HD Camera Feed in Video Calls

Try to enforce HD (16:9) camera aspect ratio for web-video calls

What is HD Camera Feed in Video Calls?

'HD Camera Feed in Video Calls' is a useful Chrome extension designed to improve web-based video calling services. It targets specific issues on platforms like Zoom, WhereBy, and Google Meet where the web clients may fail to correctly request HD resolution, causing video to appear stretched or distorted. The extension intercepts and modifies these requests, enforcing a 16:9 HD aspect ratio for supported cameras, or nicely downgrading for cameras with a 4:3 video output. These settings can be adjusted and there is an option to disable or enable the extension as needed.

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By: Getify Solutions

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Users: 2,000+

Rating: 4.00 (5)

Version: 1 (Last updated: 2020-09-25)

Creation date: 2020-09-25

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

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Size: 108.54K

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# 20464 ▲ 5

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#160 in Communication ▼ 1 #14 in hd quality keyword 40 ▲ 4 #101 in video recorder keyword 89 ▲ 8 #188 in zoom keyword 66 ▲ 4 #214 in application keyword 33 ▲

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This browser extension attempts to fix a problem I've experienced on some video-calling sites (specifically, Zoom/WhereBy/Google-Meet), where their web clients don't properly ask for HD (1280x720 or 1920x1080) resolution from your camera, and in some cases (like mine) it results in squished/distorted video instead of just nice cropping as would be expected.

This extension patches the built-in "getUserMedia(..)" API to intercept these kinds of calls and to force a request for 1280x720. Thus, if your camera supports that 16:9 HD aspect ratio, a proper non-squished feed will be returned to the web client. If your camera only supports 4:3 aspect ratio, such as 1024x768 or 640x480, then the request should nicely downgrade for your camera and still provide non-squished (albeit not-HD aspect ratio) video for your calls.

By default, the settings for this extension only apply the patch to Zoom/WhereBy/Google-Meet sites. You can change the settings to apply to different sites. There's also a handy enable/disable toggle switch if you want to quickly turn off the extension temporarily without actually uninstalling it.

User reviews

is it possible to customise aspect ratio? As I known it doesn't work on some websites like Cambly, if you try to enforce the aspect ratio they'll just tell you unable to initialize the video session. It's really frustrating

Isak, 2024-04-15

Great extension. My camera is a lumix gx85. It was causing my video calls to be squished. Once I ran this extension, every site is working. I use webex for medical, google meet for personal, and sometimes zoom for business. All three are now working fine.

Kenneth Bailey Sr., 2022-01-21

It's great and works perfectly for me! I'm using a Sony mirrorless camera as a webcam, attached to the PC with an HD video capture card. I've tried everything butt Google Meet always stretched my video and my business calls where a bit awkward (I usually use Zoom that doesn't have this problem, but sometimes I have to use other software). This extensions solved my problem. Thank you, Kyle!

Ivan Del Duca, 2021-09-17

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Risk impact

HD Camera Feed in Video Calls is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install HD Camera Feed in Video Calls if you trust the publisher.