[PLUG] Chroma-key green background replacement for Zoom

2021-01-28 Thread Rich Shepard
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 __

Re: [PLUG] Chroma-key green background replacement for Zoom

2021-01-28 Thread Ben Koenig
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. -B

Re: [PLUG] Chroma-key green background replacement for Zoom

2021-01-28 Thread Rich Shepard
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 application

Re: [PLUG] Chroma-key green background replacement for Zoom

2021-01-28 Thread Ben Koenig
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 vide

Re: [PLUG] Chroma-key green background replacement for Zoom

2021-01-28 Thread Rich Shepard
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)

Re: [PLUG] Chroma-key green background replacement for Zoom

2021-01-28 Thread John Sechrest
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 that

Re: [PLUG] Chroma-key green background replacement for Zoom

2021-01-28 Thread Ben Koenig
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 pr

Re: [PLUG] Chroma-key green background replacement for Zoom

2021-01-28 Thread John Sechrest
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 this

Re: [PLUG] Chroma-key green background replacement for Zoom

2021-01-28 Thread Jason Barbier
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 o

Re: [PLUG] Chroma-key green background replacement for Zoom

2021-01-28 Thread Tomas Kuchta
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 the

Re: [PLUG] Chroma-key green background replacement for Zoom

2021-01-28 Thread Rich Shepard
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 confe

Re: [PLUG] Chroma-key green background replacement for Zoom

2021-01-28 Thread Tomas Kuchta
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 rela

Re: [PLUG] Chroma-key green background replacement for Zoom

2021-01-28 Thread Jason Barbier
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 a

Re: [PLUG] Chroma-key green background replacement for Zoom

2021-01-28 Thread Ben Koenig
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 B

Re: [PLUG] Chroma-key green background replacement for Zoom

2021-01-28 Thread Rich Shepard
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 hol

Re: [PLUG] Chroma-key green background replacement for Zoom

2021-01-28 Thread Russell Senior
> 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.