Screen-sharing Explained

Easy Ways to Share Content and Audio with Your Team

Do you want to share your screen or share a file during a group video meeting? Maybe even with sound or several people at once? Eyeson presents the perfect solution for you.

Structure of this article:

• Screen-sharing step by step
• Sharing a browser-tab with audio
• Sharing your entire screen with audio (Windows only)
• Sharing your screen instead of your own camera
• Ending your screen share
• Video Tutorial

 

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Screen-sharing step by step

After you have opened your eyeson room, click on Share Screen or File in the left sidebar. This will open the presentation window where you have three options:

• Share screen as full presentation
• Share screen instead of own video
• Share file

Click on the "Share screen as full presentation" Share button. Now you can again decide between three options to share:

• your entire screen
• an application window
• a certain browser tab.

In this case, you have chosen to share your entire screen, you need to click on the picture with your screen on it in order for the Share button to appear.

Note, that after you confirmed the screen-share, other participants will see exactly what you see on your screen. So, in case you need to open PPT or other presentation programs, this is possible to do with screen-sharing, meaning you just need to open a presentation on your computer and press "play". 

If you are on the Mac using Google Chrome and have some problems, follow this link:
Problem With Screen Sharing After Update to Catalina?

 

 

 

Sharing computer sound during screen-share

With eyeson you can present any video or mp3-file with sound. The audio quality is perfect, and if needed, you can also use your microphone at the same time.

 

 

 

Sharing a browser-tab with audio

Let's say you want to share a YouTube video with your participants.

First, click on Share your screen button, choose Chrome Tab, select the YouTube page, and enable the checkbox "Share Audio" located on the Chrome's screen share dialog.

Important: Don't forget to activate the "Share Audio"-checkbox in the screen share pop-up!

Play the video. Now, everyone will watch and hear the YouTube video. 

Good to know:

• The Chrome browser can also play local video or audio files. Open a new tab and drag&drop the file on it, or choose “Open File…” from the menu and you’re ready to present the tab including audio.

• You can also play sound from the slides of your presentation if you are using web applications like Google Slides or others. With PowerPoint presentations it is for example possible to upload them to your OneDrive and open them using the PPT web application. (If you are using a Microsoft device, you can simply share your entire screen and open the PPT locally as explained below).

 

 

 

Sharing your entire screen with audio (Windows only)

On Windows, screen sharing with audio is not only available for browser tabs but also for the entire screen. No matter which program or file is open on your screen and what you present, you can share sound, too!

How does it work?

Sharing your screen with audio works the same way as sharing it without audio (explained above). First, click on the Share your screen button and choose the screen you want to share. Don't forget to enable the "Share Audio"-checkbox in the lower left corner.

Now, simply open any program you need for you presentation on your computer. That's it!

This way, you can play videos directly in your preferred local video player (e.g. Windows Media Player, VLC Player, etc.) or present your slides using your local applications (e.g. PowerPoint). Basically, you can use any program you want and even show browser tabs including audio, too.

Just be sure to show the programs on the screen you selected for the screen sharing if you use more than one screen.

 

Sharing your screen instead of your own camera

We call this feature the ScreenCam.

To use this feature, click on Share Screen or File in the left sidebar. This will open the presentation window where you have three options:

• Share screen as full presentation
• Share screen instead of own video
• Share file

Choose the second of those three options. Everything else works the same as with our screen-sharing feature. The only difference is that you share your screen not in full-screen mode but rather instead of your own camera. This means that either everyone else can still be visible in the video stream with their cameras OR they can also share their screen as ScreenCam independently from your presentation, making it possible for several participants to share their screen at the same time. For more details about this feature and its different use cases, please read this article.

Ending a presentation 

Screen sharing can be immediately stopped by simply clicking Stop in your video call tab. 

 

Video Tutorial

We prepared a short video for you as well.