Screen sharing and audio

A colleague from Western Institute asked me this today - it's something others have asked so I thought I'd post the answer here.

"I am wanting to demonstrate PhotoStory by sharing my screen on Connect, but it seems audio in PhotoStory movie does not come through to connect. Have you had any experience with that?
When I play the PhotoStory back, I can hear the narration, but nobody else can. I had a similar problem the other day when I had a video playing on my desktop, shared my screen, and nobody could hear the audio from the video."

Screen/application sharing only shares the screen, not the sound unfortunately.

I’ve used Connect to show websites with sound - you could do the same with PhotoStory. Here's how...

Share the screen, plug in some good speakers, and hold the mike to the speakers - clumsy solution but it seems to do the job, everyone said they could hear clearly. Remember, you will need to set your audio playback so it plays through the speakers, not your headset.

If you have a video file – and it’s in the .FLV format – you can upload it into a Share Pod and it will play with sound for everyone. If it’s not in that format you can convert it at Zamzar or Movavi.