Meta Platforms, Inc.

Yun Zhang

Shyam Sadhwani

Yu-Chen Sun

Methods, systems, and storage media to determine an available number of hardware decoders that can be used to process a video feed. The system can receive a select group of participants from a plurality of participants associated with the video call. The system can include identify a video feed for each participant of the select group of participants. The system can send a request for the video feed of each participant of the select group of participants. The system can receive a video feed associated with each of the select group of participants in the video call. The system can allocate a hardware decoder to each participant of the select group based on the request for each video feed. The system can determine operational parameters of at least one of the hardware decoders. The system can include switching the video feed from the hardware decoder to the software decoder.

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Newark, CA, United States of America

Yun Zhang