Important:
- To view a live stream, you must be in the same organisation as the meeting organiser or be identified by the Workspace admin as a trusted Workspace sub-domain. Get in touch with your Workspace admins to set up cross-domain live streaming.
- As a live stream viewer, you can't turn on or enable your camera or microphone on the live stream.
Tip: To watch the event later, ask the meeting organiser if a recording is available. The live stream can only be watched while being aired live.
Watch a live-stream event
To watch a live-stream event, you can:
- Click the live-stream link in the Google Calendar event or an email.
- Click the meeting link. In the green room and under 'Other joining options', select Watch the live stream
.
- Watch from a Google Meet hardware-compatible meeting room that has been added to the Google Calendar event. Learn how to add a room to an event.
When you watch a live-stream event, you can:
- Send reactions.
- Answer polls and Q&As.
- Adjust volume.
- Add captions.
- Set the received video quality.
- Switch to full-screen mode.
To display live stream info:
- At the bottom right of the screen, click Live stream details
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- On the right side panel, the live stream info displays.
Enable captions on your live stream
The language of the live stream captions is predetermined by the host.
To display captions:
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On the live-stream viewer, at the bottom, click Turn on captions
or Turn off captions
.