Re: Virtual background for Zoom video

2021-02-14 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2021-02-15 at 09:18 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > Why do you need to display something behind you to get it to > display a background image? You can look at my prior responses for an explanation about it. The application needs some way to determine what's background or foreground, to d

Re: Virtual background for Zoom video

2021-02-14 Thread Stephen Morris
On 9/2/21 23:16, Paul Smith wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 11:44 AM Stephen Morris wrote: I would like to replace the background behind in my webcam video feed with an image. However, that is not possible, as it requires a “green screen”, which I do not have. So, my idea is to use a virtual came

Re: Virtual background for Zoom video

2021-02-10 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 1:59 PM Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 10Feb2021 14:17, Tim wrote: > >The same kind of thing could be done by storing a still image from the > >camera before you step in front of it, and always comparing it with the > >current live camera. > > Zoom on my Mac seems to do this

Re: Virtual background for Zoom video

2021-02-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 10Feb2021 14:17, Tim wrote: >The same kind of thing could be done by storing a still image from the >camera before you step in front of it, and always comparing it with the >current live camera. Zoom on my Mac seems to do this, but neater: no background required, seems to detect that I move a

Re: Virtual background for Zoom video

2021-02-09 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2021-02-09 at 22:44 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > Just one question, what do you mean by green screen? I use zoom on > my work laptop in Windows 10 showing static and animated backgrounds > behind the camera image so that people can't see anything in the room > behind me, and I didn't thin

Re: Virtual background for Zoom video

2021-02-09 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 11:44 AM Stephen Morris wrote: > > >>> I would like to replace the background behind in my webcam video feed > >>> with an image. However, that is not possible, as it requires a “green > >>> screen”, which I do not have. So, my idea is to use a virtual camera > >>> with a ba

Re: Virtual background for Zoom video

2021-02-09 Thread Stephen Morris
On 5/2/21 06:37, Paul Smith wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 7:16 PM Jonathan Billings wrote: I would like to replace the background behind in my webcam video feed with an image. However, that is not possible, as it requires a “green screen”, which I do not have. So, my idea is to use a virtual ca

Re: Virtual background for Zoom video

2021-02-06 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2021-02-06 at 15:07 +, Paul Smith wrote: > Thank you all again for your answers. I have meanwhile found > something that gives me some hope: Using OBS Studio as a virtual > camera on Zoom with obs-StreamFX plugin on: > > https://github.com/Xaymar/obs-StreamFX You're welcome. I had a

Re: Virtual background for Zoom video

2021-02-06 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 3:07 PM Paul Smith wrote: > > Thank you all again for your answers. I have meanwhile found something > that gives me some hope: Using OBS Studio as a virtual camera on Zoom > with obs-StreamFX plugin on: > > https://github.com/Xaymar/obs-StreamFX > > Now, my difficulty is ho

Re: Virtual background for Zoom video

2021-02-06 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 1:51 AM Tim via users wrote: > > > I just used Zoom for the first time, this morning. I had a ferret > > around, but although I can see an option in meeting (advanced) > > settings to enable it, I saw nothing else anywhere to actually make > > use of it. This is using thei

Re: Virtual background for Zoom video

2021-02-05 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2021-02-06 at 11:49 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > I just used Zoom for the first time, this morning. I had a ferret > around, but although I can see an option in meeting (advanced) > settings to enable it, I saw nothing else anywhere to actually make > use of it. This is using their syste

Re: Virtual background for Zoom video

2021-02-05 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 08:50 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > I looked into this with Zoom, because I wanted to have a nice > background like my online bridge partner does. It turns out that Zoom > does have a way to separate foreground from background that does not > rely on a green screen. It mostly wor

Re: Virtual background for Zoom video

2021-02-05 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 2/5/21 7:49 AM, Phil Edwards wrote: Apparently, the Windows version of the Zoom client will happily do virtual backgrounds without the need for a green screen (providing your hardware meets the minimum requirements). But then if we were Windows users, we wouldn't be here would we? Unfort

Re: Virtual background for Zoom video

2021-02-05 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 8:51 PM Tim via users wrote: > > If I google around, apparently there are things that can do the green > screen effect with zoom without a *green* screen, though they may be > Windows/Mac. > I looked into this with Zoom, because I wanted to have a nice background like my o

Re: Virtual background for Zoom video

2021-02-05 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 3:32 PM Tim via users wrote: > > > I would like to replace the background behind in my webcam video feed > > with an image. However, that is not possible, as it requires a “green > > screen”, which I do not have. > > Are you sure it's required? My quick look at the zoom hel

Re: Virtual background for Zoom video

2021-02-05 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2021-02-04 at 19:09 +, Paul Smith wrote: > I would like to replace the background behind in my webcam video feed > with an image. However, that is not possible, as it requires a “green > screen”, which I do not have. Are you sure it's required? My quick look at the zoom help page just

Re: Virtual background for Zoom video

2021-02-05 Thread Phil Edwards
Apparently, the Windows version of the Zoom client will happily do virtual backgrounds without the need for a green screen (providing your hardware meets the minimum requirements). But then if we were Windows users, we wouldn't be here would we? Unfortunately, that facility is not available to Lin

Re: Virtual background for Zoom video

2021-02-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 14:21 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > On Thu, 2021-02-04 at 19:09 +, Paul Smith wrote: > > I would like to replace the background behind in my webcam video feed > > with an image. However, that is not possible, as it requires a “green > > screen”, which I do not have. So, my

Re: Virtual background for Zoom video

2021-02-04 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2021-02-04 at 19:09 +, Paul Smith wrote: > I would like to replace the background behind in my webcam video feed > with an image. However, that is not possible, as it requires a “green > screen”, which I do not have. So, my idea is to use a virtual camera > with a background image chose

Re: Virtual background for Zoom video

2021-02-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2/4/21 11:09 AM, Paul Smith wrote: I would like to replace the background behind in my webcam video feed with an image. However, that is not possible, as it requires a “green screen”, which I do not have. So, my idea is to use a virtual camera with a background image chosen by me and feed that

Re: Virtual background for Zoom video

2021-02-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 7:16 PM Jonathan Billings wrote: > > > I would like to replace the background behind in my webcam video feed > > with an image. However, that is not possible, as it requires a “green > > screen”, which I do not have. So, my idea is to use a virtual camera > > with a backgrou

Re: Virtual background for Zoom video

2021-02-04 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 07:09:03PM +, Paul Smith wrote: > I would like to replace the background behind in my webcam video feed > with an image. However, that is not possible, as it requires a “green > screen”, which I do not have. So, my idea is to use a virtual camera > with a background imag

Virtual background for Zoom video

2021-02-04 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, I would like to replace the background behind in my webcam video feed with an image. However, that is not possible, as it requires a “green screen”, which I do not have. So, my idea is to use a virtual camera with a background image chosen by me and feed that into Zoom. Is that possible