Re: [Tools-discuss] Access to test audio and video

Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Fri, 31 July 2020 15:05 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Tools-discuss] Access to test audio and video
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On Jul 31, 2020, at 10:37 AM, Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Other conferencing solutions allow selection of audio and video devices (and testing of them) before joining the active session.  Meetecho currently only allows this when the session starts.

Worse, as a participant, you don’t know if your audio is working until you’ve been granted permission to speak. This is really bad, and has prevented me from speaking at the mic several times.