# \&totalscenebitrate

Viewer-Side Option! ([`&view`](/advanced-settings/mixer-scene-parameters/view.md), [`&scene`](/advanced-settings/mixer-scene-parameters/scene.md), [`&room`](/advanced-settings/setup-parameters/room.md))

## Aliases

* `&tsb`
* `&maxtotalscenebitrate`
* `&mtsb`

## Options

Example: `&totalscenebitrate=4000`

| Value           | Description                             |
| --------------- | --------------------------------------- |
| (integer value) | max. video bitrate in kbps a scene uses |

## Details

Mainly added to help offer another way to optimize performance and limit inbound bandwidth used, since why not.

This is similar to [`&totalroombitrate`](/advanced-settings/video-bitrate-parameters/and-totalscenebitrate/totalroombitrate.md), but `&totalscenebitrate` applies to scenes and faux-room scenes instead. That is, it splits the total bitrate available for playback by the number of videos in the scene. It's a way to keep the inbound bitrate below a certain threshold. If [`&videobitrate`](/advanced-settings/video-bitrate-parameters/bitrate.md) is also used, [`&videobitrate`](/advanced-settings/video-bitrate-parameters/bitrate.md) becomes a max limit on any individual video, so you can set `&totalscenebitrate=6000` and [`&videobitrate=2000`](/advanced-settings/video-bitrate-parameters/bitrate.md), to keep all videos below 2-mbps each, but potentially go lower if more than 3 videos are present.

## Related

{% content-ref url="/pages/-MZdvtBaFUhrjd8ttCqN" %}
[\&totalroombitrate](/advanced-settings/video-bitrate-parameters/and-totalscenebitrate/totalroombitrate.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="/pages/K4uj8nuCO1AEmFbqLs7a" %}
[\&totalbitrate](/advanced-settings/video-bitrate-parameters/and-totalscenebitrate/and-totalbitrate.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="/pages/-MZdsHq8G6aE\_RlY7fWi" %}
[\&videobitrate](/advanced-settings/video-bitrate-parameters/bitrate.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}


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