> I personally find it better if people just display static photo - if they
> really feel that they must be seen with some nice background and cannot
> just tidy up their room.
I've made the joke that my work place is too tidy, clean and sterile,
so I have a virtual background of utter chaos.
On Thu, 28 Jan 2021, Ben Koenig wrote:
Some meeting applications implement this as part of the video chat app.
Usually there's a chat room associated with the meeting that people use to
share things in the way you described.
Not what I want to do but an interesting solution to a different
On Thu, 28 Jan 2021, Ben Koenig wrote:
But since humans come in all shapes and sizes it has a tendency to either
over/under estimate the area occupied by the person.
And some of us humans occupy more space than we should ... or want to. :-(
I saw some funny Teams fails where someone would
On 1/28/21 3:40 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Thu, 28 Jan 2021, Tomas Kuchta wrote:
How about just sharing window with your favourite drawing application
(gimp/inkscape/krita/...). That is what I prefer to do.
Tomas,
I could do this.
White board applications - part of the video
On 1/28/21 3:40 PM, Jason Barbier wrote:
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021, at 3:24 PM, Tomas Kuchta wrote:
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 12:56 Jason Barbier wrote:
cam and bob's your uncle.
.
I miss this British/Irish "Bob's your uncle" saying. It used to be
family joke^2 ... While we had uncle
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021, at 3:24 PM, Tomas Kuchta wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 12:56 Jason Barbier wrote:
>
> > cam and bob's your uncle.
> >
> > .
>
>
> I miss this British/Irish "Bob's your uncle" saying. It used to be
> family joke^2 ... While we had uncle Bob.
>
> :-)
>
> On
On Thu, 28 Jan 2021, Tomas Kuchta wrote:
How about just sharing window with your favourite drawing application
(gimp/inkscape/krita/...). That is what I prefer to do.
Tomas,
I could do this.
White board applications - part of the video conferencing - so that they
can be shared - have many
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 18:30 Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jan 2021, Tomas Kuchta wrote:
>
> > I miss this British/Irish "Bob's your uncle" saying. It used to be
> > family joke^2 ... While we had uncle Bob.
>
> Tomas,
>
> And what did Uncle Bob think of it?
> .
>
He is dead.
> On a
On Thu, 28 Jan 2021, Tomas Kuchta wrote:
I miss this British/Irish "Bob's your uncle" saying. It used to be
family joke^2 ... While we had uncle Bob.
Tomas,
And what did Uncle Bob think of it?
On a related note - those green screen replacement backgrounds look pretty
weird in the
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 12:56 Jason Barbier wrote:
> cam and bob's your uncle.
>
> .
I miss this British/Irish "Bob's your uncle" saying. It used to be
family joke^2 ... While we had uncle Bob.
:-)
On a related note - those green screen replacement backgrounds look pretty
weird in
Eric,
How about reading in the lines from a file stored nearby? Just wondering.
Ken
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 10:53 AM Eric House wrote:
> >> What are you planning to do with these Zeros? Are they going to be part
> >> of a cluster or just doing randomly things independently of each other?
>
Does anyone here have experience with whitebord software? I want to use it
with presentations, There are quite a few availble, including OpenBoard,
Whyteboard, and others. Their focus appears to be in education (which is
quite a broad field) but I won't be using it with students in a virtual
>> What are you planning to do with these Zeros? Are they going to be part
>> of a cluster or just doing randomly things independently of each other?
> For now I'll be happy to have them online and reachable by name from the
> rest of my network.
I've got this working, so thought I'd report on
The way I do it is I have a cheap HDMI capture dongle, everything goes into one
laptop, I tell OBS to project onto the "monitor" attached to the HDMI port in
full screen the attach the capture card to the machine responsible for the
video call. then from there the capture card is seen like any
How do I do this on a separate machine, so that I spread out the load.
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 9:51 AM Ben Koenig wrote:
> You can do that with a v4l loopback driver. I set his up on my laptop
> where Teams could be configured to see the virtual webcam. The pipe line
> when something like
You can do that with a v4l loopback driver. I set his up on my laptop
where Teams could be configured to see the virtual webcam. The pipe line
when something like this:
webcam -> ffmpeg -> v4l loopback -> Teams.
replace ffmpeg with any applicaton that supports processing video. You
could
Also, what about this thing called OBS Ninja?
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 9:13 AM Rich Shepard
wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jan 2021, Ben Koenig wrote:
>
> > Some of the comments made by their marketing idiots about linux market
> > share was beyond stupid.
>
> Ben,
>
> Theoretically how would one measure
Given the amount of memory and compute time it takes to do the background
image filtering to get the Virtual Background, I would love to have a
"Virtual Background box" Which I plugged my Video camera into, and which
output another adulterated stream with real-time adjustment of the stream,
so
On Thu, 28 Jan 2021, Ben Koenig wrote:
Seems that Zoom bothered to implement it for Linux. Some of the other apps
(LOOKING AT YOU MICROSOFT) flat out refuse to provide certain features for
the linux version.
Ben,
Well, since Zoom must be involved with zoom-linux (and the weekly SBo
upgrades)
On Thu, 28 Jan 2021, Ben Koenig wrote:
Some of the comments made by their marketing idiots about linux market
share was beyond stupid.
Ben,
Theoretically how would one measure market share for F/OSS? And, market
share for what?
On the topic of security, there is not a single video chat
On 1/28/21 8:33 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Thu, 28 Jan 2021, Ben Koenig wrote:
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/210707503-Virtual-Background
Chroma-keying and other post-processing effects are always
implemented by the application used to process/encode video. In the
case of
On 1/27/21 10:44 PM, Tomas Kuchta wrote:
On Wed, Jan 27, 2021, 20:15 Michael Barnes wrote:
Are there ways I can run tests here to ensure it all works properly?
TIA,
Rich
I'm kind of surprised as security conscious as this group is, that anyone
would use Zoom. Especially when there are
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 11:21 Michael Barnes wrote:
>
> I use several CM500 headsets, they are great. If you look very closely, you
> will see the plugs have pictures of headsets and microphones and say
> "PHONE" and "MIC" on them. Yes, black for ear, gray for mic. The microphone
> on these
On Thu, 28 Jan 2021, Ben Koenig wrote:
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/210707503-Virtual-Background
Chroma-keying and other post-processing effects are always implemented by the
application used to process/encode video. In the case of video chat
applications, the client
On Thu, 28 Jan 2021, Michael Barnes wrote:
First, USB is digital serial data and audio is analog varying voltage.
Apples and oranges. You would not plug your toaster into a water faucet.
Michael,
I obviously didn't explain clearly. My other two microphones use USB and
worked with zoom test.
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/210707503-Virtual-Background
Chroma-keying and other post-processing effects are always implemented
by the application used to process/encode video. In the case of video
chat applications, the client application is responsible for these
features.
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 6:33 AM Rich Shepard
wrote:
> My Yamaha CM500 headset uses micro phono plugs rather than a USB "A" plug
> for connection to the desktop. 'pavucontrol' tells me that the front
> microphone is unplugged.
>
> As there are no instructions with the headset I want to check that
On Thu, 28 Jan 2021, Tomas Kuchta wrote:
I do not have your hardware, so adjust to your colors
Tomas,
How about black and blue? :-_
If your microphone is powered, and if your PC has line in input - you
should connect the microphone to line-in.
The problem is that the front line-in
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 09:33 Rich Shepard wrote:
> My Yamaha CM500 headset uses micro phono plugs rather than a USB "A" plug
> for connection to the desktop. 'pavucontrol' tells me that the front
> microphone is unplugged.
>
> As there are no instructions with the headset I want to check that I'm
My Yamaha CM500 headset uses micro phono plugs rather than a USB "A" plug
for connection to the desktop. 'pavucontrol' tells me that the front
microphone is unplugged.
As there are no instructions with the headset I want to check that I'm
connecting it correctly.
I assume the black plug is
There seems to be several tools that will place a background on a
chroma-green screen using chroma-key. If you have used this with a Zoom
meeting what software did you find worked best? I'll be connecting via
zoom-linux if that makes a difference.
TIA,
Rich
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