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# \&viewwidth

Does the same thing as \&scale but you pass the width in pixels

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

## Aliases

* `&vw`

## Options

Example: `&viewwidth=1920`

| Value           | Description           |
| --------------- | --------------------- |
| (value integer) | video width in pixels |

## Details

Added new viewer-side parameters that can be used in place of [`&scale`](/advanced-settings/video-parameters/scale.md): [`&viewheight=180`](/advanced-settings/video-parameters/and-viewheight.md) and `&viewwidth=320`, which effectively does the same thing as [`&scale`](/advanced-settings/video-parameters/scale.md), but instead you pass a resolution.

It's important to note, that due to flexibility to request width/heights that are not aspect-ratio compatible, and due to bitrate/quality resolution limitations, these values are just 'max' target resolution values; the actual resolution you get could be still less. They also do not impact the actual capture resolution of the remote sender's camera, so its purely for requesting a specific downscaled resolution. This command applies to all video elements in a view port, and it disables the auto-scaler functionality.

Similarly, also added the option to the IFRAME API to request different down-scaled resolutions dynamically, per connection, if you want greater programmatic control vs static URL options.

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## Related

{% content-ref url="/pages/AbxgsRXjG6dYeYXjuLsB" %}
[\&viewheight](/advanced-settings/video-parameters/and-viewheight.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="/pages/-MZdvi1ReqWtZ6G80iMX" %}
[\&scale](/advanced-settings/video-parameters/scale.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="/pages/BztXqHfF5EKjAMdanJrU" %}
[\&noscale](/advanced-settings/video-parameters/and-noscale.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}


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