User guide

6 Introduction: Overview of Breeze Meeting
System requirements
To participate in a Breeze meeting, you need the following requirements:
• An Internet connection
• One of the supported operating systems listed at www.macromedia.com/go/breeze_sysreqs
• One of the supported browsers listed at www.macromedia.com/go/breeze_sysreqs
• Macromedia Flash Player 6.0.65 or later as a browser plug-in
Note: Macromedia Flash Player is standard in most browsers. You can find out what version of
Flash Player you have at the Test Macromedia Web Players page at www.macromedia.com/
software/flash/about/.
• (Optional) A sound card and speakers to hear audio broadcasts from other meeting
participants
• (Optional) A microphone to broadcast audio to other meeting participants
• (Optional) A web camera to broadcast video to other meeting participants
What’s new in Breeze Meeting
The new features in Breeze Meeting provide greater ease-of-use, improved audio, enhanced
meeting management, and integrated audio conferencing.
Meeting interface A significant redesign of the menus and layout bar in Breeze Meeting
provides an intuitive user interface.
Meeting management Hosts have improved flexibility and control over managing activities in
a meeting. A host can now change an attendee’s role in a meeting or give them enhanced rights to
control a pod and its functionality.
Integrated audio conferencing A host can associate an audio conference with a web meeting
and control audio-conference participation. After entering a meeting, you can call yourself from
the Attendee List pod to include yourself in the conference call. In addition, you can have certain
controls over the call, such as mute, disconnect, and hold. Meeting attendees can view the
conference call status (indicated by animated icons) of other attendees.
Internet broadcasting (VoIP) Broadcasting audio from the Camera and Voice pod in Breeze
Meeting, you receive the highest quality Internet audio (VoIP).
Full-screen mode Presentations, shared applications, or shared screens can fill the screen and
obscure other pods. A presenter can synchronize the view of all attendees to full-screen mode.
Intended audience
This document provides information for Breeze meeting participants who are not presenters or
hosts. For information on creating and managing Breeze meetings, see Breeze Manager User
Guide. For information on the Presenter role, see Breeze Meeting User Guide for Hosts and
Presenters.