Doh. I guess I get them mixed up over here because a lot of British content ends up on both the CBC Gem app and Netflix which has a muddling of all of them.
Zoom and other such software allows you to swap the background out during video calls. Don’t know the tech behind it, but I do believe someone posted about it a couple of weeks ago on HN.
I have never found that setting. I wonder if its not included in their linux version, or perhaps, like Teams, it requires a newer CPU than what I have, so its not shown.
If you can assume constant lighting it would seem pretty easy? ask the user to move out of frame, take an image, and that's your "green screen" - difference current input fromt the camera vs the reference image of the users room, and overlay whatever doesn't match (e.g. the user) against their choice of background.
This is an entirely naive approach with no research into the problem done, and I can see big problems (such as "assume constant lighting"), but it doesn't seem too complex at a distance. I'm sure there's a video editor out there somewhere fuming at my ignorance though.
Zoom and other conferencing tools allow you to provide a background and the intelligently crop out the background. Depending on what's in your background, it doesn't work perfectly (my shelves always show up anyway), but you can also by green screens that fit to your office chair, etc. specifically for this purpose.
Anecdotally, I've found that Microsoft Teams is better with virtual background/intelligent cropping than Zoom is for me. Teams is able to work perfectly so far as I can tell while things seem to punch through on Zoom.
At least on Apples software it takes a picture of the background without you in it and then fills that in as a green screen with anything. Works decently enough.
Watched that show not so long ago, for the first time really. I guess I had fawlty expectations, I thought it might have more good jokes and less racism.
It's been a long time since I saw it last, but Fawlty's racism is meant to be backwards even for 1970s standards, so you're meant to laugh at him for idiotic prejudices that often backfire on him. I guess a similar American example of that time period would be Archie Bunker. Fawlty is a little bit less overtly boorish than him.
I guess there are a lot of cheap jokes at Miguel's expense and they don't really fit with what I've seen of Spanish culture. But also Spain was under Franco in that time so a pretty different place too.
Yes, I do get all that, and that it is meant to be in jest and actually making fun of Fawlty. I also can't fully appreciate the context... for instance in the UK I've heard it was common in the 50s and 60s for the N word and it's variants to be used but weren't meant to be derogatory (still having a hard time with that one).
However, in Fawlty Towers there was a lot of use of several racial epithets, and Miguel's character seemed overtly racist in portraying a clumsy/clueless Hispanic much in the same way as Blacks being portrayed as overly cheerful willing servants in other shows from the past.
My first thought when I saw the headline was the inside of the Tardis. I'm happy that it's not only available, but featured prominently in the announcement.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 95.2 ms ] threadThere are some classics in there, though
Agreed!
https://www.channel4.com/microsites/I/it-crowd/wallpapers/48...
https://www.channel4.com/microsites/I/it-crowd/wallpapers/20...
>Linux:
>· Zoom Desktop Client for Linux, version 2.0.91373.0502 or higher
>· Dual Core 2Ghz or Higher (i5/i7 or AMD equivalent) processor
>· A physical green screen
I'm using an i7-9700k so it's not a lack of cpu power.
edit: Maybe there's a newer version that supports green screen? The options simply don't exist in my version.
If you can assume constant lighting it would seem pretty easy? ask the user to move out of frame, take an image, and that's your "green screen" - difference current input fromt the camera vs the reference image of the users room, and overlay whatever doesn't match (e.g. the user) against their choice of background.
This is an entirely naive approach with no research into the problem done, and I can see big problems (such as "assume constant lighting"), but it doesn't seem too complex at a distance. I'm sure there's a video editor out there somewhere fuming at my ignorance though.
From previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22830968
I guess there are a lot of cheap jokes at Miguel's expense and they don't really fit with what I've seen of Spanish culture. But also Spain was under Franco in that time so a pretty different place too.
However, in Fawlty Towers there was a lot of use of several racial epithets, and Miguel's character seemed overtly racist in portraying a clumsy/clueless Hispanic much in the same way as Blacks being portrayed as overly cheerful willing servants in other shows from the past.
https://imgur.com/t/zoom/Itbzkby