Re: Zoom quality issues in BiDi meetings

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On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 4:04 AM James Graham <james@hoppipolla.co.uk> wrote:

> On 08/10/2020 08:24, Mathias Bynens wrote:
> > FWIW, I also heard Brandon turn into a very loud robot for a few seconds
> > — it’s not just you. Furthermore, I didn’t hear any meeting audio the
> > first time I dialed in, but after I refreshed and re-joined the meeting
> > for some reason it worked. Shengfa had the same issue. And I think we
> > all experienced /crackled foolip/.
>
> I believe the Zoom web app doesn't use the normal WebRTC media stack,
> but does its own encoding/decoding using WASM (see [1] for quite a lot
> of technical details here). So it's possible that there's a performance
> issue with Blink/v8 that could be investigated and fixed (but I don't
> know if things are better in other browsers).
>
> I don't have a strong opinion on which solution we use, but I will note
> that I have had very few quality issues with Zoom using the native app
> (although it has a surprising number of UI issues), but the Google Meet
> web app has been more hit and miss and sometimes leads to high CPU usage
> and degraded audio quality exactly like we saw yesterday. So I'm
> skeptical that there's a solution that will be problem-free for everyone.
>
> [1] https://webrtchacks.com/zoom-avoids-using-webrtc/
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