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> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB-
> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jensen, Jens (STFC,RAL,SC)
>
> And also to see who is speaking. If I open the participants list they all
> look the same. With the usual suspects I usually recognise voices when
> they don't have colds or connect in from Internet cafés in Timbuktu but
> there might be a new suspect from time to time. Some sort of visual
> indicator that a given participant is trying to emit sound for our general
> edification and entertainment would be helpful.
>
I get the impression that Vidyo is heavily video oriented, but we barely
use it at all; if we did you'd be able to see who was speaking directly.
If there's one key point we could make to the developers, it's that they
need to try it with the video turned off. At that point the lack of a
speaking user highlight, the silliness of a vertical chat window, the
awkwardness of the auto-hiding controls, and the pointlessness of the big
black space in the centre of the screen become pretty obvious. If you're
focussed on giving people the best view of video though, all those things
make sense.
Ewan
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