[BLU/Officers] Jitsi features

[David Kramer]

For the green screen issue, I've found that ambient light is a very 
important factor.  Try adding more light to your room?

I will test out the feature when I get a chance (and I do have a green 
screen)

On 4/14/21 12:52 PM, Bill Ricker 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.)
>
> -- 
> Bill Ricker
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>
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