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Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by EdJiang »

piptastic wrote: post #32
bluetidepro wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are correct that Screen Hero still works and all, but it is technically "dead." No one new can sign up for the service. You can only use it if you already had it setup. I would personally consider that "dead" if it's now closed off for anyone to signup with. It's not like you can recommend this as alternative to what Slack is doing with their screen sharing. On https://screenhero.com/login they even say "New sign…

I typed /hero in slack It gave a link to "add the Screenhero Integration" I clicked that link and it took me to a Slack prompted me to create a "free account", which it did using my Slack information. Then I was able to download screenhero. So, anyone new can sign up for the service via Slack.

If you're part of a paid Slack org, you can go to [ORGNAME].slack.com/screenhero to create a ScreenHero account.

If you're not part of a paid org, a lot of times nonprofits have free premium Slack orgs, and you can use your membership in one of those to get Screenhero.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by socialist_coder »

On Windows 10 whenever I click the "Start a call" button it causes the entire slack app to become extremely blurry. Other apps do this too sometimes. It has something to do with how they are being rendered, maybe related to high-dpi support or something. I've tried disabling the high-dpi support and enabling compatibility mode but it doesn't have any effect.

Even after I close the "start a call" dialog the blurriness persists. It doesn't go back to normal until I restart Slack.

Any ideas what is going on? I can't find any working fixes for this in Slack or any other apps where this also happens.

An interesting thing I noticed was that in Unity (game dev IDE) when I set the render method to anything but DX9 it causes this same blurriness. Only DX9 makes it render sharp. DX10, DX11, etc all cause the blurriness.

I just have a normal Windows 10 desktop, latest drivers & updates, GTX 1080 GPU.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by theblang »

amelius wrote: post #48
brightball wrote: post #11

I'm really surprised this took so long. Hipchat has had this available for a couple of years now. If they aren't adding the pairing features that made Screenhero so good (dual mouse pointers, dual control, resolution adjustment and scrollaround windowing) then what's the value add?

I'm more surprised about the fact that the masses didn't switch to a more capable chat service in the meantime.

To what service? I don't know of any others that allow the multiple cursors when screen sharing.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by ajmurmann »

joeblau wrote: post #39
owaislone wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lack of Linux support is the only thing preventing our organization from ditching hangouts.

What's wrong with Google Hangouts? (I don't have any perspective, just asking)

Hangout's encoding also it's a real performance hog because most devices don't support H.264 in hardware. Every time I'm in a hangout the fans come on and the battery rapidly drops towards zero.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by bogomipz »

koolba wrote: post #7
coldpie wrote: post #5

Strikes me as a poor future when we use proprietary protocols on other peoples' servers to facilitate all of our communications.

That's been the present for the majority of most people's lives. Even with email there wasn't much, if any, time where the majority of people ran their own servers.

Email wasn't a proprietary protocol though. Xmpp wasn't a proprietary either and that 'present' wasn't that long ago.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by eyeonai »

necrodome wrote: post #58
eyeonai wrote: post #54

I use https://www.acrossio.com because they record the video chat and the screensharing directly in the cloud. The best feature is that they bookmark moments and tasks while they record and you can play back the sessions from the bookmark I start sessions from within slack and i can search in past sessions because everything is indexed It's like slack for video. I can also contextualize existing video recordings from…

You sound more like an advertisement than a genuine comment.

Well, I love Slack https://www.slack.com too and I use it every day. I also referred it to hundreds of my friends and colleagues all these years and they've thanked me about that many times.

I try stuff that give me value and I am not ashamed to share my experiences. If that sounds like a Slack advertisement or whatever I can only say that I've used WebEx, Cisco Spark, Microsoft Teams, Yammer, Hipchat, Zoom.us, Gotomeeting and other collaboration tools as an early adopter (sometimes in the first alpha and beta versions) searching for something that could stick with my needs. I love this stuff (collab s/w) and I used screenhero at least a year+ before slack bought them. I was not impressed back then, but I am ready to see how they evolved.

Slack is great but sometimes all these large companies are doing stuff the way Microsoft did with Skype .. took them ages to evolve the product after they bought it.

I like having options nevertheless :)

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