Calculating video streams for VDI clients in Zoom
Users can specify a maximum number of 25 or 49 participants to display per screen in Gallery View of Zoom VDI Client when they select the video settings of the client. Users have the option to have a maximum of 49 participants for their meeting, but only if they are running on a computer that can display multiple streams of video at once.
Prerequisites for changing meeting view settings
It is possible to display up to 49 thumbnails per page in Gallery View:
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Version 5.9.6 or higher of the Zoom Meeting client for VDI and the Zoom Meeting Plugin for VDI
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According to the desktop client video settings, the maximum number of participants that can be displayed per screen in Gallery View is set to 49 participants.
Note: This option is not available if you don’t meet the CPU requirements on your computer.-
It is supported that the following processors can be used with a single monitor:
- Intel i5
- 4 cores or higher
- 4th generation or higher
- Intel i7, i9, Xeon
- 2 cores or higher
- Intel Atom
- 6 cores or higher
- Other Intel processors
- 6 cores or higher
- 3.0GHz or higher
- AMD Ryzen 5 series
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- Supported processors for dual monitors
- Intel i5
- 4 cores or higher
- 6th generation or higher
- 2.0GHz or higher
- Intel i7, i9, Xeon
- 4 cores or higher
- Intel Atom
- 6 cores or higher
- 1.6GHz frequency of higher; OR
- 8 cores or higher
- Other Intel processors
- 8 cores or higher
- 3.0GHz or higher; OR
- 12 cores or higher
- AMD Ryzen 7/9 series
- Intel i5
How to calculate the number of video streams based on hardware
Two cores and frequency < 2G
3*3 or 9 video streams
AMD 2 cores and the cpu name has “x-2”, for example: “GX-217”
3*2 or 6 video streams
Two cores and frequency >= 2G. (Intel i5/i7 < 2G will also work)
5*5 or 25 video streams
Four cores and more
5*5 or 25 video streams
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