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Share video and audio during meetings

During meetings we need to be able to share an online video with team members. Videos could be in Stream or Youtube or Vimeo or others. And this includes sharing the video sound. Currently we use normal Teams screen sharing, but all team members on the call can either hear or see, the video/audio are always asynchronous.

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Mohamed Hassan shared this idea  ·   ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
working on it  ·  AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded  · 

Share video and audio during meetings is released on Windows. Mac support is now planned for CY20Q3.

Note: Live events support for video and audio is tracked in this item – https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/38470144.

Please refer to this page for more info on this feature: https://support.office.com/article/share-system-audio-in-a-teams-meeting-dddede9f-e3d0-4330-873a-fa061a0d8e3b.

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  • Adrianne Penullar commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes please, now I am left installing Parallels Desktop and Windows 10 on my Mac just so that I can play video for my students. Another purchase to an already expensive year.

  • Eric commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is such an often-used and basic requirement of ours that I never IMAGINED it wouldn't just be part of Teams already, like, from day 1. Now, less than a week away from rollout, we just realized this isn't possible. ... I have the spins.

  • Phil Rigotti commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    There is 'not too complex' workaround for non-techy folk. (I'm not techy and use this workaround....)

    1: Go to "Audio Midi Setup" - included in every Mac.
    2: Bottom left - "+" - Create Aggregate Device.
    3: Choose 'Built in Output' and 'Built in Microphone' - or select the microphone you are using if you have a different microphone.
    4: In sound preferences on your Mac - choose 'Aggregate Device'
    5: In Teams - Audio Device=Custom Setup, Speaker=Built-In Output, Microphone= whichever microphone you are using.

    In use - When playing a video through PowerPoint participants will hear the video in the same way you do - the volume is best controlled through the actual video as using an aggregate device doesn't give you the normal range of controls.

    I hope these instructions help someone - I'm not a tech person, just a user who found a way to do this. I didn't need any new software or any downloads.

    There are probably some details that you will want to try and adjust - I tested different things with a colleague until we found what worked.

    Meanwhile: Microsoft!! What are you thinking...?? Teams is very very challenging to use on a Mac... And don't get me started on USB webcams in Teams....

    For what it's worth...I have a colleague who tried to share audio from a PPT in Teams and failed....and she uses a MS Surface Book...

  • Adrianne Penullar commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please. Our students cannot play Youtube on their end so we have to stream audio for instructional purposes. Does anyone have a workaround? This is an absolute necessity right now.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Urgently needed feature on macs.
    Please let us have some updates on the release date

  • JB commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi admin, can we please get a realistic update on the Mac integration of sharing system sound? Teams has had many great new features but due to lack of supporting MAC I am having to use WEBEX or ZOOM. It would be awesome to get this as soon as possible. Or at least an update please. Thanks in advance for your communication.

  • CRC3223 commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Can we get an update on this please? Semester 1 begins in September and we need to be able to share audio via Mac - otherwise will need to look into other platforms.

    Thank you.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    These sorts of mismatching features between windows and mac should be visible, disabled, and have a tooltip indicating it doesn't yet exist for mac. It's frustrating when a windows user sees it and tries to explain to a mac user how to enable it.

  • Ben commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is lacking in macOS as others are stating. This is needed to like-for-like functionality!

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