File sharing, tasks, and polling. Sharing best practices for building any app with .NET. It's a just 2,2Mb mp4 file, this should be no problem? Please MS fix this asap. TERRIBLE!!! Removing just the 640x360 resolution fixed the issue. Windows 10 (version 1803 or later) can try to fix this automatically, so apps dont appear blurry. Unlimited group meetings for up to 60 minutes. To turn off background effects, select . Thank you! Thank you guys so much for your thoughts, ideas and support. Ifan app still appears blurry, you can try to use a different high-DPI compatibility setting for that app instead of the Let Windows try to fix apps so theyre not blurry setting. In my understanding, we recommend you check if your bandwidth is sufficient. but even after hours it is available at Stream with 360p only. What are the system requirements for background effects in Teams? Best practices and the latest news on Microsoft FastTrack, The employee experience platform to help people thrive at work, Expand your Azure partner-to-partner network, Bringing IT Pros together through In-Person & Virtual events. @jsquaredzI just installed Teams on Windows 10 pro and video is blurry. Like a pro app. Do Microsoft support monitor this community/forum? Jan 22 2021 Playing same Video from SharePoint works perfect why not from the video-platform (Video or Stream)? 04:57 PM Unfortunately MS Teams is our company standard solution, and being a financial institution we cannot install other options, even though we are in IT.When sharing we have to change resolution on one monitor to 1920x1080, which makes everything huge for us, but legible on the share. We are experiencing this as well, I dislike having to keep using Zoom. Yes its still pretty much the same. Any update or fixes with this? It's that basic there doesn't seem to be any settings to tweak, it should just work? You can dig into the calls from here and see what it says about the quality, This is not any official Microsoft support forum, no! @jsquaredzThanks. For me it is unbelievable that not more Microsoft Teams users are complaining about that. Select action center, and then select Focus assist. https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/d412260c-a669-ec11-a819-000d3a058885, Delivering new webinar experiences with Microsoft Teams, Whats New in Microsoft Teams | August and September 2022, Make your Microsoft Teams meetings more effective and inclusive. Has anyone had a similar issue, or knows how to fix this? on However if i load LogiCapture and then select the virtual source in teams the local quality is improved to 720 and so is the remote. We also have fiber optic internet. I am trying to create how-to videos for my college and when I upload a MP4 video file to Stream, it give me just the 360p playback quality. on This is most likely due to the awareness of Microsoft 365 temporary feature adjustments" due to very extensive increase in the cloud services during the pandemic. Jun 30 2020 Same issue with quality on PC and Mac still, but no problems with Zoom or Google Meets. That's pretty bad. After a couple weeks of running the laptops you will work with the PFE (premier field engineer) to upload the data from each computer > then go through a very detailed analysis. May 26, 2022, by Jun 29 2020 If I join from my iPhone/iPad, i have no issues. We have been pushing people to Teams for the collaboration, etc, but they are pushing back to use Zoom. I know for some this is not the issue, but be sure your webcam is working right. ? Am I alone in finding the video quality for screen sharing borderline unacceptable? Minimize distractions and disruptions in virtual meetings with background blur. Find out more about the Microsoft MVP Award Program. Zoom fully supports screen sharing in 4K monitors. 05:50 AM Teams is designed to give the best audio, video, and content sharing experience regardless of your network conditions. I'll walk you through every step in order to set up properly OBS avoiding the virtual camera. Everything appears blurry and hard to read. Best practices and the latest news on Microsoft FastTrack, The employee experience platform to help people thrive at work, Expand your Azure partner-to-partner network, Bringing IT Pros together through In-Person & Virtual events. Best practices and the latest news on Microsoft FastTrack, The employee experience platform to help people thrive at work, Expand your Azure partner-to-partner network, Bringing IT Pros together through In-Person & Virtual events. They can look at the logs and diagnose your issue. on 2) get with your TAM (technical account manager) with your premier support contract if you have one, if not then use some of your software assurance premier incident credits > all to ask for an O365 Network performance assessment engagement. I understand that Skype for Business and Teams are different applications but I'm confused as to why SfB video on the same network would be sharp, and clear with good clarity and quality and Teams is fuzzy and unclear. I am sure there was one previously on Uservoice but this doesn't seem to have been moved over. Doesnt make any sense to alter it on the client side right? Just need to wait patiently for it to make its way into the release version. Here are two ways you can turn off the notification: Select the Start button, then select Settings > System > Notifications & actions, and then turn off Display Settings. Did you find a solution? May need to switch to YouTube. When setting up your video and audio before joining a Teams meeting, select background effects. by I was able to work around this by saving my recording in a AVI format and when I uploaded that, the system provided the 1080p playback. When the call initiates, Teams says the network or internet, can't remember which, is poor - but I don't see how it can be on those speeds. Please MS fix this asap. FYI, just downloaded zoom, and tested with 3 users and video quality is perfect, as you'd expect - so this doesn't seem to be a bandwidth issue, but a specific issue with Teams ? This Windows 10 feature enables you to manage when notifications appear. If we share at native resolution, nobody can see what we are sharing. ZOOM with 720p using the same cam on the same device. I encourage you to find the one that applies to your situation (or add a new one) so others can also vote for these improvements:https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/, Sep 30 2020 Here is a video I put together showing this issue. My Surface Pro cam works really well, Standard 720p or 1080 webcams seem to work quite well. We gladly put the money back into creating helpful content for our channel. I tried to use just the camera app in Windows10. - edited on Youll see zoom is using more bandwidth and streaming HD video. When I pin one of the blurry colleagues his image becomes sharp. Click here: shorturl.at/jnozH--- Does your screen look blurry or pixelated in Microsoft Teams? I just need videos recorded from my screen, I want to use them as E-Learning videos, but I think Stream or Video is not the right place for this? Some people report that whenever they put the mouse cursor over text or picture, it looks normal - to only return blurry again after moving the mouse away. We have MS accounts in our organisation (120+ user). May 01 2020 I am not sure, but believe the video quality is OK in "the other end" (at the recievers), and that is the most important thing. If sharing between two 4K monitors (each user has a 4K monitor) with high band width (very common these days), why does Teams lower the resolution to 1920 x 1080? May 31, 2022. For more info about how to do this, see Make older programs compatible with this version of Windows. Upgrade to Microsoft Edge to take advantage of the latest features, security updates, and technical support. 1) get with your Microsoft account team and ask them to put you in touch with other customers that have deployed Teams for the purpose of Telehealth. - edited 06:42 AM, Reinstalling seems to be a solution(see other post here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/all/screen-sharing-in-teams-is-blurry/e57f1c0b-e21 ). Sep 09 2022 On desktop, your new background is set. I have raised a feedback for you here. Microsoft Stream (Classic) Video playback blurry Video playback blurry Discussion Options WOJE Occasional Contributor Jan 21 2019 07:07 AM Video playback blurry I want to use Stream as an e-Learning platform, I tried a short video for testing (20"), but this video is very blurry . Turn the notification about blurry apps on or off. Increase video quality for screen sharing. The shared screen is so blurry. @Alex BalcanquallI am having the same issue. Either dshow has a bug or the teams client. June 20, 2017. 350mbps broadband and getting 70mbps + over WiFi zoom = perfect, teams = terrible. I am having this issue too. Select Blur to blur your background, or choose from the available images to replace it. 05:00 PM. We have been pushing people to Teams for the collaboration, etc, but they are pushing back to use Zoom. seanpenrose I did include myself in the user voice for Teams. November 29, 2021, by seanpenrose When using teams as just audio and video - the quality is absolutely fine - everything is very clear. Some participant windows are blurry, others are sharp; when pinned the blurry one is sharp Hi all, Eg when on a Teams meeting with more than 1 participant, the camera feeds / windows of some participants are sharp while others are blurry. Also I bet region might have some effect there. You are right that the current limit is 1080p resolution as per Microsoft documentation. If platform scaling is such a huge problem, then stop trying to get everything hosted in the cloud. Amber Waisanen Unlimited one-to-one meetings for up to 30 hours. Ive actually tried to push the video directly and through OBS and I can tell the quality from the camera is perfect like the zoom video shows. Gigabit download and 50mbps upload. (Work from home | No. Click the link for "Advanced Scaling Settings" Uncheck the box that says "Let windows try to fix apps so they're not blurry". Do you know if Microsoft support monitor this forum? - edited Which Windows operating system am I running? 2x2 (web only) If you're using Teams on the web (Edge or Chrome browser), you'll see up to four video streams at a time. Re: Poor video quality with ample bandwidth. Starting the same video from SharePoint works fine Jan 22 2019 I would recommend 2 things that are not technical related if you have solid hardware on your endpoints already. Ah, thanks for the tip. We are awaiting our analysis as I type. I got a response from Microsoft Teams Support: Microsoft has reduced their bandwidth and quality settings to 720p or less in some cases with the surge of usage due to corona virus. I haven't noticed an update regarding this since the previous message (MC207439) so as far as I know it's still reduced. I've seen those articles, but don't think they help me any. Is it poor Teams application? You'll also of course need to ensure you meet the hardware requirements: Hardware requirements for Microsoft Teams However, as soon as I share a powerpoint, screen or document etc, the quality of the video feed simultaneously reduces and goes blurry/pixelated. It would be nice to see real people and not minecraft villagers :). If you have multiple displays connected to your PC or if your display configuration changes, some desktop apps might appear blurry. 02:40 AM. How does the background effects feature work. Zoom, FB, and other video apps it is pretty sharp. Sounds like Microsoft tried to get too smart with the AI which needs to be dialed back! We've tried with 5 users and the video quality is poor - not high definition at all, very blurry and/or blocky. June 03, 2022, by And the TEAMS video quality is around 480p. I think that there are a number of things that you might not be thinking about when sharing. MP4 as the format unfortunately won't say much. We have been pushing people to Teams for the collaboration, etc, but they are pushing back to use Zoom. Even when they zoom in it's just all blurry. @ChristianBergstrom I have been urging my dept to switch to teams. But it will be max 720P in teams. Setting is on automatic, but changing to highest bitrate makes no difference. - edited You can also try to consider other factors like packet loss and jitter. Here is hoping that MSFT will look at this and improve the video resolution. Could be a few things to check here. Seems that if you use the Teams web-app instead of the desktop-app, video quality will improve significantly. Thank you for the recommendations. It turns out it was back focusing terribly (focused behind me by at least a foot or two). We do have a couple of Microsoft Gold Partners I can reach out to. September 30, 2022, by New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. More info about Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge, https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/poor-videos-during-teams/m-p/1290304, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/hardware-requirements-for-the-teams-app, https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/19096657-webcam-quality-is-very-low. Microsoft Teams provide Dashboard to analyze it, you can refer to: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/difference-between-call-analytics-and-call-quality-dashboard. 11:53 PM Maybe this is happening for you?https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/264636-general/suggestions/35568271-improve-stream-performanchttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Video/MS-Stream-Video-very-blurry/m-p/77873/highli @Alex BalcanquallI am having the same issue.. very frustrating. May 01 2020 I mean I agree to have this option under control, and I can see you are in a company with excellent hardware, but at least for most giant company I know, still not have/need that. May 01 2020 Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. So there's nothing more to do than just wait until MS fixes the issue? So the issue seems to be only happening at initial meeting setup and only in the Teams desktop app (not the browser as already reported by @RonaldDJ). https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/obs-virtual-cam-bad-video-quality-in-teams-skype.118800/(i am the one posting the xplit detail in that thread). @jsquaredzI've discovered that my webcam (Microsoft LifeCam Studio) was the primary reason my video was bad. Stevee100 You connect remotelyto another PC, and the display for the PC youre connecting to has a different resolution than the one youre connecting from. I ONLY use it when the invites I receive call for Teams or I avoid it because it is so poor whether I am looking at the other people or my stream to them. Raise Teams Meeting Quality beyond 1080p (E.g., 4K) for better meeting experience and screen sharing @Ed WoodrickYeah, it's a 34" 3440x1440. On your mobile device, selectBackground effects. I am using xsplit vcam and xplit broadcaster and worked with their support to understand how their apps offer the stream to the team client. If you have Windows 10 (version 1903) installed, the setting to fix blurry apps is turned on by default. :( (Teams is my LEAST desirable video app service. MS Team force the poorest 360p video quality without any option for user to select a better setting. Luckily they have a config file, it contains multiple resolutions. So, in conclusion our bandwidth is not the issue with the poor video quality with Teams. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/difference-between-call-analytics-and-call-quality-d https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/upgrade-prepare-environment-prepare-network. Find out more about the Microsoft MVP Award Program. NO! This Windows 10 feature enables you to manage when notifications appear. so Teams is not trying to get the highest resolution. Do they experience the same issue? Mar 05 2022 Here are some examples of whereyou might experience this: You open an app on a display with a high resolution andthen move the app to another display that has a different resolution. But the Zoom (what use the same camera and internet) working fine. - edited Best practices and the latest news on Microsoft FastTrack, The employee experience platform to help people thrive at work, Expand your Azure partner-to-partner network, Bringing IT Pros together through In-Person & Virtual events. Create a virtual meeting space that keeps the focus on the conversation, shows your personality, and enhances collaboration. I have tried updating Firmware, updating windows, checking driver versions etc - basically everything on these threads. Also, the meeting recording also shows my stream in full quality. Since webcams are in short supply I used aCanon - VIXIA HF R800 with a USB HDMI capture adapter and my video is much better now. Thank you so much for your advice. Here is a video I put together showing this issue. Video calling makes connecting virtually almost as much fun as being there. on -- I think MS needs to actually improve their app itself. Can Microsoft enable a higher quality video mode to make Teams competitive with less convenient streaming software? Choose from a variety of predesigned professional or fun background images readily available in Teams. Close Teams, clear Teams Cache. I called with microsoft. @jsquaredzJust a heads up that besides your own configuration this is most likely due to the "Awareness of Microsoft 365 temporary feature adjustments" due to the extensive increase of cloud services. Sep 30 2020 The resoult is the same: the problem is in the TEAMS system. The preview stays very bad quality, but when a call is made, the other end has "better" video. From what I've read today, Microsoft are as increasing the capacity as we speak due to the high demands. If i open Teams in the browser, i have a good quality. Is there some other test/log I should be running/looking at? But that was already clear, I guess. Until they upgrade to meet demand or people go back to normal life we won't be able to really get solid video through the service for a bit, Refer : https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/poor-videos-during-teams/m-p/1290304. It isn't as simple as bandwidth. Thanks for the feedback. I don't want to believe it could it be that the Lync developers could provided a better application. https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/19096657-webcam-quality-is-very-low. On a desktop selectBackground filters. For anyone still seeing this, it's still an issue. Is your video quality in MS Teams still poor? 5 GB of cloud storage per user. just had terrible video quality and choppy audio changed to Google Meet and it was fine. this quality is not acceptable. Background images are currently limited to PC and Mac clients. 2.2meg for 30 seconds, and the fact the bitrate is very low might be the issue as it might have an issue trying to encode something so low from the start? Best practices and the latest news on Microsoft FastTrack, The employee experience platform to help people thrive at work, Expand your Azure partner-to-partner network, Bringing IT Pros together through In-Person & Virtual events. Sharing best practices for building any app with .NET. I tried to figured out, what is the problem. 1. Join a Teams meeting and ask your participants to turn on their cameras to display a 2x2 grid of four participant videos at once. I am a MS fan for the most part, but you guys need to fix this Teams video quality issue. 5.9K subscribers Subscribe 9.1K views 1 year ago Microsoft Teams In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to avoid the blurry effect using OBS virtual camera in Microsoft Teams, Zoom,. @Alex Balcanqualloh it looks like the new upcoming built in camera output on OBS won't have this issue. If apps appear blurry or if a notification about blurry apps appears on your main display, follow these steps: Do one of the following, depending on whetheryou're prompted with "Fix apps that are blurry?". To upload an image of your own, select Add new and pick a .JPG, .PNG, or .BMP file from your computer. 100% agree .. it is riduculous .. and everyone is spending soo much time "troubleshooting" .. MS Teams is overriding the resolution and the results are horrendous. Mine is. In this video tutorial, youll learn how to avoid the blurry effect using OBS virtual camera in Microsoft Teams, Zoom,Webex, Google Meet, and other tools. @CW1981 Sorry you are having problems. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. 05:51 AM. Microsoft restricted it for a while to 720p because of platform scaling, but I think we are at the point it needs to happen, especially as cameras like the Brio support it. Can I use different backgrounds while on my tablet or mobile device? I would recommend voting up and getting as many to do so to get it in front of the product team. Hi Trond - you might be right, because I don't get real complaints for other participants. Go to your meeting controls and select More actions > Apply background effects . You'll appear nice and clear while everything behind you is subtly concealed. Microsoft_Teams_team on on Just wish the video quality could be addressed. For Teams one of the adjustments involved 'reduced video resolution'. 06:29 PM. - edited On your mobile device selectDoneto approve the background. @jsquaredzHm, so no solution yet. Select action center , and then select Focus assist. When people are sharing their screens with me, it appears blurry on my new laptop. Our company has been phasing back-to-the-office this month. Using screen capturedirectly in MS Stream was fixing my problem, works perfectly! Here is my 10 second video, and it's bitrate is pretty high. My workstation has plenty of resources on a 500mbps FrontierFiOS connection. Betreff: Increase video quality for screen sharing. Great for documents and mostly-static app windows. Hi @adam deltingerthanks for the response. on Mar 05 2022 I tested it again today and noticed that if I sign completely out of Skype for Business, the Teams meeting audio quality improves, but not the video. We have been pushing people to Teams for the collaboration, etc, but they are pushing back to use Zoom. To find out if Windows can fix the problem, close a desktop app that appears blurry on your main display and then open it again. Get together virtually anytime and anywherewith a video conference. - edited Bandwidth is fine, we're only using with 4 users so I'm sure we're not hitting the (6000?) Background blur is a technique used in virtual meetings to help keep the focus on you. It seems to cap out at 1080P with very strong compression at a low framerate. All that being said, i do love teams. They can get you in contact with another custom and collaborate on how they got it setup and any technical configuration changes they needed to make. We're very happy with the Office365 etc environment in general and I understand the service needs to scale well to the lowest common denominator, but it seems harmless to expand the upper range if everyone in the call can handle it. Stevee100 I set it to 16:9 and zoom things in on my screen whenever I am sharing though. May 01 2020 Go to Teams Settings > General and check the checkbox for disable the gpu hardware acceleration then restart your teams. If i just use it in teams directly, the output is 360 ish locally and remotely. I've read a lot about this issue. So this definitely is a MS Teams issue. After about 25" it changes to an acceptable quality, not good for an 30" video Where are you based? This is really annoying, especially if it's working in US region and not in Central or West Europe?! That said, when bandwidth is insufficient, Teams prioritizes audio quality over video quality. The higher the resolution, the better your images will appear. Thank you Chris. It seems like every platform except for MS Teams has video adjustment or filter options either built into app or optional manual control and general video quality of MS Teams is extremely poor -- regardless of my connection or device used (phone OR current surface!) I'm trying to use Teams for internal team video call meetings (located in the same building, different offices, same network & internet connection). DAZachHoiberg Com'on MSF! I dunno, check your bit-rate in the bottom right, see what it's set too, maybe your connection is keeping it from using higher bit-rate since it's playing through a streaming service. Are there certain settings tools that make higher quality videos more likely? I am using a Logitech c922. port NAT pool size limit, all ports are allowed out etc - and video works, just the quality is poor. Personalize your meeting experience by uploading your own images, such as your company logo, favorite sports team, or dream vacation destination. Up to 100 participants per meeting. How do I change my Microsoft Teams background? Observe the focus process. But have I missed something? Video was poor and audio was choppy. The first being what size screen are you sharing from. Would the video improve if we completed the upgrade switch to Teams? Jan 22 2019 Zoom = perfect, Teams = not useable. Call analytics and Vad for example! Exactly the same problem. We have a 4K event camera with 1000Gbit internet connection. https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/264636-general/suggestions/35568271-improve-stream-performanc https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Video/MS-Stream-Video-very-blurry/m-p/77873/highli https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/obs-virtual-cam-bad-video-quality-in-teams-skype.118800/, Video Playback Blurry first half of video, Shared my prepared video in this meeting with full screen and including system audio. In this video tutorial, youll learn how to avoid the blurry effect using OBS virtual camera in Microsoft Teams, Zoom,Webex, Google Meet, and other tools. o Close Teams (dont forget the background process), o Go to %appdata%\microsoft\teams, o Delete all files and folders here. SelectBlurto blur your background, choose an image provided by Teams, or upload your own photo. 05:22 PM Virtual backgrounds in Microsoft Teams Create a virtual meeting space that keeps the focus on the conversation, shows your personality, and enhances collaboration. If the prompt doesnt appear, in the search box on the taskbar,type advanced scaling settings and select Fix apps that are blurry. Workaround using in-build screen recording won't work for me, because of the 15minute length limitation.Anyone an idea, how to overcome this? Restart Teams and test. sadly same for me.. as a software developer it's a pain sharing screen with 1080p, when all of us has atleast a 2k screen. Chinmaya_Madan I got a response from Microsoft Teams Support: Microsoft has reduced their bandwidth and quality settings to 720p or less in some cases with the surge of usage due to corona virus. Here you can choose to blur meeting background, select from a list of images, or upload your own image. The only issue now is that it is showing just the 1080p and the 360p with nothing inbetween. One of our MVPs just posted a blog about this yesterday: I use a Logitech brio 4K camera. The video quality is crystal clear no matter what (dependent on connection speed which is understandable). There has been calls for this online for a long time about going beyond 1080p - for example, to 4k. May 01 2020 Start a video call and invite anyone to join, even if theyre not on Microsoft Teams. All of our company issued user devices exceed the hardware requirements, Please MS fix this asap. Compared to Zoom the screen sharing experience of Microsoft Teams is simply horrible. You dock your laptop or tablet to a display that has a different resolution, and then you project in Second screen only mode. 06:29 PM. on @exportakademiaDo you had a solution for this already? February 01, 2023, by What a terrible first intro for them, as Zoom works flawlessly. :). US? We've been in this holding pattern of the upgrade since March. This is blurry camera on Microsoft Team. Find out more about the Microsoft MVP Award Program. I like Discord's solution: Tell it to optimize your screen share for text legibility and you get high-quality full-resolution captures at a low framerate to keep bandwidth and resource usage down. (Work from home | No experience required): Click here to learn more shorturl.at/jKSX2 SUBSCRIBE to get NEW Tutorials Every Week !