Set Video Quality - Javascript

• Set Video Quality feature allows participants to set other participant's video quality during the meeting.

note

This page uses the following asynchronous methods. Refer to their API reference for the errors each Promise may reject with, and handle these rejections appropriately based on your use case.

• setQuality()

• Participant class provides the setQuality() method to set participant's video quality.

const participant = meeting.participants.get("PARTICIPANT_ID");

const onPressed = async () => {
  // Set low quality
  try {
    await participant.setQuality("low");
  } catch (err) {
    console.error("setQuality failed:", err);
  }
  // Set medium quality
  try {
    await participant.setQuality("med");
  } catch (err) {
    console.error("setQuality failed:", err);
  }
  // Set high quality
  try {
    await participant.setQuality("high");
  } catch (err) {
    console.error("setQuality failed:", err);
  }
};

note

If the quality is set to high, but there is not enough network bandwidth available, quality will reduce untill the newtwork quality improves.

Event

video-quality-changed

• video-quality-changed is a callback which gets triggered whenever a participant's video quality changes.

• currentQuality and prevQuality can have values HIGH | MEDIUM | LOW.

Example

participant.on("video-quality-changed", (data) => {
  const { currentQuality, prevQuality } = data;
  //
});