We recently changed our microphone sampling rate from 8 kHz to 22 kHz. To give you some context, the telephone uses an 8 kHz sampling rate so we now sound much better than a phone call. I wish we would have done this earlier because it makes a HUGE difference! Everything sounds so crisp and satisfying. It’s like upgrading from a one-channel integrated laptop speaker to a Klipsch ProMedia Ultra 5.1 system (An awesome speaker system BTW, totally worth it).
Also, we significantly lowered our video bandwidth without really affecting image quality. This means we can handle many more participants than we could before. Additionally, conferences now feel more responsive and there is minimal loading time when you join an existing conference.
I’m going to take another pass on the participant module and put in few more features such as a microphone volume control on the left. I might add the abililty to manually change the video and audio qualities as well.
We’ll have some other big news for you hopefully tomorrow. So stay posted!
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