Low Bitrate? High Compression?

[Mafiu0]

Hello,

So I have tried connecting to my own room hosted with Parsec Soda and I noticed that the video quality looks very compressed/low bitrate. I have tried increasing the bandwidth limit in Parsec Soda but it doesn't seem to make much of a difference.

I do not think it is necessarily a bandwidth issue on my end because if I connect directly to my computer (through the parsec app) the video will be in very high quality and with solid ms (even while hosting a room on Parsec Soda).

Is there a setting I may be missing within Parsec Soda?

EDIT: just did another test with 2 guests only - the parsec client says the bitrate is around 3-5mbs, whereas in parsec soda I have set the bandwidth limit as 50mbs - something doesn't match up

[LoneWolf1987]

Same. No matter what bandwidth limit you set, When guests more than 2, they get around 2 mbps each, but must be 10 per guest (if i set bandwidth to 30 mbps for 3 guests).

[Mafiu0]

Yeah, it's almost as it defaults to the minimum bitrate regardless of the bandwidth limit you set. If I set it to 50mbs my friends (if they are two) should get 25mbs (more or less), but they get around 2-3mbs.

[CollinCodez]

The bandwidth Limit is just that: a limit. It is not a target bandwidth, it is a limit. Parsec will only use as much bandwidth as it actually needs.

Parsec also has automatic congestion control that will limit the bandwidth more when it encounters network issues and congestion, and the parsec SDK (which is what Parsec Soda uses to host on parsec) has not been updated to use the newer congestion algorithms that help using more bandwidth.

There is nothing that can be done on the end of Parsec Soda, it is a matter of ensuring you don't have network issues and waiting for the Parsec Team to update the Parsec SDK.