Short recorded Q&A from a YouTube video about what to do when a single meeting participant has low bandwidth. Speakers recommend avoiding degrading everyone’s experience and instead adapting per-user: use simulcast or SVC so the low-bandwidth user receives a lower-resolution stream while others keep high resolution; further fallbacks include degrading that user to audio-only. The discussion also notes taking a holistic view (consider CPU, device, screen layout, location) when fitting each participant’s view to their constraints.
Here's a question for you, and we actually got that from people that asked that in one of the previous ones in a comment. What to do in a meeting where one user has a low bandwidth?
That's a good question. So I think I would rephrase it. So what do you want to avoid in that situation? Okay, because what you really want to avoid is degrading the experience for everyone in the meeting just because that one user has a bad connection. Okay, so what you're looking for is a solution which degrades the experience for that user, but only that user.
And that today is either simulcast or svc.
Yes. If you're looking at video encoding techniques to deal with that, simulcast and SVC are the way to adapt to that so that you can send a lower resolution to that user with low, low bandwidth and continue sending high resolution to others.
Yep.
And then you might need to go further and maybe degrade that user to audio only and so on.
Okay, so we need to take a holistic view towards a group meeting and then try to fit to each and every user in that meeting exactly the view that he needs that fits his bandwidth, but also his network. Well, network and bandwidth is the same. His CPU device location. What, the layout on the screen, the size of the screen, things like that?
