Vyew Discussion Forum

I’ve been testing Vyew for the last little bit and it really looks to be a great tool.  Congratulations on what you’ve acheived.  One of the key features for us is the emerging video functionality.  Having testing this feature out a bit there are some options I would love to see.

I would really like to see a higher quality video option.  I realize that the limiting factor is bandwidth which most likely is one of your bigger expenses.  So consider offering it on your paid subscriptions only.  I would gladly pay a reasonable amount to have higher quality video that makes Vyew a feasible video conferencing solution.

There are some other options that would be helpful as well in regard to the video pod.

Enlarge Video: I’m simply re-iterating what has already been said ( http://vyew.com/site/forum/viewthread/1252)

Hide my own video: I know what I look like so I would like to be able to completely remove my own video feed from my screen.  Screen and Pod space is a precious commodity.

Moderate Video: Mimic the mic feature where the Owner must grant users the right to broadcast their video and tie it together with the audio.  In our use case we’re only interested in broadcasting from one place to many others.  So each location would take a turn broadcasting their video and audio out to others.  So each user will need to be a collaborator but we don’t want each one to be able to start broadcasting at whim; the owner should be able to control who is broadcasting audio and video.

Thanks for listening,
Bryan

I agree with other comments that it would be great to have improved video. I would be willing to be a subscriber for that, as I do education and training. And to be able to have more than 5 people at a time on the video broadcast. I also do not need to see myself.

Otherwise this is great. Good work!

Same here. For tutoring purposes it would be great to have the option of a larger video pod.  That is having a selection of pod sizes to choose from. 

Thanks,
Fred

Great tool by the way!

Yes, I’d LOVE to see higher quality video.  In addition to having meetings, we also often have a presenter giving a talk, and it would be great if we could just point the camera at the presenter and you could have a decent sized video of high quality so 4-5 people who are remote could easily follow along with the presentation.

What might work is to be able to click on one of the video streams and have it appear larger in high quality where the documents normally are.

Being able to hide your own video would be good too.

Currently, in Vyew 4.0 we have a few ways to increase the size of the videos:

In the Video menu (gear icon to the right of the “webcam” and “talk” buttons), you can select “Expand video size” as many times as you want to increase the size of the overall pod.  You can also manually increase the size of this pod by moving your mouse near the outer edges of the pod until your cursor changes to a double-arrow cursor.  You can then press and drag to resize the pod.

When there is more than one video being broadcasted, if you rollover one of the videos you should see a window icon at the top right of that video.  Clicking that icon will maximize the size of that video (making it larger than the other videos).