In the process of isolation, video call programs have become important to communicate with our friends, family and others we love. Among all the options, one of the most popular features is Google Duo, which continues to improve on a large scale.
If a few days ago we knew that they had increased the limit of users per video to 12, today we know some good news, and that from now on phones will use very little mobile data. How much is it?
Google uses the industry's best codec to use small data
You may not have thought about it, but the internal functionality of the video call is very complicated. We're not talking about the simple fact that the camera captures the video and sends it to the internet, but how the infrastructure must be designed to support millions of video calls simultaneously.
Of all the activities we do online, video streaming consumes most of the data. In the case of video calls, usage goes up dramatically, because you have to send and receive video at the same time.
Solving this exists pressure codecs, algorithms responsible for coding and embedding videos. The better the codec, the higher the quality it can maintain with less data usage.
One of the most recent codecs in the industry is the AV1 codec, which is a codec that is supported by many technology companies and that several years after it was introduced it came into effect. This codec has already been introduced by Netflix to maintain the same quality while using very little data.
For Google data, the difference in bandwidth quality of 30 Kbps is less, which means that from now on video calls for this service will start spending less.
On the other hand, we also have a new function to take a picture during a video call. Not a disturbing feature, but appreciated.
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