<div dir="auto">Nice<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">--<br>Jerry Feldman <<a href="mailto:gaf.linux@gmail.com">gaf.linux@gmail.com</a>><br>Boston Linux and Unix <a href="http://www.blu.org">http://www.blu.org</a><br>PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7<br>PGP Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1 3050 5715 B88D 6F6<br>B B6E7</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 14, 2021, 12:52 PM Bill Ricker <<a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Last night on Boston.PM, we accidentally discovered two features I didn't know JITSI had added.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">(Maybe i should check if they have a Blog with RSS?)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><ul><li><b>Picture in Picture</b> - 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 ! <br><i>Apparently this has been there <a href="https://jitsi.org/blog/introducing-presenter-mode/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">for over a year</a> and i only just noticed by happenstance ??? </i><br><br></li><li><b>Backgrounds</b> - 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. <br>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 ?? <br>But worked fairly well with a Google Ambassador's subsidized HD camera.<br><i>A real <span style="background-color:rgb(0,255,0)">green-</span>screen with OBS would still work better for professional results.</i><br><i>And yes, Blog says Virtual backgrounds were added <a href="https://jitsi.org/blog/march-update-new-toolbar-ui-virtual-backgrounds-and-more/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">March 25th</a>. </i><br></li></ul></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">They don't <i>visibly</i> advertise a feed on the Blog, but LifeRea found it. <a href="https://jitsi.org/feed/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif">https://jitsi.org/<b>feed/</b></span></a> <br><i>Subscribed</i>!<br></div><br><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">(I only recently discovered that RssOwl was abandoned, no updates, deprecated. Oops. Back to LifeRea. Don't remember why i ever switched.)</div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Bill Ricker<br><a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a><div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux</a> <br></div></div></div></div>
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