Closed wrong bug, sorry.

Is there any progress on this? I still have compressed 4:3 instead of 16:9 with Firefox 74. As there is much more need of WebRTC these quarantine days it would be awesome if Firefox could deliver beautiful video streams with the correct aspect ratio :-) I tried Jitsi, WebEx, talky.io, ... If I try meet.google.com I see the right aspect ratio before joining a room and the wrong 4:3 after joining - so there might be a workaround existing?
Thanks!

I would also like an update of some sort. Either this or add support for the aspectRatio constraint. I'm currently developing a webapp for taking profile photos That I want to work with as many cameras as possible in their best provided resolution, and it's sad how firefox forces every camera to 640x480 no matter what getusermedia says it's capable of. I've got it working pulling native resolution in all other browsers but Firefox. I also think this is the reason Slack refuses to support firefox for video calls.

(In reply to Sam Switzer from comment #15)

I want to work with as many cameras as possible in their best provided resolution, and it's sad how firefox forces every camera to 640x480 no matter what getusermedia says it's capable of. I've got it working pulling native resolution in all other browsers but Firefox.

Hi Sam. Firefox should enumerate all native resolutions of your camera just fine, as you can see here: https://jsfiddle.net/jib1/4p5gqm0o/show

If you are having problems pulling a specific native resolution with that link, please provide info about you camera. Thanks!

(In reply to fburka from comment #14)

I still have compressed 4:3 instead of 16:9 with Firefox 74. As there is much more need of WebRTC these quarantine days it would be awesome if Firefox could deliver beautiful video streams with the correct aspect ratio :-) I tried Jitsi, WebEx, talky.io, ... If I try meet.google.com I see the right aspect ratio before joining a room and the wrong 4:3 after joining - so there might be a workaround existing?

Hi fburka, as you can see in comment 16, Firefox supports all available native modes, and you can't get more "beautiful" than that, as far as quality.

Instead, this bug is about "compressing" higher resolutions down to emulate missing lower resolution modes, like Chrome does, even chopping off the bottom of e.g. 640x480 to produce 640x360 to emulate 16:9.

Unfortunately, the choice of camera resolution rests with the site, so it's hard to know why 4:3 was chosen for you. Many cameras have low-resolution 4:3 modes and high-resolution 16:9 modes. Likely, the site is choosing a lower resolution on purpose, either for perceived network bandwidth reasons or in the case of hangouts/meet, site bugs like bug 1630089 comment 4.

When a low resolution is chosen by the site, you'll likely see it as 4:3 in Firefox (the whole camera frame) vs a 16:9 (cropped native 4:3 camera frame) in Chrome (you're actually seeing more bits in Firefox!)

As to workarounds (for sites, not users):

1. Sites could easily use CSS at playback time on receivers if parity and the 16:9 aesthetic is important (at minor bandwidth cost)
2. If bandwidth is a concern, there are ways to downscale a high-res 16:9 mode in peer connection, using scaleResolutionDownBy but most sites don't seem to bother.
3. File a bug on hangouts/meet to not look at unrelated data like navigator.hardwareConcurrency to determine HD vs VGA (& ★ this one)

We hope to get to this soon, as we realize it's become a web compat problem, as most sites don't seem interested in handling native modes directly.

Excited for this feature, thank you for identifying the root cause of 1645876. Is there an ETA for this or a way I could contribute? We are looking to use this when flash retires this year.

Does anyone know of workaround? Our video applications would really like to support firefox.

FWIW, I've noticed macOS-specific behavior:
On MacBook Air 13-inch 2020 build running macOS 10.15.5 and visiting https://test.webrtc.org/
FF81: 320x240 not available
Chrome86: 320x240 is available

while in comparison on Dell Inspiron 14-inch model 7490 with builtin webcam (labelled "Integrated Webcam") running Windows 10 Home visiting the same site...
FF81 and Chrome86: 320x240 is available

The spec was changed to require this 4 days ago.

For what it's worth, the lack of frame rate decimation caused a web compat problem I ran into a few days ago that was threatening to derail remote school in Firefox for a bunch of students. See https://twitter.com/bytingtheapple/status/1338901952168513537 and preceding thread. Clever put in a workaround, but it would be good to not force people to do that...

For those looking for a workaround using MediaRecorder, used ffmpeg wasm for desktop support. https://ffmpegwasm.github.io/

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Hi,
any update on this being one of the last pieces together with this https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1531461 to get FaceTime working?
Thanks