I want to send (on the same transport) webcam video using h264 (to take advantage of HW acceleration) and screen share using VP8 (since it looks better). I managed to “trick” chrome to use h264 as the first option (for the webcam) but what I really want is the ability to control the payloadType whi…

[image] mediasoup-client 3.6.0 released with per Producer codec selection Announcements mediasoup-client 3.6.0 has been released. It comes with the ability to choose a desired codec per Producer. Sometimes it’s useful to use, for instance, H264 for webcam and VP8 for scre…

[image] erlichmen: I managed to “trick” chrome to use h264 as the first option (for the webcam) Why a trick? You don’t need to do any trick for that, just set H264 (with proper configuration) in the Router mediaCodecs as first codec and Chrome will use it without any trick. [image] erlich…

The problem with two devices is that currently we have (mediasoup) device=user model, extending that a user can have multiple devices will required a lot of refactoring. If you point me in the right direction I don’t mind publishing a PR to support that.

Adding the ability to select a codec for each Producer in the same sendTransport would also require a huge refactor in mediasoup-client. IMHO more than a refactor in your app for each user to hold two devices. [image] erlichmen: If you point me in the right direction I don’t mind publishing a P…

Even if I spend every second of the day I wouldn’t have made the change you suggested to my application :slight_smile: Good feature! passing the donation link to finance (It’s a big corp so it will take some time)

Great :slight_smile: Please remember using the feature with mediasoup-client 3.6.2 (a bug was fixed yesteday). I’m using it right now and it works fine.

Using diffrent codecs for video and screen share

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