Can't speak for other systems, but FWIW I work for Google and have been in VC meetings for much of the week.
Our internal Google Meet config is defaulting to SD video. I can manually set it to HD if I want, but it resets back to SD for the next meeting. On Fri, 20 Mar 2020, 08:39 Tom Worthington, <[email protected]> wrote: > There is likely to be a high demand for Internet access over the next > few months due to COVID19. So I suggest that video products be set to > limit bandwidth use by default. Video streaming and conference tools > adjust to the bandwidth available, but try to use *all* that bandwidth. > This makes them poor online citizens, like someone who fills their > shopping trolley with toilet paper, if you let them. ;-) > > On Thursday I took part in a webinar (video conference) on "COVID-19 and > the Household/Commercial Solar and Battery Storage Market", hosted by > the Smart Energy Council. I suggest other industry bodies and > professional societies follow this example. > > There were only a few brief dropouts in the audio (fewer than on ABC > Radio National that morning). This was with Zoom, which is not my > favorite product, as there is no way for participants to set the audio > or video quality to reduce bandwidth. But it is possible to reduce data > use to around 220 to 300 kbps by making the video window smaller. > > It would be good if the video products, such as Zoom, used a low > bandwidth mode with a small video window, by default. > > More at: > https://blog.tomw.net.au/2020/03/video-conference-on-covid-19-and.html > > > -- > Tom Worthington, MEd FHEA FACS CP IP3P http://www.tomw.net.au > +61(0)419496150 > TomW Communications Pty Ltd. PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia > Liability limited by a scheme approved under Prof. Standards Legislation > > Honorary Lecturer, Computer Science, Australian National University > https://cecs.anu.edu.au/research/profile/tom-worthington > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link > _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
