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Nor expensive data environments. The NPR One app used to chew through a few hundred mb of data in "caching" every time you started it. No way to restrict this

Nor expensive data environments. The NPR One app used to chew through a few hundred mb of data in "caching" every time you started it. No way to restrict this function to wifi only. And no, you can't select bit rates. Also Zoom has little ability to minimize the audio or video data usage (but I've learned you can reduce how much of others video is sent to you by reducing the window size). Just wish I could set myself to 480p to be present but not destroy my data while working at the cabin.

0xFF0123 3y ago
I always found zoom much better at saving bits than other video conferencing systems. The fact that when you intermittently dropped out you catch up on the sped up audio always seemed neat (although I'm unsure if that was an intended feature, or just a side effect).
- szundi 3y ago
  Pretty sure intended
- Scoundreller 3y ago
  > I always found zoom much better at saving bits than other video conferencing systems. Likely true. Zoom doesn't chew up much bandwidth. I always find it funny when people think they need to upgrade their home internet bandwidth because a family "works & studies from home". Unless you're up/downloading huge media files, several instances of Zoom and virtual desktops will consume less than a 4k Netflix stream.
lostlogin 3y ago
> Just wish I could set myself to 480p to be present but not destroy my data while working at the cabin. Would this be achieved by plugging in a crappy camera and only giving that to Zoom?
a1o 3y ago
MS Teams is terrible at this too, I need it to only send me audio and ignore video, because a lot of times I am at sea with poor connection - these are company ships, so it's needed for a lot of folks at work...
- mynameisvlad 3y ago
  This is very much possible in the desktop app, although apparently the position of the feature has changed at least once: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/all/how-do-i-turn-off-incoming-video-in-teams-desktop/3070123b-008e-45a4-b021-1269ab3c3723 https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/all/how-do...
oefrha 3y ago
No idea if there’s a native way to do this in Zoom since I don’t have that problem, but if you’re concerned about your upload bitrate, you can use OBS to downsample your camera and configure Zoom to use OBS’s virtual camera instead.
phh 3y ago
In India on TVs, (where people use 4g to watch content) Google added a data saver mode in Android TV. They just shape the trafic down (to 500kBps iirc?). I guess that was easier than trying to convince app developers to reduce their data usage on a system flag. That's stupid for a lot of reasons, but I guess in your case that would work.

0xFF0123 3y ago

I always found zoom much better at saving bits than other video conferencing systems. The fact that when you intermittently dropped out you catch up on the sped up audio always seemed neat (although I'm unsure if that was an intended feature, or just a side effect).

szundi 3y ago
Pretty sure intended
Scoundreller 3y ago
> I always found zoom much better at saving bits than other video conferencing systems. Likely true. Zoom doesn't chew up much bandwidth. I always find it funny when people think they need to upgrade their home internet bandwidth because a family "works & studies from home". Unless you're up/downloading huge media files, several instances of Zoom and virtual desktops will consume less than a 4k Netflix stream.

lostlogin 3y ago

> Just wish I could set myself to 480p to be present but not destroy my data while working at the cabin. Would this be achieved by plugging in a crappy camera and only giving that to Zoom?

a1o 3y ago

MS Teams is terrible at this too, I need it to only send me audio and ignore video, because a lot of times I am at sea with poor connection - these are company ships, so it's needed for a lot of folks at work...

mynameisvlad 3y ago
This is very much possible in the desktop app, although apparently the position of the feature has changed at least once: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/all/how-do-i-turn-off-incoming-video-in-teams-desktop/3070123b-008e-45a4-b021-1269ab3c3723 https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/all/how-do...

oefrha 3y ago

No idea if there’s a native way to do this in Zoom since I don’t have that problem, but if you’re concerned about your upload bitrate, you can use OBS to downsample your camera and configure Zoom to use OBS’s virtual camera instead.

phh 3y ago

In India on TVs, (where people use 4g to watch content) Google added a data saver mode in Android TV. They just shape the trafic down (to 500kBps iirc?). I guess that was easier than trying to convince app developers to reduce their data usage on a system flag. That's stupid for a lot of reasons, but I guess in your case that would work.