Get Better Video Quality for Web Calls

When video-calling online with the web clients of Zoom, Whereby, and Google Meet, you can notice strange and annoying behavior. The clients of these web applications do not properly ask for HD (16:9) resolution from your camera, and in some cases, it results in squished/distorted video instead of just nice cropping as would be expected.

This problem happens because there is no API in these web applications that asks for the resolution of your camera. Therefore, they are forced to use whatever resolution the client itself supports. That means that if your camera only supports 4:3 aspect ratio, you may end up with a squished video.

This extension will intercept the “getUserMedia(.)” API that is used in these web applications. It will detect whether the resolution of your camera supports HD (16:9) aspect ratio. If it does, it will request that resolution, and in the other case, it will request the non-squished (albeit non-HD) resolution.

This extension has a handy enable/disable switch, so you can disable the patch temporarily without actually uninstalling it.