Show HN: ZoomerBackgrounds – community-sourced virtual video backgrounds

Post by tonypeng » Fri, Apr 17, 2020, 8:04 PM UTC

iddqd wrote: post #6

You plan on supporting videos as well?

Post by tonypeng » Fri, Apr 17, 2020, 8:39 PM UTC

aripickar wrote: post #7

logane wrote: post #2

Hi HN, author here! As students facing online instruction, we built ZoomerBackgrounds to solve firsthand the everyday problems of having subpar backgrounds and spoke with several friends working in industry about their background needs. The result is a product we really think you're really going to love. We had a lot of fun making this over the weekend and hope you all enjoy :) For the tech stack we used react on the…

I think you should accept videos since zoom allows them as backgrounds.

Post by jannes » Fri, Apr 17, 2020, 9:16 PM UTC

qznc wrote: post #3

"This is fine" is an awesome idea. Now I'm sad we have to use Skype at work.

Post by fphhotchips » Fri, Apr 17, 2020, 10:57 PM UTC

outworlder wrote: post #44

If folks want to use video backgrounds, there is a simple way, if your source is on youtube. youtube-dl In many cases these days, it will yield a mp4 file that you can plug directly into Zoom. Sometimes it will download in other formats, you might need to convert.

Post by Animats » Sat, Apr 18, 2020, 12:45 AM UTC