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. on The next being what size screen are you viewing on. How to avoid blurry Virtual Camera in Teams, Zoom, Google - YouTube We've tried with 5 users and the video quality is poor - not high definition at all, very blurry and/or blocky. September 30, 2022, by Thank you for your valued time in responding. In my demo, the video was lagging. Aug 23 2019 This is blurry camera on Microsoft Team. 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 . Are there any special requirements the video needs to fulfill? 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). 05:50 AM I formyself have a 34" 3440x1440 and my colleague a 4k screen. Am I alone in finding the video quality for screen sharing borderline unacceptable? All that being said, i do love teams. 05:00 PM. anonymous-user @jsquaredzThanks. RoughJoe We have been holding off on switching from Skype for Business to Teams for our videoconferencing and telehealth due to the poor video quality. Find out more about the Microsoft MVP Award Program. Some participant windows are blurry, others are sharp; when pinned the Please MS fix this asap. We've tried with 5 users and the video quality is poor - not high definition at all, very blurry and/or blocky. 0 Sign in to comment Sign in to answer Which logs are you referring to specifically? Call analytics and Vad for example! When using teams as just audio and video - the quality is absolutely fine - everything is very clear. The backgrounds window will appear on the right side of the screen-scroll through all the options Microsoft has provided, apply the virtual background or blurring option you want ( Figure D . So there's nothing more to do than just wait until MS fixes the issue? The shared screen is so blurry. Can I use different backgrounds while on my tablet or mobile device? I set it to 16:9 and zoom things in on my screen whenever I am sharing though. so Teams is not trying to get the highest resolution. Video was poor and audio was choppy. Amber Waisanen I want to use Stream as an e-Learning platform, I tried a short video for testing (20"), but this video is very blurry this quality is not acceptable. If this issue or something similar is happening to you, try the steps in this video to resolve this issue. I am having this issue too. And just to be sure: my camera quality is, such as yours, also perfect when using Zoom or Windows 10 Camera app. Yes its still pretty much the same. Choose from a variety of predesigned professional or fun background images readily available in Teams. The Local version of the video changes depending on the source. Teams video quality - Microsoft Q&A FIX: BLURRY or PIXELATED Screen in Microsoft Teams - YouTube Please MS fix this asap. What a terrible first intro for them, as Zoom works flawlessly. 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. I haven't noticed an update regarding this since the previous message (MC207439) so as far as I know it's still reduced. Stay connected to people even when youre apart. 350mbps broadband and getting 70mbps + over WiFi zoom = perfect, teams = terrible. Mine is. 3. 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,. 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. I'm trying to use Teams for internal team video call meetings (located in the same building, different offices, same network & internet connection). All of our company issued user devices exceed the hardware requirements, Start a video call and invite anyone to join, even if theyre not on Microsoft Teams. Here you can choose to blur meeting background, select from a list of images, or upload your own image. We are experiencing this as well, I dislike having to keep using Zoom. 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. 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. There are days when my only human contact is via teams. I've personally not had video quality problems, but there are currently many reporting video quality issues. 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. And the TEAMS video quality is around 480p. SharePoint is just serving up the file buffered. 05:22 PM @jsquaredzIt's now almost october 2020. 4K camera has in teams a very bad quality. June 20, 2017. Playing same Video from SharePoint works perfect why not from the video-platform (Video or Stream)? :). 07:13 PM If the prompt appears, select Yes, open Settings, and then select Apply. If platform scaling is such a huge problem, then stop trying to get everything hosted in the cloud. For Teams one of the adjustments involved 'reduced video resolution'. I tried to use just the camera app in Windows10. on @MelbourneMarsdenMy whole team has dual 27" 4k monitors, which are great for showing a lot of the screen and multitasking. - edited August 03, 2021. Sharing best practices for building any app with .NET. In the search box on the taskbar, type advanced scaling settings and select Fix apps that are blurry. 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. Persistent Poor Audio/Video Quality when Speaking on MS Teams meeting despite ample bandwidth, Turned off hardware acceleration on PC and Mac - no difference, Reinstalled in PC and Mac - no difference. May 01 2020 unfortunately our videos need to be edited (confidential info blurred out etc) so we use screen recording software to capture the recordings. I've seen those articles, but don't think they help me any. Change your background for a Teams meeting - Microsoft Support on Jun 29 2020 Compared to Zoom the screen sharing experience of Microsoft Teams is simply horrible. On your mobile device, selectBackground effects. Also, the meeting recording also shows my stream in full quality. Mar 05 2022 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. When using the Teams WebApp, the screen sharing is as crisp as can be. on BTW: I'm running the Teams desktop app in preview mode with version1.5.00.5967 (64-bits). Why has the moderator marked this thread as having a solution, clearing the cache does not work and there is no-one in this thread that has confirmed it as a fix! How do I change my Microsoft Teams background? Stevee100 06:41 AM Teams is designed to give the best audio, video, and content sharing experience regardless of your network conditions. Is your video quality in MS Teams still poor? Doesnt make any sense to alter it on the client side right? Here is a video I put together showing this issue. Quickly present a more professional setting. 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. I am using a Logitech 922 PRO HD Stream. Problem with text display in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Q&A Have the same problem. Youll see zoom is using more bandwidth and streaming HD video. Thats not the case. I don't want to believe it could it be that the Lync developers could provided a better application. The problems could be solved when you deleting the cache of Teams! Find out more about the Microsoft MVP Award Program. Whether or not youve had blurry apps or have seen a notification about blurry apps, you can choose to turn this feature on or off any time. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. If we share at native resolution, nobody can see what we are sharing. One of our MVPs just posted a blog about this yesterday: I use a Logitech brio 4K camera. I am a MS fan for the most part, but you guys need to fix this Teams video quality issue. 09:00 AM. I have raised a feedback for you here. Find out more about the Microsoft MVP Award Program. 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. It will give you a detailed report of what the issue is. 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. This problem is only evident on the desktop app. May 01 2020 The cost to you is the same whether you use our links or not. Holly Lehman Let me explain. It would be nice to see real people and not minecraft villagers :). MS Teams Video quality is terrible - Page 2 - Microsoft Community Hub :( (Teams is my LEAST desirable video app service. Increase video quality for screen sharing. Be sure someone hasn't played with meeting policies too. I would recommend voting up and getting as many to do so to get it in front of the product team. Select action center, and then select Focus assist. Exactly the same problem. We have a 4K event camera with 1000Gbit internet connection. The blurry effect when you use the OBS virtual camera is caused by the behavior of Teams, Zoom, and other tools where in case of bad connectivity these tools prioritize the quality of screen sharing instead of the camera. Please MS fix this asap. 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!) - edited We also have fiber optic internet. Increase video quality for screen sharing. - Microsoft Community Hub -- I think MS needs to actually improve their app itself. The following table shows how Teams use bandwidth for your reference: Thank you for the link. I'm thinking you might just need to upload higher quality video. The resoult is the same: the problem is in the TEAMS system. I'm working also for a huge software company and most of us have screens with a higher resolution (higher than 1080p) And doing a longer screen sharing session with Microsoft Teams is really a pain! Teams powerpoint sharing video quality - Microsoft Q&A To turn off background effects, select . Sharing best practices for building any app with .NET. We gladly put the money back into creating helpful content for our channel. Jan 22 2019 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. @Alex BalcanquallI am having the same issue. Thank you for the recommendations. 02:37 AM ---*We may earn a commission from products purchased through our links. Shared screen is blurry on either screen though. The same issue! I've read a lot about this issue. Up to 100 participants per meeting. Not a problem with my bandwidth (250Mbit). Sep 30 2020 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. We made, and make a lots of meetings. Then, click on the 'Apply background effects' option from the overlay menu. Unlimited group meetings for up to 60 minutes. There is no workaround for OBS that I am aware of. May 01 2020 (Work from home | No. Change your background for a Teams meeting - Microsoft Support Please MS fix this asap. @jsquaredzIn a test late last night with backgrounds if I was the only one in the meeting my onscreen image was lower res and background was super low res but as soon as I connected another user a few seconds later the image for both remote and myself was much sharper, I'd say probably 1080p. 08:58 AM Just need to wait patiently for it to make its way into the release version. it is now November 2021 .. still same issue .. how is that! For more info, see Turn Focus assist on or off in Windows 10. My Brio 4K camera produces a very blurry image - even when I change the settings using the Logitech Camera Settings app down to 720p (not sure how this setting actually works technically). Unlimited one-to-one meetings for up to 30 hours. Teams uses AI and your devices camera to isolate your silhouette from the background around you and apply all the necessary details to transform your background into a new setting. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Our teams have been using it for weeks now and people are regularly getting blurry and poor audio / video quality. You can also try to consider other factors like packet loss and jitter. Create a professional background, express yourself, and avoid interruptions so you can keep the focus on the conversation. E.g. 05:51 AM. Check your task manager to see what bandwidth teams is using while youre on a call then do the same with zoom. 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. 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?". @Paulo247@jsquaredz and all: There are a couple of Uservoice items listed here for this topic. Here is my 10 second video, and it's bitrate is pretty high. 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. [SOLVED]: MS Teams Video quality is terrible, Re: [SOLVED]: MS Teams Video quality is terrible. When people are sharing their screens with me, it appears blurry on my new laptop. Join a Teams meeting and ask your participants to turn on their cameras to display a 2x2 grid of four participant videos at once. 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. Zoom fully supports screen sharing in 4K monitors. Zoom, FB, and other video apps it is pretty sharp. I have tried updating Firmware, updating windows, checking driver versions etc - basically everything on these threads. by Hi Trond - you might be right, because I don't get real complaints for other participants. 12:16 AM June 03, 2022, by Using video in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Support However, you can turn it off at any time. This is really annoying, especially if it's working in US region and not in Central or West Europe?! Any update or fixes with this? Turns out there are quite a few people apparently having focus issues with Microsoft webcams. For the best experience with custom backgrounds, we recommend uploading images with an aspect ratio of 16:9 and a resolution of at least 1920 x 1080 if possible. When I pin one of the blurry colleagues his image becomes sharp. 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 ). Using screen capturedirectly in MS Stream was fixing my problem, works perfectly! We have been pushing people to Teams for the collaboration, etc, but they are pushing back to use Zoom. by From what I've read today, Microsoft are as increasing the capacity as we speak due to the high demands. Get together virtually anytime and anywherewith a video conference. https://office365itpros.com/2020/07/22/teams-memory-management/. 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. (Work from home | No experience required): Click here to learn more shorturl.at/jKSX2 SUBSCRIBE to get NEW Tutorials Every Week ! Are there any settings in MS Teams or the Office or Teams Control Center that I may have overlooked? February 01, 2023, by I am on Teams ever day without any problems. May 01 2020 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. Our company has been phasing back-to-the-office this month. Image quality from Brio in the Win 10 camera app is excellent at any resolution and image quality in Zoom is also really good. Seems that if you use the Teams web-app instead of the desktop-app, video quality will improve significantly. I tried to figured out, what is the problem. o Close Teams (dont forget the background process), o Go to %appdata%\microsoft\teams, o Delete all files and folders here. Starting the same video from SharePoint works fine Jan 22 2019 @jsquaredzHm, so no solution yet. There are a lot of posts about this problem reaching back to 2016 and I cant find any solution. Either dshow has a bug or the teams client. Click on the same ellipsis icon (three horizontal dots) as mentioned before. 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. @wfGTI stumbled onto this thread while looking for fixes. Prepare your organization's network for Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs. We have a Fibre To The Premises internet connection, with >200Mb download and >50Mb upload - which I'd have thought would be more than ample for decent quality video call between 5 users. It isn't as simple as bandwidth. 12:19 AM. on 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. Chinmaya_Madan 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 Stevee100 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. - edited Learn how Select background effects How to Blur Background on Microsoft Teams - All Things How 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. You'll also of course need to ensure you meet the hardware requirements: Hardware requirements for Microsoft Teams Note: 2x2 video on Teams for web (Edge and Chrome) is available as part of the public preview . My workstation has plenty of resources on a 500mbps FrontierFiOS connection. Are there certain settings tools that make higher quality videos more likely? Are you able to provide the same bandwidth scenarios for Skype for Business for comparison? 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. 04:27 AM. It would be really nice to share in some higher resolution so we can stop going through these hoops to use MS Teams. Just wish the video quality could be addressed. Sharing best practices for building any app with .NET. If you have multiple displays connected to your PC or if your display configuration changes, some desktop apps might appear blurry. The blurry effect when you use the OBS virtual camera is caused by the behavior of Teams, Zoom, and other tools where in case of bad connectivity these tools prioritize the quality of screen sharing instead of the camera. 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. 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.