environment and Teams works flawlessly! BUT - 4 active video streams is just not acceptable, this is business tool and not consumer.
Businesses need a way to see more people. Even if it's a small screen at the bottom and it becomes bigger or centred when mice active or maybe do the request feature, where who ever want to speak they ask permission, the organizer grant this permission and they take the main stage....or do it time based. After request send the person who ever is on the main stage has 5/10/15 min after it will auto switch. Or If you want to be on the main stage, you simply click button to reserve stage, the previous speaker get notification that someone else want to speak, they accept the request and main stage is been passed over.
Maybe have all the screens around, have them small. Everyone mute mics. Only one person can have unmuted mike at the time. Who has their mic un-muted get center stage.
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Bogdan Carter commented
Great tool, Teams rocks, so much better then SfB. We run Mac environment and Teams works flawlessly! BUT - 4 active video streams is just not acceptable, this is business tool and not consumer.
Businesses need a way to see more people. Even if it's a small screen at the bottom and it becomes bigger or centred when mice active or maybe do the request feature, where who ever want to speak they ask permission, the organizer grant this permission and they take the main stage....or do it time based. After request send the person who ever is on the main stage has 5/10/15 min after it will auto switch. Or If you want to be on the main stage, you simply click button to reserve stage, the previous speaker get notification that someone else want to speak, they accept the request and main stage is been passed over.
Maybe have all the screens around, have them small. Everyone mute mics. Only one person can have unmuted mike at the time. Who has their mic un-muted get center stage.
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Iain Fraser
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I would love to see something akin to Zoom, where you have a thumbnail bar showing everyone's video feeds and you can switch between which feed displays full-screen by clicking on each thumbnail. Size and positioning of feeds is very important because, as others have pointed out, I miss seeing most of the room because the main feed is cut in half, while the other person doesn't even have their camera on so I'm looking at their avatar.
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Jussi Orpana
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We all need THIS!!!