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Naive (and perhaps stupid) question here, why don't you request just the 720p feed from each participant and then rescale the streams as clients need them?

• endgame 7y ago
  The server would have to downscale the received stream. That's at least one round of downscaling for each participant, possibly more if you want to send different quality versions of the same stream down to different participants.
  • folmar 7y ago
    And while your device is quite capable of rescaling your stream -- even a lowest-tier smartphone will do it with no strain on its GPU -- its much more of a strain on the server to rescale 100's/1000's of stream simultaneously.
    • nerpderp82 7y ago
      Ram bandwidth is easier to manage and provision than physical bandwidth.
    • littlestymaar 7y ago
      Additionally: AFAIK you can't easily rescale an encoded stream: you need to decode it, rescale it and then re-encode it. For every single stream! That would be horribly computationally expensive.