Virtual webcam – play a video in e.g. Zoom

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	Virtual webcam – play a video in e.g. Zoom (rmsol.de)
	20 points by Redeyes 2251 days ago

3 comments

ckdarby 2251 days ago

This reminds me of using OBS to make entirely custom virtual cameras and when Shopify's CEO offered $10k for feature support.

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/2568

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guggle 2251 days ago

I couldn't get v4l2 to work for some in-browser apps. But this one I could: https://github.com/webcamoid/akvcam

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Redeyes 2251 days ago

Thy for sharing will also try that out

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xupybd 2251 days ago

Can't you just share the screen in zoom or Skype?

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Redeyes 2251 days ago

Yes, you can share your screen in zoom and skype. At first, I wanted just to play "a funny" video over the webcam (instead of my face), for my colleagues. And sharing the desktop over the webcam was just a "nice to have" feature, in the case, the application does not support screen sharing.

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skinnymuch 2251 days ago

Screen share in Zoom normally takes up a lot of space and is annoying in my opinion if it isn’t by someone leading a meeting. It isn’t naturally via your webcam.

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