[PLUG] Zoom and Debian Buster...

Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtmann at gmail.com
Sat Apr 11 18:42:52 UTC 2020


On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 9:34 AM Mike C. <mconnors1 at gmail.com> wrote:

" 1. Drop the frame rate / resolution of the frame rate
of the Zoom call down to the lowest rate"

How does one do that? I do not see any controls when I launch Zoom.
Thanks,
-Denis

On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 9:34 AM Mike C. <mconnors1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> > . There are lots of reasons why a video could freeze like that and not
> all
> > of them are network related.
> >
>
> True. I often find myself looking at problems through the network lens
> first from decades of other IT staff, employees and customers blaming the
> network for their computing woes.
>
>
> > If you are able to connect at all, then it's unlikely that your firewall
> > is the source of the problem.
> >
>
> Also true. However, if the firewall is iptables running on a computer it's
> conceivable that the computer's resources could be overburdened and
> affecting traffic flowing through the firewall and the video stream
> freezes.
>
> I suspect that Zoom is probably fairly resource intensive. Here's how'd I
> approach the problem. 1. Drop the frame rate / resolution of the frame rate
> of the Zoom call down to the lowest rate and see if that helps. 2. Check
> the resource utilization on both end points and the ip tables machine
> during a Zoom call.
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