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Linux-Fake-Background-Webcam
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Fake Cam doesn't work
I'm trying to install Linux-Fake-Background-Webcam, which in turn requires 4l2loopback. Following the 4l2loopback manual, I try the following command to install it:
- Linux-Fake-Background-Webcam: Faking your webcam background under GNU/Linux.
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How Not to Support Desktop GNU+Linux, Zoom Edition
> Is this really a problem with Zoom or one with Wayland and the Linux distros?
I would say this is really a problem with Zoom, mostly due to the lack of attention paid to their web client.
For me, when it comes to video conferencing, the "table stakes" is working duplex audio over bluetooth, and so far only pipewire has solved this, which means Linux only.
After that, two very important features to have are screen sharing and background blur. For screen sharing, both Chrome/Chromium and Firefox have great support for screencast over pipewire, and so do many wayland compositors such as KDE kwin. As such, on a "pure" wayland system with no X11 window [1], screen sharing is also a solved problem.
Background blur is more ... complicated. When Google Meet rolled out https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/10/background-features-in-goo..., it immediately worked with chrome/chromium, on either wayland or X11. However, to this day, I think it still doesn't work with firefox, for whatever reason. Meanwhile, Zoom Linux client only started to support background blur (without green screen) since 5.7.6 released in August 2021, while Zoom web client remains hopeless.
In my previous job, we use Google Meet, and all is well with wayland. In the current one, we use Zoom, and I have to setup https://github.com/fangfufu/Linux-Fake-Background-Webcam as a workaround.
[1] This is very much doable these days, unless you want to run Slack desktop, which is hit-and-miss when running with --ozone-platform=wayland (unlike other electron-based apps such as Signal desktop), and of course the Zoom Linux app, which is just crap, as described in the article. Solution: run Slack and Zoom as Firefox tabs.
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How Not to Support Desktop GNU+Linux, Zoom Edition (working Wayland support coming soon?)
I was going to say, Zoom's absolutely broken greenscreen support is nicely hacked in X by the community with this excellent repo: https://github.com/fangfufu/Linux-Fake-Background-Webcam
- Background Blur by video call on Teams Linux
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Python Script Workaround to Be Able to Use Virtual Backgrounds in MS Teams for Linux
It seems pretty cool, but why does it need to be run as root? I can run Linux-Fake-Background-Webcam just fine without root!
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Zoom gains virtual background without green screen functionality
I use https://github.com/fangfufu/Linux-Fake-Background-Webcam and it works great (realtime) for video background removal.
- How do I enable Zoom virtual background without green screen in Linux?
- I updated my Linux webcam background replacement tool to use Google's Mediapipe as image segmentation backend. It is now so much faster!
winevdm
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Winlator: Android app that lets you to run Windows apps with Wine
Not exactly what you were asking, but winevdm [0] does use code from Wine to run 16-bit Windows applications on 64-bit Windows installs that don't support it natively (via ntvdm).
[0] - https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
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"LibreOffice is better at reading old Word files than Word"
https://github.com/otya128/winevdm run 16 bit apps on 64 windows
This, along with Windows's own compatibility mode tweaks, should run almost any game that has ever been released on Windows.
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SimCity Classic - Guide to Installation (Windows / DOSBox)
WineVDM: https://github.com/otya128/winevdm/releases
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Show HN: WinGPT, AI Assistant for Windows 3.1
It could work with the help with otvdm: https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
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Free Tech Tools and Resources - Mac Scrolling, Load Testing, Win Server Switch Tip & More
You can repeat this command as many times as you need to for additional records. More information can be found here. Total downtime in a VMWare environment is less than five minutes, barring any DNS server replication in play." Yet Another Free Tool winevdm enables you to keep old Windows programs on life support by running 16-bit Windows (1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on a 64-bit Windows system. Ojakobe explains, "Had a special case of a user who clung to their Windows 7 PC because their work was reliant on a 16-bit program from 1997 (and even on 7 it didn't run properly). Used the program above to make it run reliably on 10." One Final Free Tool LocalAI is a self-hosted, OpenAI-compatible API that allows you to run language learning models locally or on-prem using consumer-grade hardware without the need for GPUs. This RESTful API supports multiple model families that are compatible with ggml format. Our thanks go to mudler_it for this one.
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IT Pro Tuesday #255 - Mac Scrolling, Load Testing, Win Server Switch Tip & More
winevdm enables you to keep old Windows programs on life support by running 16-bit Windows (1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on a 64-bit Windows system. Ojakobe explains, "Had a special case of a user who clung to their Windows 7 PC because their work was reliant on a 16-bit program from 1997 (and even on 7 it didn't run properly). Used the program above to make it run reliably on 10."
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Anyone know how to get ActiveSync on windows 10?
After that you should now be able to install software. One final sticking point is that some older programs are wrapped up in 16-bit installers, however these can be installed by running the installer with something like otvdm.
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Why won't this run on my windows 11 pc?
Try WineVDM because NTvdm never got a port to 64-bit since the CPU mode it relied on for fast 16-bit code execution gets disabled when a x86 processor is switched into long mode. WineVDM is likely translating 16-bit instruction calls to 32-bit and then passing that off to Windows
What are some alternatives?
deepbacksub - Virtual Video Device for Background Replacement with Deep Semantic Segmentation
OTVDM - Windows/DOS emulator -> https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
fake-chroma-key
dosbox-x - DOSBox-X fork of the DOSBox project
Jitsi Meet - Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences that you use as a standalone app or embed in your web application.
ntvdmx64 - Run Microsoft Windows NTVDM (DOS) on 64bit Editions
mediapipe - Cross-platform, customizable ML solutions for live and streaming media.
em-dosbox - An Emscripten port of DOSBox
virtual_webcam_background - Use a virtual webcam background and overlays with body-pix and v4l2loopback
ScpToolkit - Windows Driver and XInput Wrapper for Sony DualShock 3/4 Controllers
backgroundremover - Background Remover lets you Remove Background from images and video using AI with a simple command line interface that is free and open source.
DS4Windows - Like those other ds4tools, but sexier