{"id":498361,"date":"2023-06-30T14:24:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T12:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=498361"},"modified":"2023-06-30T15:00:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T13:00:19","slug":"whatsapp-getting-a-video-quality-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/498361-whatsapp-getting-a-video-quality-upgrade.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp getting a video quality upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"

WhatsApp has started rolling out a feature that allows users of its beta Android app to send higher-quality videos, WABetaInfo reports<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The publication recently reported<\/strong><\/a> that an “HD” setting for photos was being rolled out to WhatsApp Android beta testers.<\/p>\n

With WhatsApp beta for Android version 2.23.14.10, select users have been given the ability to use a similar setting for sending videos.<\/p>\n

WhatsApp’s fairly aggressive media compression helps to send files more quickly while consuming less mobile data.<\/p>\n

However, it radically reduces the quality of the media, a point of pain for multimedia creators who want their content to retain its original quality.<\/p>\n

Like the HD option for photos, the feature for video sharing strikes a balance between quality and efficiency.<\/p>\n

It keeps the resolution of the original video but still applies some compression to keep the file size relatively small.<\/p>\n

The setting is currently available in the media editor.<\/p>\n

In the example shown by WABetaInfo, a 30-second clip with the existing standard quality option was compressed to 6.3MB and a resolution of 416 x 880. That would work out to a pixel count of 366,080.<\/p>\n

The HD quality option was roughly double the size \u2014 12MB \u2014 and measured 608 x 1,296, with a total pixel count of 787,968.<\/p>\n

While we could not see the differences for ourselves, they should have been relatively noticeable, given the pixel count on the latter was over double that of the first clip.<\/p>\n

When a user sends a video with the HD quality option, a watermark will be shown on the video within the conversation.<\/p>\n

WABetaInfo expects the feature to roll out to more users over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

The screenshot below from WABetaInfo shows the standard\/HD quality switching feature in the beta version of the app.<\/p>\n

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Now read: WhatsApp shuts down original desktop app<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The company recently also rolled began testing an option to send higher-quality photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":465377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934,16],"tags":[161,8839,73842,2594],"class_list":["post-498361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","category-software","tag-facebook","tag-instant-messaging","tag-meta-platforms","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498379,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498361\/revisions\/498379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}