&novideo
Disables all video playback on the local computer
Viewer-Side Option! (&view, &scene, &room)
Aliases
&nv&hidevideo
Details
&novideo disables all video playback on the local computer. Useful for reducing the CPU and network load on other connect peers if voice-chat is sufficient.
Join a group-room as audio-only, to limit load on the guests.
When used together with &noaudio (&novideo&noaudio), prevents guest room member from seeing or hearing other member's audio or video feeds.
Useful for directors who may wish to only issue commands or text chat, but not need to see video or audio.
You can pass a comma separated list of stream IDs that will be excluded, so that they specifically will play video. ?novideo=guest1a,guest2a will only allow video from guest1a and guest2a to play.
Video tracks are blocked and do not form any connection when using peer-to-peer, not taking up bandwidth or system load, but they also cannot be re-enabled without reconnecting. Video tracks from WHIP-based sources, Iframes, or some non-standard sources may still allow video tracks to connect, using up bandwidth, but will not be rendered. Check the connection stats for that stream ID to confirm.
Use &broadcast or &showonly if you want to disable all videos except any stream IDs listed.
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