Video Meeting

4K High Quality, Low Latency
Simple Video Meetings

Requestland’s video meetings use direct peer-to-peer (P2P) connections without going through a server, achieving low latency and up to 4K high-quality video.

Up to 3 or 4 participants for video. Up to 10 participants for audio-only meetings. Your friend can join without user registration simply by receiving a link.

Features

By sharing a video meeting link, even people without user registration can join.
High quality, low latency: 320x240, Full HD, WQHD, 4K. High-quality audio: from 6 Kbps to 384 Kbps.
Screen sharing. Grid view and spotlight view.
Share messages and Banban Boards within your organization to discuss and collaborate.

How to Use: When You Receive a Video Meeting Link

Open the link. Press the “Join” button to enter the video meeting.

To leave the meeting, tap the screen and press “Leave” shown at the top right. Even if you leave once, you can rejoin again.

How to Use

Join

Press the video meeting button in the project menu, a message session, or the subview to enter the video meeting preparation screen.

Press “Join and call” to enter the video meeting. A notification sound or ringing tone will play on the devices of users who are set to receive notifications for the current project. Press “Join quietly” to join without playing a notification sound. In both cases, a message saying “XXX joined” will be shown to other users.

Change Settings

When you tap the screen during a video meeting, buttons such as the leave button, the settings menu, and the buttons for grid view and spotlight view will appear.

In the settings menu, you can change video quality and share your screen.

In grid view, tapping a person switches to spotlight view for that person.

To send messages or use Banban Board during the meeting, press the minimize button in the settings menu.

Every video meeting belongs to one of the message sessions within the current project. On the video meeting preparation screen, you can switch message sessions by pressing “Select another message session”

Leave

To leave the meeting, tap the screen and press “Leave” shown at the top right. Even if you leave once, you can rejoin again.

On smartphones, switching apps may cause the video meeting to end.

Network Quality and Number of Participants

Requestland’s video meetings use direct peer-to-peer (P2P) connections without going through a server, providing very low latency and high video quality. (Mobile data charges may apply.)

On the other hand, sufficient network bandwidth is required. For example, when three people are participating, you send data to two other participants and receive data from those two participants, resulting in four simultaneous connections. Depending on the sending video quality and network conditions, up to three participants can enjoy high-quality video. With reduced video quality, up to four participants are practical. For audio-only calls, up to about eight participants can join.

To avoid issues on mobile networks, the default sending resolution is set to low quality (640 × 480). On high-quality networks, you can switch to higher video quality.

If the video does not move smoothly, all participants should lower the sending video quality from the settings menu. Alternatively, press the video meeting button in the settings menu and switch to an audio-only call.

Users on home or corporate networks (Wi-Fi or LAN) are often behind firewalls, which may prevent connections from outside. Even in such cases, we provide a COTURN relay server, but its bandwidth capacity is limited. Connecting via a mobile network may work better.

Settings Menu

When you tap the screen during a video meeting, the video meeting settings menu appears at the top of the screen.

Minimize

Minimizes the video meeting into a thumbnail and returns to the original screen. The thumbnail can be dragged to move it. Press the button on the thumbnail to turn it into a small icon at the bottom left of the screen. The icon does not get in the way, but you may not notice it. Tap the thumbnail or icon to return to the video meeting.

Fullscreen / Exit Fullscreen

Switches to fullscreen display. Press again to return to the previous view.

Mute / Unmute

Press to mute your microphone so your audio is not sent. You can still hear other participants. Press again to unmute.

Video Meeting / Audio Call

Switches between video meetings and audio-only calls. In audio-only mode, your video is not sent, but you can still see other participants’ video.

Screen Sharing / Stop Sharing

Select a screen to share with other participants. To stop screen sharing, press “Stop Sharing” or the stop screen sharing button. This feature is not available on smartphones.

Copy Link

Copies the meeting link to the clipboard. Anyone who receives this link can join the video meeting even without user registration. For details, see Invite People Outside Your Organization to a Video Meeting.

Settings

Configure settings such as video quality. Changes are saved on the device and will be used the next time.

To close the settings, press the button at the top right.

Sending Video Quality: The video quality sent to other participants. When many participants are present or when using a slow connection such as a mobile network, lowering the quality improves smoothness. The default is 640 × 480 to work well on mobile networks. On high-quality networks, select higher quality. To send very high resolutions such as 4K or WQHD, you may need to select a high-performance codec in the Video setting below.
To change the quality of other participants’ video on your screen, ask them to change their sending video quality.
Camera: Selects the camera to use.
Microphone: Selects the microphone to use.
Speaker: Selects the speaker to use.
Video: Selects the video codec (compression method) for sending video. From highest to lowest performance: VP9, VP8, H264. VP9 provides high-quality video with less bandwidth but requires a fast CPU. H264 has lower CPU usage but is not suitable for high-resolution video. The default is VP8.
Audio Bitrate: Selecting a higher bitrate improves audio quality. Selecting a lower bitrate allows more participants to join even on slower networks. The default is 96 Kbps.

Invite People Outside Your Organization to a Video Meeting

To hold a video meeting with people who do not belong to your organization on Requestland or who are not registered users, tap the meeting screen and press Copy Link in the settings menu. Alternatively, press “Copy Video Meeting Link” from the extended menu button in a message session. The link is copied to the clipboard, so send it to the person you want to invite.

If you open the link at the same time, or enter from the video meeting button , you can start the video meeting.

Invited people outside the organization can only use the video meeting feature. They cannot use other features such as messages or Banban Boards.

Video Meeting Settings for Message Sessions

Every video meeting belongs to one of the message sessions within the current project.

Press “Message Session Settings” from the extended menu button at the top right of a message session to open the settings screen.

Copy Video Meeting Link: Other people can join the video meeting using this link.
Invalidate and Renew Link: If the link is leaked or sent by mistake, press “Invalidate and Renew Link” to invalidate the existing link and generate a new one. Anyone within the organization can perform this action.
Restrict Video Meeting Participants: You can restrict video meeting participants to users within this organization only. If not restricted, anyone who knows the link can join the video meeting.

Security

When you press “Copy Video Meeting Link,” the same link with the same random videoID is copied each time.

https://request.land/(n_n)v?videoID=K2oaPbJeUAuMj6wQit094B

It is practically impossible to guess this videoID at random. However, if you share the link with many people, situations such as “We were having a meeting with two people and an unexpected person suddenly joined” or “Others were holding a meeting without my knowledge” may occur. Please share the link only with a small number of trusted people.

You can invalidate the existing link and issue a new one using Invalidate and Renew Link above.

You can also prevent non-organization users from joining by using Restrict Video Meeting Participants above.

4K High Quality, Low Latency Simple Video Meetings