On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 11:13:54 -0500 Michael Stone <mst...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 10:59:36AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > >I don't know how to evaluate this. But still, if the camera is > >reporting 720p, shouldn't the applications default to that? > > The optical quality on most small web cams is so bad that increasing the > resolution just means significantly more bandwidth is used to produce a > picture that's visually indistinguishable from the lower resolution > version. Most video chat applications will downsample a high res image > anyway, so generating a high res stream is just making more work. There > are cameras and applications where the increased resolution matter, but > they're the exception IME. Very interesting, thanks. Zoom does offer standard HD and even FHD in some cases: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115002595343-Video-enhancements#h_01EEEKVD06W1QDZ5GXCS2B9KYN https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/207347086-Group-HD Celejar
