Threshold for poor video quality

Daniel808

Hello,

we want to display information of the video quality in a daily session. We hit the daily /log API to display information for packet loss, upload and download bitrate. As the quality drops under a certain threshold, we want to display a "poor connection" banner.

What threshold is considered a poor connection?

This is what I found so far:

packet loss: > 1%

upload: < 1Mbps (SD), < 3-4Mbps (HD)

download: < 1Mbps (SD), < 3-4Mbps (HD)

Are this some reasonable breakpoints? There a about 4-6 people in the video conference. Does this mean, we need to multiply the download rate by the users in SFU mode?

daily_joey

Hi @Daniel808 , we have a client-side API specifically for this, getNetworkStats():

https://docs.daily.co/reference/daily-js/instance-methods/get-network-stats

The method returns a qualitative and quantitative quality rating based on the measured send-side packet loss for an individual client.

There's also a set of events that you can use for notification purposes:

https://docs.daily.co/reference/daily-js/events/quality-events

Let us know if those work for what you're looking to do!

Daniel808

Thank you for the hint :)