Video bitrate in rooms
How to control the video bitrate inside of a room
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How to control the video bitrate inside of a room
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This guide will show you how to control and set up the bitrate in rooms as a director and as a guest.
Every guest is viewing video streams in a room with a combined bitrate of 500-kbps. If there is only one video stream, the guest will view the video on 500-kbps. Two video streams: 250-kbps per video.
As a director of a room you can control the total room bitrate dynamically.
The default setting for the room is now 6000-kbps. You can decrease it dynamically though if the guests have any problems.
3 guests in a scene -> &videobitrate=3000
The bitrate of each guest will be 3000-kbps.
3 guests in a scene -> &totalscenebitrate=3000
The bitrate of each guest will be 1000-kbps.
There are more parameters to control the bitrate. You can find them here:
You can control the total room bitrate also with a URL parameter:
If you add to the guest's link all the other guests can view the video of the guest with a bitrate of 2000-kbps. So three other guests watching the video stream of the guest -> 6000-kbps outgoing bitrate. limits any guest viewer in the group chat room from pulling the video stream at more than the specified bitrate value.
You can also use on the guest's URL if you want to have different settings for each guest. So adding &totalroombitrate=4000 to a guest's URL, the guest can view all video streams in the room with a combined bitrate of 4000-kbps.
If you use on the guest's URL, the guest can change the total room bitrate dynamically via a slider. If you add &controlroombitrate&totalroombitrate=4000 to the guest's URL the guest can change the bitrate between 0 and 4000-kbps. It doesn't affect what other guest's are viewing.
When adding &broadcast&totalroombitrate=5000 to the director's URL the guests can only see the video of the director with a bitrate of 5000-kbps. So they get pretty good video quality. If you have three guests in the room the outgoing bitrate fot the director is 15000-kbps, so it's pretty high.
If you want a guest to appear in scenes (for example in OBS) but you don't want other guests to see their video stream you can add &roombitrate=0 to the guest's URL. only affects the bitrate in the room, not in scenes.
Adding to the guest's URL will allow to them to put 80 % of their available bandwidth into the video stream. This is useful for high quality gaming streams for example.
For scenes in OBS or other softwares ( or ) use to specify the bitrate per video stream or to get a combined bitrate for all videos in the scene.
If you are using on the director's or guest's URL remember that you control the bitrate via on the sender's side.
&totalroombitrate=6000
