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How to broadcast or live stream a Zoom or Google Meet meeting

Tutorial · Updated

Join the meeting on a computer, open your AltarPage studio, tap "Zoom or Meet", tick "Bring the meeting's sound into the broadcast", and go live: share the meeting's tab with its audio. Listeners hear the meeting and your microphone on your link, with no time limit and little data.

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Step by step

  1. Join the meeting on a computer. Join in Chrome or Edge (or use the Zoom or Meet app with AltarPage Studio). Wear headphones.
  2. Open your studio. In another tab, open yoursite.altarpage.com/admin/cast, or open AltarPage Studio.
  3. Bring in the meeting. Tap Zoom or Meet and tick Bring the meeting's sound into the broadcast.
  4. Go live and share the meeting. Tap Go live. When the browser asks what to share, choose the meeting's tab and turn on Share tab audio, then allow the microphone. (Zoom app on Windows: Entire screen with Share system audio. AltarPage Studio brings in the computer's sound by itself.) You don't need the meeting's own Present or Share screen: AltarPage takes its sound directly.
  5. Balance the sound. Use the Meeting and My microphone sliders. Your own voice comes from your microphone, because the meeting doesn't play you back to yourself.
  6. Share your link. Send the listeners' link on WhatsApp. People listen, give and send prayer requests without joining the call.

On Zoom Pro: use Zoom's live stream

Zoom Pro and higher can stream straight to AltarPage with a stream key, so no computer needs to share its sound. See streaming from Zoom, OBS or a mixer.

YouTube too

The same steps put the sound of a YouTube video or YouTube Live on your link: share the YouTube tab instead. See broadcast the audio of your YouTube live stream.

From a phone

Phones don't let one app record another app's call. On a phone, use Zoom's live stream (if your Zoom app shows "Live on Custom Live Streaming Service" under More), or join on one phone and connect its headphone output to the broadcasting phone with an audio cable or USB adapter.

Why broadcast instead of a bigger call

Calls are limited (40 minutes on free Zoom, 60 on free Meet, 100 people), heavy on data, and awkward for people who just want to listen and pray. A broadcast has no listener limit, uses about 22 MB an hour, and keeps Give and prayer requests in the same place.