Important:
- To view a live stream, you must be in the same organization as the meeting organizer or identified by the Workspace Admin as a Trusted Workspace sub-domain. Reach out to 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 organizer 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
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- Watch from a Google Meet hardware compatible meeting room that has been added to the Google Calendar event. Learn how to add 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.
- View and send chat messages if the host permits sending.
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.
Switch from viewing a live stream & join as a contributor
If you’re watching a live stream for an adaptive meeting, you can quickly switch roles yourself. This applies if the host invited you as a contributor. As a contributor, you can use your camera and microphone to participate.
- On your computer, go to Google Meet.
- Join a live stream.
- On the left side of the call, hover to the live streaming badge
- Click Leave and join the call.
- On the confirmation message, click Leave.
- In the main call's green room, click Join now.
Enable captions on your live stream
The host predetermines the language of the livestream captions, but you can add automatic translation to your captions in your settings. Learn how to turn on translated captions.
To display captions:
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At the bottom, click Turn on captions
or Turn off captions
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