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 works although there are a few > artifacts. However, this feature is only available on Windows. If you > are running it on Linux, you need a green screen in order to use a > virtual background. 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 system through a web browser (Firefox). > I use an old slide projector screen with a green cloth draped over > it. It works well but is a pain to set up for every Zoom call. The practical aspects of it are a big problem. For many people, they've re-purposed a small bedroom as an office, and there isn't room to set up extra equipment. Your best bet is hanging something from a picture hook, or leaning something up against a wall. You can get green & blue screens that have a springy outer border that folds over itself like a car windscreen sun blocker, when you want to pack it away. They can stand up by themselves against a wall without using any framework. They even make ones that hang off the back of your office chair, turning it into a big throne. Though being that close to it will probably have shadow problems. The alternative is how we used to show slides and home movies without a real screen. Hang a cloth over the curtains. Turn the end around a broomstick, or spare curtain rod, a few times. Bulldog clip or clothes peg it to the rod. Pop the rod over the top of your hanging curtains to hold it in place. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.15.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 3 15:06:38 UTC 2021 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ 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
