Video Conferencing Application - Audio and Video

Question

I use Flex and FMS to develop a video conferencing application. This technology has helped me a lot and is still so good. I use DynamicStream to automatically switch incoming streams to the corresponding bit depending on the available bandwidth. I was wondering if in any case I can give DynamicStream the ability to increase the bandwidth for audio (obviously due to the loss of some frames from the video).

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

In general, I think this is a bad idea, you should start the stream at an acceptable bit rate and stick to it, the video offset is for some reason transferred to the eyes, but the offset of the audio bitrates on the fly is very noticeable and causes a pretty big shift. For video conferencing using an audio channel with mono-channel encoding with a decent bitrate, it will occupy about 1% of the data compared to video, so it is not even controlled, it just does not make sense and is a bad end user experience. A good way to check this out is to take a video with someone talking, encode sections of audio at different bit rates and splic a hole together. Pay attention to the shaking during the shift. For some reason, the human brain reacts sharply to changes in sound quality compared to changes in video quality ... perhaps because although we cannot always see everything around, we can always hear it. In any case, you spend your time much better when it counts: video! Just my $ .02