Ask HN: YouTube over Zoom

2 points by plg 4y ago ↗ HN

On Zoom, is there a way for a presenter (e.g. a teacher) to present a YouTube video to participants (e.g. students) without literally having the teacher’s local YouTube stream get sent over zoom? It’s unworkable.

What about a feature whereby a presenter can submit a YouTube url to zoom and then each participant’s machine fetches and presents the YouTube stream locally?

My kid’s teacher keeps showing YouTube videos over zoom and the frame rate is like 1 frame per 2 seconds and it’s totally unworkable.

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cowvin 4y ago ↗

Jitsi can do it, but it's not as popular, unfortunately.

Minor49er 4y ago ↗

Watch2Gether (w2g.tv) or SyncTube (sync-tube.de) might be useful, though the best and easiest thing the teacher should do is to drop the URL to the video in the Zoom chat. If possible, it would be a good idea to capture the footage of the playback to show the teacher how it looks since they might not understand how severe the problem is

plg 4y ago ↗

Would be ok for older kids but for little kids also not feasible to deal with a chat window, a url, etc

Also the kids will launch the YouTube url and then rapidly start to surf YouTube instead of paying attention to the teacher

Something where the teacher is in control but streaming is local would be ideal

aquark 4y ago ↗

If the teacher is moderately technical then they can gain a lot of flexibility by using OBS (https://obsproject.com/) and its 'virtual camera' feature as your 'webcam' feeding into Zoom.

Then anything you do in OBS is feed into Zoom as a direct video feed and saves Zoom screen scraping and re-encoding the video. You can use OBS's screen capture or better yet pre-download the files and just play them back.