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Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by samtoday »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #105
izacus wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most devices DO support H.264 encoding. Hangouts however uses VP9 in Chrome and that's not HW accelerated. If you use Safari on Mac it'll switch to H264 and that will stress CPU less.

I'd love to see someone do the math how much CO2 is Google unnecessarily produce by enforcing VP9 because they are fussy about licensing fees. I've tried to run 4K60 VP9 (and h.265 for that matter) video from youtube on the latest top spec MacBook Pro and it's completely impossible to watch. Transcoded to h.264 and computer barely gets warm.

Maybe you could rephrase that. How many years of human progress and CO2 emissions have been caused by the uncooperative licensing situation caused by these software patent owners?

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by yeukhon »

Nition wrote: post #92
tommi wrote: post #26

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I like Slack but I'm bit hesitant to have it the ability to control my mouse and keyboard all the time. Slack is so popular that there are certainly lot attacks against it and that could be one of the biggest exploits. I really hope operating system side sandboxing features mature and I'm able to control if and when software has access to such features.

We can finally replicate the way movies show "hacking" where the hacker starts controlling the kb + mouse and typing "HELLO MR SMITH. YOU HAVE BEEN HACKED" in 128px font.

This has been around for years. Webex has it for a long time.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by yeukhon »

dyeje wrote: post #46

Can't believe it took them 2.5 years integrate ScreenHero.

Seriously, are you going to knock this out in a few weeks? Have you tried integrate someone else's giant codebase and their infrastructure?

Also, integration does not stop other features and bugs from being implemented and fixed.

Also they probably have a path to sunset the service and perhaps that means they need to think about future migrations.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by ransom1538 »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #107
waleedka wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LOL. I'm guessing you're sarcastically jabbing at Slack for the known issue that their desktop app uses a lot of memory.

I don't get why people use Slack app. The whole Slack deal is to get away from desktop apps and run on the browser. This opens up freedom to start Slacks where corp is blocking app installs (but not zealous enough to be blocking/MITM'ing network yet).

Chat apps in 4 billion lines of javascript are totally terrible. Wrap the turd in 4 layers of react. It is still awful.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by BinaryIdiot »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #107
waleedka wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LOL. I'm guessing you're sarcastically jabbing at Slack for the known issue that their desktop app uses a lot of memory.

I don't get why people use Slack app. The whole Slack deal is to get away from desktop apps and run on the browser. This opens up freedom to start Slacks where corp is blocking app installs (but not zealous enough to be blocking/MITM'ing network yet).

Multiple tabs in a web browser flat out sucks for multi-tasking. macOS, Windows and many flavors of window managers for Linux provide many ways for switching between windows, seeing what's open, hiding things, etc. In a browser they're just straight tabs.

Have you ever need to switch between multiple tabs semi regularly while keeping other tabs open? Have you ever wanted two tabs to be side-by-side? It's a usability horror show.

Wrapping Slack in its own app let's me use the windowing manager my operating system came with.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by cdogl »

Crespyl wrote: post #68
shmerl wrote: post #28

Do they use WebRTC and do they work in Firefox on Linux?

According to the article, it's only available for the Mac and Windows desktop apps.

It's perplexing that it's not built using cross-platform web technology. If you're not going to leverage that, why saddle users with the signicant resource and latency impact of an Electron app?

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by adjkant »

yeukhon wrote: post #113
dyeje wrote: post #46

Can't believe it took them 2.5 years integrate ScreenHero.

Seriously, are you going to knock this out in a few weeks? Have you tried integrate someone else's giant codebase and their infrastructure? Also, integration does not stop other features and bugs from being implemented and fixed. Also they probably have a path to sunset the service and perhaps that means they need to think about future migrations.

Maybe not a few weeks, but 2.5 years seems pretty intense. Why not six months? I find it hard to believe they couldn't have executed well in six months if it was a priority. Clearly, it wasn't.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by joshumax »

misiti3780 wrote: post #42
bluetidepro wrote: post #10

As someone else mentioned, they are finally doing some more with their purchase of Screen Hero most likely. However, one major feature that Screen Hero had that I don't _THINK_ this new screen sharing built in Slack has, is the ability for the other person to control the mouse/keyboard on your screen. I could be wrong, but if that is the case it's a huge feature missing. That was one of my favorite things that Screen…

If anyone from screenhero is reading: I love screenhero and use it all the time but the one feature I need the team to add is the ability to disable another people's control of my screen. I think this feature is useful, but sometimes I'm giving a demo and just dont need it (or want it). I have fucked up multiple demos because someone accidentally clicked off my browser tab while I was controlling the screen.

I loved using screenhero with my team... waited forever for a Linux build to come but was sad when Slack bought them out and the port was never brought to fruition.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by tamalsaha001 »

erichurkman wrote: post #90
31reasons wrote: post #52

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If you are just giving demo, why not use Google hangout?

Google Hangouts eats batteries for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Google Hangouts uses so much chrome, it is very hard to see on a laptop screen.
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