Automatically stream pre-recorded videos at session start

Thomas Hansen

• November 02, 2020 13:57

For pre-recorded video sessions, it would be good if there was an option to automatically start streaming the uploaded video at session start. This ensures that all attendees are complete the viewing at the same time - making it easier to handle life Q&A sessions afterwards. 

Currently having the videos as on-demand means that there can be a big difference in the start and end times for attendees watching videos - which can in turn make it difficult to time any live Q&A sessions when everyone is done watching. 

Being able to set a video to auto-play makes the whole process easier for speakers and moderators. 

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  Tom Brand

  • November 18, 2020 07:07

  I agree, Thomas. I was under the impression if I uploaded a video linked to YouTube, it would automatically play at  the start time of the session and if anyone joined in-progress, it would be sync'd with everyone else viewing.

  Now, I'm thinking I'm going to have to babysit the sessions all day long, changing them to webinars and triggering the video from my end...PLUS, having to change all my meeting types to pull this off.

   

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  Thomas Hansen

  • November 18, 2020 07:17

  Hi Tom, 
  
  We had an event recently with a lot of pre-recorded content. The way we ran this was for the videos to be released at session start time, where the attendees then start playing the video themselves - which gives some challenges when it comes to the Zoom meeting Q&A after everyone has watched the video. 
  
  Getting the speakers to play / broadcast the video via a Zoom meeting / webinar was an option we decided not use, as it looked like you lost quite a bit of video quality with this. 
  
  To me the best solution would be to have the videos stream at session start, and then be able to have an embedded Zoom session just after that starts seamlessly so that attendees easily go from watching content to talking to the speaker / panel afterwards. 

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  Tom Brand

  • November 18, 2020 07:23

  I totally agree...I've noticed a drop in quality by doing the playback and it defeats the purpose (and tremendous cost) of pre-recording sessions (after all, here I am up at 1:30 in the morning uploading video that I may not end up utilizing when we go live in the morning :) )
  
  

  I tried putting up the video link with the autoplay option in the YouTube URL, but that still didn't work within Pathable.

   

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