On Fri, 1 Jan 2021 12:41:38 -0500 Michael Stone <mst...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 09:50:00AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > >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: > > "Note: Due to recent events with COVID-19, meetings in 720p-quality > video are only available to Pro account users or higher, and only for > meetings with a maximum of 2 participants; 1080p quality is for > special-use cases currently." Yes - that's what it says on the page that I linked to. And I have a Pro account at work, and I often have extended one-on-one meetings with a total of exactly two participants ;) https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115002595343-Video-enhancements#h_01EEEKVD06W1QDZ5GXCS2B9KYN Celejar
