Video quality settings for Flash webcam
I am working on an application for streaming video to Flash and was told that I need to add tools to select the quality. Requirements of "low", "medium" and "high" quality. I'm trying to figure out what quality settings are actually applied for this (frame rate and video quality settings). I feel like there must be some standard for this, as I see controls like this quite often, but I couldn't find a link to it on the internet.
Does anyone know of any default settings for "low", "medium" and "high" quality for webcam streaming? Or even a good reference as a starting point for coming up with my own values?
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Your best bet is to simply pinpoint the bandwidth points and then look at your codec to determine the best quality for that point. Then you can give each of these bandwidth points a "normal" name. as:
- 56k is 320x240 @ 8fps and is "low quality"
- 256k - 640x480 @ 8fps and is "medium quality"
- 512k is 640x480 @ 24fps and is "high quality".
This is just my guess.
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I ended up coming up with some values, although they are probably not standard.
I realized that I was asking a question that my needs were probably substandard as my resolution was fixed at 160x120 as the size of the component that was viewing the video. I just used 100, 80 and 60 video quality settings for different settings. It ended up much easier than I expected (I originally thought about dropping at frame rate and resolution as well as quality, but it turned out to be unnecessary).
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