Dynamic cloud video composition

A media conferencing service comprising:

• a computing node and a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the computer-readable medium having stored therein computer-readable instructions that, upon execution by the computing node, configure the service to perform operations comprising:
• establishing a video conference including video streams received from devices of a plurality of participants;
• receiving, from at least one of the devices, a capability associated with consuming at least two of the video streams;
• determining, based on the capability, that the at least one device is not capable of individually consuming the at least two of the video streams, wherein the determining, based on the capability, that the at least one device is not capable of individually consuming the at least two of the video streams comprises comparing the capability with a threshold to determine that the at least one device is not capable of individually consuming the at least two of the video streams;
• combining, based on determining that the at least one device is not capable of consuming the at least two of the video streams, the at least two video streams into a composite video stream;
• and
• transmitting the composite video stream to the at least one device.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer-readable instructions, the computer-readable instructions comprising instructions that, upon execution on one or more computing devices, at least cause:

• establishing a video conference including video streams received from devices of a plurality of participants;
• receiving, from at least one of the devices, a capability associated with consuming at least two of the video streams;
• determining, based on the capability, that the at least one device is not capable of individually consuming the at least two of the video streams, wherein the determining, based on the capability, that the at least one device is not capable of individually consuming the at least two of the video streams comprises comparing the capability with a threshold to determine that the at least one device is not capable of individually consuming the at least two of the video streams;
• combining, based on determining that the at least one device is not capable of consuming the at least two of the video streams, the at least two video streams into a composite video stream;
• and
• transmitting the composite video stream to the at least one device.