Dec 30 2021 10:51 AM
Am I alone in finding the video quality for screen sharing borderline unacceptable? It seems to cap out at 1080P with very strong compression at a low framerate. My company are all software developers with high end computers and gigabit internet connections yet we can't screen share a lot of the stuff we're doing in Teams due to the compression killing contrast between text elements and the low framerate making it difficult to follow.
For reference, the workstation I'm using is a Ryzen 9 3900X with 64GB of RAM and a RTX 2080Ti with fibre gigabit coming in right under the desk and my colleagues' setups are similar.
Can Microsoft enable a higher quality video mode to make Teams competitive with less convenient streaming software?
Dec 30 2021 11:24 AM
Thanks for the feedback. You are right that the current limit is 1080p resolution as per Microsoft documentation.
Prepare your organization's network for Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs
There has been calls for this online for a long time about going beyond 1080p - for example, to 4k. Microsoft restricted it for a while to 720p because of platform scaling, but I think we are at the point it needs to happen, especially as cameras like the Brio support it.
I have raised a feedback for you here. I am sure there was one previously on Uservoice but this doesn't seem to have been moved over. I would recommend voting up and getting as many to do so to get it in front of the product team
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
Dec 30 2021 11:45 AM
Dec 30 2021 11:49 AM
@Ed Woodrick Yeah, it's a 34" 3440x1440. I set it to 16:9 and zoom things in on my screen whenever I am sharing though. Honestly the 1080P cap on resolution is fine, it's more that the whole thing doesn't seem to want to go over ~4mbps of bandwidth which results in very low framerate and bad video compression.
Dec 30 2021 11:50 AM
Jan 05 2022 10:08 AM
Zoom fully supports screen sharing in 4K monitors
Jan 05 2022 10:40 PM
Jan 06 2022 08:41 AM
If sharing between two 4K monitors (each user has a 4K monitor) with high band width (very common these days), why does Teams lower the resolution to 1920 x 1080? Everything appears blurry and hard to read. Try it with Zoom and you will see how much better it looks.
Jan 06 2022 08:07 PM
Jan 31 2022 03:16 AM
Mar 10 2022 02:37 AM - edited Mar 10 2022 02:40 AM
NO! YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
I'm working also for a huge software company and most of us have screens with a higher resolution (higher than 1080p) And doing a longer screen sharing session with Microsoft Teams is really a pain! The shared screen is so blurry. Compared to Zoom the screen sharing experience of Microsoft Teams is simply horrible. For me it is unbelievable that not more Microsoft Teams users are complaining about that.
Apr 26 2022 09:16 AM
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