Technical Requirements

Updated April 26, 2021

Cristal Mojica

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Getting Ready to Use Midspace?

We want to make sure that all users have a great experience on Midspace!

Here is the brief list of minimum technical requirements for using our platform:

Highly recommended to have a stable connection of at least 5Mbps (the same as YouTube recommends for 1080p)
Newest version of Google Chrome, Firefox, Edge or Safari
Windows 10 or latest macOS

Requirements for Uploads

Video

Midspace supports a wide range of video upload formats. However, for the best results, we recommend that you upload videos in the following format:

Codec: H.264 (AVC)
Container: MP4
Resolution: 1920x1080 (1080p)

Note: Midspace does not support the following H.264 profiles: High 4:2:2, High 10-bit, High 4:4:4. Files produced in a ‘lossless’ mode are unlikely to work.

Tip: you can use the following ffmpeg command to convert many input videos to a format Midspace accepts.

ffmpeg -i <input file> -vcodec h264 -s hd1080 -crf 23 output.mp4

Other Content Formats

Midspace supports PDFs, and the following image formats: PNG, JPG/JPEG, GIF and WebP.

We also support uploads for text/abstracts; links; youtube and other sites video embeddings (by url to the video); and zoom links!

Tip: We also highly recommend attendees use headphones and an external camera, when available. This ensures a more comfortable experience during those long networking hours!