> I suspect it's because the project is primarily focused on video.
Audio is 80% of video.
Most people will watch to a potato-quality video if the person talking can be understood fairly well, but will probably not bother with something where the audio is echo-y, with wind, and sounds like it was recorded over a wet string, even if the image is 4K/HDR.
How advanced the included audio controls is certainly up for debate, but it's not possible to focus on 'just' video.
> Storing all the video isn't feasible, not is analyzing it in real time, so the only sensible threat model is targeted attacks, but the companies have no reason to do that. Governments do, but this makes the companies resistant to governments.
Analyzing the audio stream of a video call is possible in real time, in fact Google meet already does it to offer closed captioning in real time (the only good feature meet has compared to other alternatives)
> massive library of 1080p video with zero buffer time.
Yes but can you sit there and wait for several hours before accessing a grainy 240p clip of a whale being blown up, and then thinking it was the best thing ever for three days? Kids these days....
> because the video and especially audio quality is so atrocious for many of them
Of the few ones you watched, which had atrocious audio quality? I've watched many of them, and the video has been fine for all the recordings, and the audio quality obviously depends on the speakers setup, not the processing/encoding/quality of the video. But of the ones I've seen, the audio has been perfectly fine to be able to understand what's being said.
CCC has been perfecting the art of "recording, streaming and storing conference talks" for many many years, so it would be weird if it suddenly took a dive in quality. Would like to see what videos you're talking about here.
Edit: I just quickly went through all the videos on the page from the submission, to check the video/audio quality. All of them have perfectly OK video/audio quality while 2 videos could have been better mixed/mastered (volume too low) but nothing raising the level of your speaker wouldn't be able to fix.
You mean like zoom recordings? Yeah nobody has those.
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