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mirdaki / ping

A cross-platform and blazingly fast Matrix client focused on group and gaming chat.
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Toggle VIdeo Settings #17

Open trymeouteh opened 3 years ago

trymeouteh commented 3 years ago

Please have a setting in the client to enable/disable video in all calls.

mirdaki commented 3 years ago

To clarify, what your asking for is to have a setting to always have it enabled or disabled?

Would having to explicitly enable video for each call (like clicking a camera button) meet what you're asking for?

trymeouteh commented 3 years ago

To clarify, what your asking for is to have a setting to always have it enabled or disabled?

Yeah a setting. Since Ping is going to be a gaming client, gamers dont use video chat when gaming with their friends, they only use their mic and text chat. Therefore if the client is going to support video which I don't think Ping needs to support video, it should be disabled by default and need to be enabled in the settings.

Would having to explicitly enable video for each call (like clicking a camera button) meet what you're asking for?

That can work but please make a setting on weather this video camera button is present in the client or not to prevent gamers from accidentally clicking on it.

I would prefer a setting in the client to enable/disable video chat and if the video chat is disabled to not have a camera button in the audio chat to toggle your camera on/off.

And I think Ping should not grab video from others in the chat even if another user is using video chat on Element for example since Ping should be a low bandwidth, fast gaming chat client and video takes up bandwidth unlike audio calls.

mirdaki commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the input! I fully agree voice chat should be a priority over video chat and both should have some user control over bandwidth. The UI design is still super rough, but I'll keep in mind this as it goes.