On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 11:44 AM Stephen Morris <samor...@netspace.net.au> 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.
> 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 think there was anything special in my zoom configuration.

A picture is worth a thousand words, Steve:

https://gadgetstouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Green-Screen.jpg

Paul
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