On 17/04/2014 12:54, Ewan MacMahon wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 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.
I think that's right. An early version of Vidyo on Windows would crash
if there was no camera on the system: the developers had assumed that
everyone would be using a camera. The workaround was to put a dummy
camera definition into the registry!
John
> 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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