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by mikepavone 703 days ago
> Meet and Zoom–my understanding is video bitrates for those services are lower than for e.g. Netflix

For a given quality, bitrate will generally be higher in RTC apps (though quality may be lower in general depending on the context and network conditions obviously) because of tradeoffs between encoding latency and efficiency. However, RTC apps generally already try to underutilize links because queuing is bad for latency and latency matters a lot for the RTC case.