Low-end devices have trouble with streaming, which codec to use?

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Hi,

We use Janus in our mobile application to stream the device camera to a Janus videoroom. At the moment we use vp8 as our encoding, but it seems like low-end devices can have trouble with streaming.

Can this be the case? And let’s say we switch to h264, can the device load be lower than when we use vp8?

Kind regards,
Jesse de Wild

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I guess that depends on whether those devices have hardware decoders for specific codecs or not. If not, I don’t think you’ll get any specific advantage with either codec.