[BLU/Officers] Jitsi features

[Jerry Feldman]

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On Wed, Apr 14, 2021, 12:52 PM Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:

> Last night on Boston.PM, we accidentally discovered two features I didn't
> know JITSI had added.
> (Maybe i should check if they have a Blog with RSS?)
>
>
>    - *Picture in Picture* - if after you click Share screen you click on
>    Camera enable with the mouse or V button on keyboard, it no longer UNshares
>    the screen, but puts you PIP in the lower right corner of the screen !
>    *Apparently this has been there for over a year
>    <https://jitsi.org/blog/introducing-presenter-mode/> and i only just
>    noticed by happenstance ??? *
>
>    - *Backgrounds* - the much loved/abused Zoom & Hangouts feature of
>    computing a green-screen w/o a greenscreen based on non-moving background,
>    and sliding in an uploaded background photo has been added to JITSI.
>    It does NOT work well with my camera -- whether due to my background
>    being subject to air currents, camera mount too wobbly, too many fly-away
>    hairs detected by camera, or just too low a resolution to reliably
>    calculate frame-t0-frame motion vs jitter ??
>    But worked fairly well with a Google Ambassador's subsidized HD camera.
>    *A real green-screen with OBS would still work better for professional
>    results.*
>    *And yes, Blog says Virtual backgrounds were added March 25th
>    <https://jitsi.org/blog/march-update-new-toolbar-ui-virtual-backgrounds-and-more/>.
>    *
>
> They don't *visibly* advertise a feed on the Blog, but LifeRea found it.
> https://jitsi.org/*feed/* <https://jitsi.org/feed/>
> *Subscribed*!
>
> (I only recently discovered that RssOwl was abandoned, no updates,
> deprecated. Oops. Back to LifeRea. Don't remember why i ever switched.)
>
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> Bill Ricker
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