Ability to control the quality of the video natively in watchparty's video player

[KarthikRaju391]

Currently, the native video player doesn't allow the users to change the video quality. It would be easier for users with limited data to enjoy the watch party if they are allowed to control the video quality of their screens.

[howardchung]

Which watch method specifically are you trying to make quality changeable for?

[KarthikRaju391]

When watching with a URL or a YouTube link.

[howardchung]

This could probably be done for YouTube as it provides multiple transcoded streams--but not for URLs as we don't have the ability to generate multiple streams from the source URL

[oXyiGYJ]

How does it handle the video quality now? Does it just choose it based on what the server can handle, or just the highest option?

I am not sure if this is the case, but there might be a way to have it choose based on the user that is viewing it?

[howardchung]

YouTube probably auto-determines the quality to use for each user based on their network conditions.

If watching from URL, everyone just gets the same video stream from the source