Teams Live Events- Bitrate woes for Live Event and recording
I've been trying to find ways to improve the Teams Live events performance, mainly video quality / bitrate. However, I fear that there's a limit above which the quality cannot be improved. I even tested with an eCDN provider but viewers can never get more that 720p@1.5Mbit/s. I am puzzled. How can 720p@1.5MBit/s ever be enough? Even on a 14" Notebook it's almost impossible to read Excel table data let alone viewing it on a 27" or above screen. Moreoever, the Live Event recording suffers even worse. It's usually around 600KBit/s with 66Kbit/s for audio. This is way from being contemporary. I feel there's something fundamentally wrong and was wondering if it's still something wrong in our configuration or if you have the same experiences. Would love to hear your feedback.
Large gallery video quality problems
Every week we have an internal IT Jour Fixe and as long as having the small gallery the image quality was ok. Not great, but ok. But with the large gallery and the possibility to view all colleagues (around 40 people) together the video quality is so bad, that individual people are mostly not recognizeable. I'm sure this is not standard, but i still wanted to ask you what is your experience with image quality in large gallery or together mode? By the way, the bandwidth is not used to full capacity.
Download highest quality of Stream video
I was wondering if anyone has seen this behavior before. When watching a Stream video (a recording of a meeting) in the browser, the quality is great and there is no lag between audio and video. However, when I try to download the video, the quality of the downloaded version appears to be worse than the browser version's quality. The only reason that this is especially frustrating is that Stream does not yet support external sharing of videos, so a video that we have made for some external partners must be downloaded and shared. The quality of the downloaded video does not look great and is not up to the quality that we would want to share with external users. To my understanding, videos in Stream are transcoded into several different quality formats, so is there any way to export the highest quality encoded version?Teams video quality around 1 Mbps in the EMEA region
Since Corona we have noticed very poor video quality (1Mbps). We understand you had a capacity issue and had to set this limit. The limit has been lifted in other regions but not in EMEA. We are paying for this service and use it a lot. We have large meeting rooms based on this and we are getting a lot of negative feedback from our users because if the low video quality. People are now pushing us towards Cisco Webex and we will be installing the first couple of Webex meeting rooms next month. You owe your customers a deadline and some more details about this. And no this is not an issue in our end, we have had support cases with Microsoft and have had this verified.
