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I'm watching a video on Air and the quality setting is 'Auto'. How does this get determined?

I'm watching a video on Air and the quality setting is 'Auto'. How does this get determined?

Written by Lauren Ford

Updated over a week ago

The 'Auto' quality selection on video playback is determined based on the speed of the end user's internet connection.

The library Air uses does some simple calculations to choose the best level for the current bandwidth among 4 presets:

180p
540p
720p
1080p