Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?
by isignal on Sunday May 17, 2020 @11:39PM
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Don’t think it can be an MCU box. You can select an individual stream from the grid to make it larger almost instantly. The individual feeds can display both as grid and a horizontal row. I’m assuming they send individual feeds and the client can ask for feeds at different predefined resolutions.
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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?
by nv-vn on Monday May 18, 2020 @12:25AM
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Without having used Zoom much I can't definitively say how it works, but I've used BlueJeans quite a bit and noticed compression artifacts in various parts of the UI (e.g. text underneath each video source). That means BlueJeans is definitely muxing video sources and it really does not have a noticeable delay when changing the view. Since each video is already so compressed I think they can get away with sending you really low bitrate streams during the transition and you'll barely notice.