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Originally Posted by Mutt
Not so strange, MFC's video quality is terrible, Streamate on the other hand is on par with Twitch. Why would MFC's video quality be worse if the technology is basically the same?
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The site server only forwards the video it received by the model "as is", and the player simply play this "as is", so the different is only in the model's pc and internet. If internet speed and pc is super fast, the different is only in the settings of the encoder, really, like the width * height in pixels, the framerate, the quality/compression (0% to 99%), the key frame, the total bandwidth to use...
The video settings... it could be that MFC set these to lower quality for some reason such as cause lower traffic (saves cost), if really their video is less nice than some others. The H264 encoding (I don't think any still uses H263, that's outdated in flash since 2011), got so many parameters you can change in flash player encoder, and even more if you use external encoders.
For example, just limited to screen resolution, I could set site-wide a 1024x768 size, but this would make 1 frame per minute to Philippines models. Setting site-wide to 320x240 would make fast the Philippines but low quality the others with faster speed. In fact we set the filipina accounts at 320x240 while the russian at 640x480 etc. editing the per-model parameters in accounts.
The best really is to allow to change the encoding parameters model by model by the model, and/or by the user. In fact the model and user may have different video taste too, ultimately the user is who pays. Without give a dozen of parameters to edit which is overkill to most (even to who invented H254 format himself), in chatgf we got a quality = low, med, high switch (3 options) that both model and user can touch, so if the guy sees video slow at "high", clicks med or low, or vice versa a guy who prefers detail over the framerate or picked a girl with super fast internet and PC, may pick "high" over medium, or whatever they wish even if they're completely wrong and making the video look obviously worst, as long as they're happy with the video.
Let me add however, that the cam girls doing the most money are not those with the best video. In fact some time it is the opposite, very amateurish and blurred videos from integrated cam of notebook in cell phone slow connection and she talks 60 minutes with a guy at $3 per minute, amazing but that's how we do money in cams, believe it or not.