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Meetings#

A Meeting is a temporary session within a room where participants join in real-time to communicate, share content, and collaborate. It starts when the first participant joins and ends when the last one leaves — or when a moderator explicitly ends it for all participants. Unlike rooms (which are persistent), a meeting only exists while at least one participant is connected. The same room can host many meetings over time, but only one at a time.

How to join a meeting#

A meeting starts as soon as a member opens a valid room access link and presses the join button into an empty room. You can learn everything about how access to a room is granted in Room Access.

OpenVidu Meet users can access a room to join a meeting directly from the "Rooms" page:

Users can also copy a room access link and share it with other members:

The access link for an identified guest is unique and personal. It can be copied from the "Room Members" tab of the room details page and delivered privately to that individual.

In this section#

  • Meeting lifecycle — the series of views a room member moves through, from opening a room access link until the meeting ends: Lobby, Device, Meeting, Recordings and End.
  • Live Captions — real-time speech-to-text transcription powered by the OpenVidu Speech Processing Agent.
  • Smart Layout — dynamic layout that adapts automatically to the number of active participants.
  • Role Management — promote participants to moderator during a meeting to give them special permissions, or demote them back to their original permissions.
  • E2E Encryption — end-to-end encrypted audio, video and chat so only participants can decrypt the content.
  • Virtual Background — blur or replace the camera background before or during a meeting.