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Thore Cimbal f13c4b43cd i18n: add German translations for camera/screen share quality settings
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The camera/screen share MediaQualitySettings labels (moved to the Video
tab in the previous commit) had zero German translations - the en/app.json
source had all 10 keys, de/app.json had none, so German-locale users
would have just seen the English fallback text. Added proper German
strings, inserted alphabetically matching the file's existing convention.
'Bildschirmfreigabe' matches the term already used elsewhere in this
same locale file for screen sharing.
2026-07-28 22:53:14 +02:00
Thore Cimbal f61650c09c feat: move camera/screen share quality settings to Video tab
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Previously these were only accessible under the "Developer" settings
tab, gated behind an explicit "Developer mode" toggle in Preferences -
functionally not developer-only at all (just resolution/framerate/
bitrate/codec pickers), just accidentally buried two clicks deep behind
a checkbox most users would never find or think to enable.

Extracted the MediaQualitySettings component out of
DeveloperSettingsTab.tsx into its own file and moved both usages
(camera + screen share) into the existing "Video" settings tab, visible
to all users without any special mode. DeveloperSettingsTab keeps
everything else (audio processing, connection stats, etc.) unchanged.

Verified: full project typecheck clean, production embedded build
succeeds.
2026-07-28 22:46:19 +02:00
Thore Cimbal e5ddebf427 feat: Try h264 instead of vp8 - compatible with classic simulcast, hardware-accelerated on more devices 2026-07-28 16:17:04 +02:00
Thore Cimbal 7741180ae3 feat: Add 720p simulcast middle layer, note VP9/SVC incompatibility
Default was only [180p, 360p] simulcast fallback layers - a big
quality cliff straight to blocky 360p on minor network hiccups instead
of gracefully stepping down from the 1440p top layer. Added a 720p
middle rung. Also documented the likely real reason forcing video_codec:
vp9 broke calls (2026-07-28): LiveKit uses SVC for vp9/av1, not classic
simulcast, but buildPublishOptions() always builds simulcast-shaped
layers regardless of codec - needs a code fix before retrying vp9.
2026-07-28 16:06:07 +02:00
Thore Cimbal f845d81e95 fix: Remove forced VP9 codec preference - broke calls in production
Setting video_codec: vp9 resulted in no audio/video being transmitted
in real calls (2026-07-28), despite server-side codec regression
fallback to VP8 appearing to work in LiveKit SFU logs. Root cause not
further isolated beyond this. Leaving video_codec unset (defaults to
vp8) with the same 1440p/60fps/bitrate bump confirmed working.
2026-07-28 01:46:06 +02:00
Thore Cimbal 83db52242e feat: add media_quality config for ThreadNet (1440p/60fps, VP9)
Sets higher default video quality ceiling (up to 1440p/60fps camera,
1440p/30fps screen share, VP9 preferred codec) via the media_quality
config block introduced in element-hq/element-call#3736. These are
seeded defaults users can still adjust in Settings, not hard limits.
Bumped embedded package to @sorb/threadnet-call-embedded.
2026-07-28 00:55:31 +02:00