On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 7:16 PM Jonathan Billings <billings@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 into Zoom. Is that > > possible on Fedora? > > You can use the v4l2loopback kernel module to create a virtual camera, > and use one of the many tools to send video to the virtual video > device. However, that will just send a video or image to the video > device, it won't get your webcam's picture and overlay it on top of > it. If you want that, you'll need to do what zoom is already trying > to do, which requires a static background (a green screen). Thanks, Jonathan, for your clarification. I am now thinking about an alternative: blurring the background. Skype can do that, but not Zoom -- unfortunately. Paul _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
