Meetings with many people

How it works

In a small meeting, each participant sends their video directly to everyone else. This works well up to 4 to 6 people; beyond that, everyone's computer and connection become overloaded.

For larger meetings, Omnifloo uses a meeting server: everyone sends their video only once, and the server redistributes it to the others.

How many participants?

With the meeting server: in the order of 10 to 15 people with their camera on, and more if most only use their microphone or just listen. These are orders of magnitude, not guarantees: they have not yet been measured in real conditions.

The limiting factor is bandwidth: each camera that is on uses about 1 Mbit/s to send, and as much again for each person receiving it. A meeting with 12 cameras therefore needs a good connection for every participant.

As long as the meeting server is not enabled on your workspace, video calls work like a small meeting (4 to 6 people). If it is temporarily unavailable, calls may fail until it is restored.

What is included

• Video and audio calls
• Screen sharing
• Written chat during the meeting
• Invitation by link, including for outside guests

What is not offered for now

• Webinars for several hundred people
• Meeting recording
• Automatic subtitles and transcription
• Dialling in from a landline or mobile phone, without internet

Preparing a large meeting

1. Ask everyone to use an up-to-date browser and a headset, to avoid echo.
2. Have people who do not need to be seen turn their camera off: it is the setting that improves quality the most.
3. Before an important meeting, run a five-minute test with participants connected from different networks.
4. On a heavily filtered company network that blocks real-time communications, the video may be degraded or fail to connect: use another network (for example 4G) or ask your IT department to allow access to the meeting server.

Frequently asked questions