# Camera.quality

#### Availability

Flash Player 6.

#### Usage

    active_cam.quality

#### Description

Read-only property; an integer specifying the required level of picture quality, as determined by the amount of compression being applied to each video frame. Acceptable quality values range from 1 (lowest quality, maximum compression) to 100 (highest quality, no compression). The default value is 0, which means that picture quality can vary as needed to avoid exceeding available bandwidth.

#### See also

`Camera.setQuality()`