On Thu, 26 Mar 2020, Michael Barnes wrote:
I have participated in a bunch of webinars and the video was always one way. Participants had two way audio and could comment and ask questions, nobody could see them. Other than seeing who is sleeping or left the room, I see little value in two way video for presentations. Granted, your situation may be different. Maybe you are doing soap carvings and want to see everybody's work. In that case, you may want to go with a paid subscription that allows up to 100 video participants.
Michael, Participating might be different from hosting a webinar. I downloaded FCC's desktop app (not yet installed), and read the instructions for voice and video conferencing. Voice conferences are all done with a phone (landline or mobile); easy-peasy. Webinars and video coferences (webinars with host providing video and participants seeing it, both sides having audio connection, or video conferences with all participants seeing each other) looks like a problem.
From the web site's instructions:
"To host an online meeting with Web Viewer: Using Chromebook (only Chromebook supports full host functionality at this time), log in to your online account and navigate to your Meeting Wall." Feh! I didn't look to see what subset of full host functionality the rest of the user world has. Have you hosted a video conference or presented a webinar with FCC? Regards, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
