Improvements for quality of screen sharing

Hi,
We have used the following values for screensharing from publisher side.
We have already tried changing values specified in previous posts,however couldnt see big difference.
These are the current values we have used,
protected static const DEFAULT_SS_PERFORMANCE:uint = 100;
protected static const DEFAULT_SS_KFI:uint = 480
protected static const DEFAULT_SS_FPS:uint = 2;
protected static const DEFAULT_SS_QUALITY:uint = 100;
protected static const DEFAULT_SS_BANDWIDTH:uint = 192500;
protected static const DEFAULT_SS_ENABLEHFSS:Boolean = false;
ssPublisher.quality = DEFAULT_SS_QUALITY;
ssPublisher.performance = DEFAULT_SS_PERFORMANCE;
ssPublisher.keyFrameInterval = DEFAULT_SS_KFI;
ssPublisher.fps = DEFAULT_SS_FPS;
ssPublisher.enableHFSS = DEFAULT_SS_ENABLEHFSS;
ssPublisher.bandwidth = DEFAULT_SS_BANDWIDTH;
Please suggest me with a solution inorder to get better screenshare quality.
Thanks.

Hi Tilak,
Please do try the following settings
protected static const DEFAULT_SS_PERFORMANCE:uint = 100;
protected static const DEFAULT_SS_KFI:uint = 480
protected static const DEFAULT_SS_FPS:uint = 8;
protected static const DEFAULT_SS_QUALITY:uint = 100;
protected static const DEFAULT_SS_BANDWIDTH:uint = 0;
protected static const DEFAULT_SS_ENABLEHFSS:Boolean = false;
ssPublisher.quality = DEFAULT_SS_QUALITY;
ssPublisher.performance = DEFAULT_SS_PERFORMANCE;
ssPublisher.keyFrameInterval = DEFAULT_SS_KFI;
ssPublisher.fps = DEFAULT_SS_FPS;
ssPublisher.enableHFSS = DEFAULT_SS_ENABLEHFSS;
ssPublisher.bandwidth = DEFAULT_SS_BANDWIDTH;
Thanks
Arun

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