How to render only one remote participant without displaying local participant?

[eddielin0926]

I am trying to use ACS like watching video streaming. Therefore, I don't need the local participant VideoTile.
However, I cannot find a proper way to hide local participant while using VideoGallery or CallComposite .
Should I use VideoTile with the method render element along with StreamMedia, or is there any other recommended approach?

[JamesBurnside]

Hi @eddielin0926, you are correct; today you cannot hide the local preview from the CallComposite or VideoGallery. The reason this is so is for privacy concerns, we never want a user's camera to be active in a call but not have the user be aware of it. To the same privacy concern, the local tile also informs the user of their microphone's muted/unmuted status. This is great feedback feedback however and your scenario is very valid - we are looking into how we could still enforce a good level of privacy assurances while providing support for hiding the local preview.

You can build out your own VideoGallery experience using, as you mention, VideoTile with StreamMedia components. A good starting place for building this is to take a look at the code in RemoteVideoTile.