Yet on the Lync/SfB side an additional session is created for content outside of any established video or audio sessions (if they even exist) and will transmit RDP as media over TCP, consuming additional bandwidth on top of whatever the audio and video sessions are already using.
Normally the content is encoded as an H.264 AVC video stream, but could in some cases fall back to a legacy H.263 stream.
The content essentially steals bandwidth away from the main video when needed. While the traditional video conferencing systems use H.239 or BFCP to control the transport of the content, the actual content itself is encoded using a video codec and is sent within the same allowed bandwidth defined for the specific call. The delivery mechanisms for sharing content in these two worlds are very different though.
Generically speaking it was communicated as some level of native support for “ H.264 content sharing” coming to the Skype for Business platform. Up until now there have been only a few places that this new feature has been discussed in the public realm, and most of that was before there was even a name for it. Make sure to also read the new article to understand the latest functionality provided by VBSS. While the concepts covered in this article are still applicable some of the limitations documented below are no longer valid.
VIDEO ON HOW TO SHARE SCREEN SKYPE FOR BUSINESS UPDATE
The Office 365 Roadmap currently lists this feature under the In Development section, but it is now available with the release of the Skype for Business 2016 client that is included in Office 2016.Ī newer article entitled Skype for Business VBSS Update has been posted which highlights even newer functionality in Skype for Business. With a more complete understanding of VBSS and its potential roadmap then the answers to various interoperability questions should be quite clear. This article will explain what this new functionality is, as well as what it is not. Most of the questions have been centered around the topic of video interoperability, thanks in part to some generalized statements. There is currently very little information available about this new functionality, and as with anything not well understood it seems to be creating more confusion than warranted. Video Based Screen Sharing (VBSS) is a new Skype for Business client capability that has for the most part flown in under the radar.