Wide-angle web cams are cropped
We have a wide angle webcam for our conference room. When we have more than 1 person join a meeting, it crops the video feed of our conference room. Microsoft Teams recognizes the wide angle aspect ratio just fine but crops it based on how many other users join the meeting. Either the right or left side of the video is cut off depending on which position the video is placed in the meeting screen.
Having a setting to maintain aspect ratio would be really helpful. We are loosing video of people who are presenting if they aren't in the side of the camera that is being cut off.
Another solution would be to resize the video windows per user, so the video would capture the needed people.
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Andreas
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Not satisfying having this issue. Teams should have similar features as Skype. We have to "sell" teams internal to our users but losing well known and needed features is not an enabler.
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KA
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same here!
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Mehmet Demirörs
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We are switching back to Skype meetings since this feature is not given in MS Teams but in Skype for Business. Having same feature in MS Teams would help to get rid of Skype and start using MS Teams company wide.
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Scott
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Yes, this feature is needed. Often have a conference room of people and one or two calling in.
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Supriya Barik
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Dear,
You are requested a logged a complaint against the following environmental issue, described below:
While connecting more than 2 participants in Microsoft TEAMS software, every individual window is being cropped and split accordingly. We must have the option of selecting the individual window in full screen.
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Tom
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Please fix this ASAP, it totally ruins the video conferencing experience. People without cameras should get zero real estate on the screen. Those with cameras should have their entire camera's view shown. And provide options for optimising the feature.
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Paul
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As IT director of our company, I will not switch to Teams until this is ready
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Danny Briere
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Would like this to work with Meeting Owl.
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Anonymous
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Is there any solution to this problem in sight?
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Anonymous
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fix this!
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Shouou Saito
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Only fix so far, UNINSTALL Teams and switch back to Skype for Business.
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RDD
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This is crazy! Microsoft - please fix this ASAP!
We're forced to have a fifth person join our monthly meeting ... just to make the 4 images on each participant's screen into landscape aspect ratio. With only 4 groups total in the meeting - then each person has 3 images and one of the three is forced into portrait aspect ratio - and we lose 2/3 of their room.
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Anonymous
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We desperately need the ability to turn this off and show the whole video feed.
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Flemming Jønsson
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I also would like some way to control this. Manually would be fine.
I really don't get why people without video feed is getting just as much screen space as those with video.
Why would I want 1/2 my screen to show a profile image while the video of the person/meeting room who is streaming end up getting cropped. -
Anonymous
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This is typical Microsoft - so nearly a great product marred by a simple omission. The auto cropping means that when conferencing with my remote colleagues all I get to see is the space between them, and occasionally it'll decide to pan to the one of them who's not talking. Teams is trying to be too clever for its own good.
Also, I don't seem able to adjust things like camera brightness level without being in an actual call. Again, this just feels like an oversight.
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D Knight
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This needs fixing. Since nearly all cameras are 16:9 and not 4:3 why should the videos be cropped to 4:3 it looks awful. You have to make the Microsoft Teams app only use 1/2 the desktop to force the video to display right.
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Charles
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Needs to be fixed ASAP! This is not acceptable.
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Rob Straka
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Yes, please add a setting to disable this video cropping. We need feature parity between Skype for Business and Teams. My users are starting to use Teams but there are no options!!!
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Ian
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Yes! This would be very helpful.
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Mark Wiseley
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This is horrible. We have moved from Skype for Business to Teams, but we frequently have video conferences with more than 2 people and love the Owl, but the cropping makes them useless. This is standard on every other video conferencing solution. This needs to get fixed!
