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Originally Posted by Ajay213
This is the important part, cams.com, streammate and probably others call it 'HD', but the model is only sending out a sub 1Mbps stream of 640x480 into an Adobe Media Server. The quality is better than the 'norm', but it's far from HD.
From a technical side 'true' HD simple isn't going to be realistic for a number of years, 1920x1080 at 7-20Mbps, the average cam model doesn't have an internet connection with that kind of upload bandwidth, the average sub $100 web cam isn't going to produce a nice full resolution imagine, etc.
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Actually 99% of cam sites considers 320x240 as normal, and 640x480 as HD, as you said.
The difference it can be seen especially if going fullscreen or enlarge video, but marketing as HD a 640x480 it is quite misleading.
We at tubecamgirl.com do not even care to label HD those streams in 640x480, simply we list together 320x240 and 640x480 ones, actually the 320x240 are becoming rare in most sites anyway.
About 1920x1080 it is possible today, as long as a few things are considered. Especially that 99.99% of live models and studios send the same video to 2 or more sites at same time.
We made some tests with studios with upload bandwidth of 5000bkps+ with HDMI-connected sony cams AND with high end Logitech cams, who capture and sends at 1920x1080. So in most cases the stream (H264 codec of flash 11+ with proper settings) it would be fast enough to be called live. But you could see the difference only if you put that in fullscreen on a 20 inches monitor really. And since while sending such a stream the pc was very busy, the same stream couid not be sent to other sites via splitcam even in 640x480, without make all slower, the 1920x1080 stream especially.
So it is working but not worth as too few final users see the difference, and the model/studio can not profit from split-camming the video to 2+ sites as they always do.
We made some tests at 800x600 and that is more ok, but some logitech cams will capture it slow, making some blurring on movements (does not depend by pc's cpu or bandwidth in upload it seems), so we prefer to keep 640x480 default as that's pretty supported.
In fact every different cam and split-cam and connection situation should have different settings - a setting per model (until she updates or changes anything on her end) to make sure it works... so is that worth to tweak... for model to show a few more pixels to guys who may not even enlarge the video vindow enough?