Re: [rtcweb] Alternative decision process in RTCWeb

[Randell Jesup <[e-mail]>]

On 12/2/2013 5:59 PM, Martin Thomson wrote:
> On 2 December 2013 14:52, Bjoern Hoehrmann <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> I myself would not voluntarily watch low-framerate or extremely blurry
>> video if I do not have to.
> I love playing devil's advocate...  But you need to remind yourself
> that a) you do the audio equivalent just about every time you make a
> phone call on the PSTN (which I grant, you might not do, the world is
> moving on), and b) those specific problems can be addressed with the
> application of more bandwidth or by having teeny postage-stamp videos.

Agreed.  And prior experience with hardware videophones on DSL lines 
(128K max up) is that fuzzy is ok, even errors are ok (if recovery is 
fast), but framerate rules for user perception of conversation. QCIF 
30FPS @ 40-60Kbps was perceived by users as "better" than CIF @ 10fps @ 
150Kbps (more or less), though it has 1/2 -1/3 or less bits-per-pixel, 
so long as you don't scale up too far (scaled up to 70+% of a 7" LCD 
(~854x480ish) was ok, 3-4x scale).  That may be an extreme example, but 
you get the idea.

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