How likely is google to break this if it gets popular? They could easily override `chrome.tabCapture.capture` or some other function that you depend on once the Meet page is loaded.
There's always widevine.
Show HN: Beesy – Record Google Meets for free, download locally
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Re: Show HN: Beesy – Record Google Meets for free, download locally
#42I'm not in startup world or in San Francisco so I gotta ask: is Google Meet popular with y'all? I'm on video calls pretty much all day every day and I'm mostly on Zoom or Teams, and I attend more WebEx meetings than Google Meet.
Yes we exclusively use google meet. It's very nice. I feel pain every time I have to use anything else.
Coming from jitsi, it is a pain when I have to use google meet.
Re: Show HN: Beesy – Record Google Meets for free, download locally
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well well well, Meet creeps many features if you don't use Chrome, Chime UI is so bad that a kitten dies each time someone uses it and finally Zoom works pretty nicely with the Linux client (they finally added almost all the features there lately), while Teams well, yes, it sucks.
Did Zoom fix window sharing with Wayland?
I think that got fixed a couple of months back but, like pretty much any other working wayland screen sharing, you need pipewire running (which your DE may do for you depending what you use).
Re: Show HN: Beesy – Record Google Meets for free, download locally
#44I'm genuinely curious of Google will allow this to stay up, seeing as saving Meet recordings is a feature that belongs to the paid tier of Meet (Workspace). Not that they'd probably justify a takedown with that, but more that it could be used to record meeting participants without their consent. Which is actually a big deal -- all videoconferencing software I'm aware of puts up a big notice and indicator that you are…
People who are going to use this plugin is not Google's target audience for the paid tier. No companies which makes a non trivial amount of money are going to use this plugin instead of buying Google's paid plan. If you work in a company which will be going to use this plugin, get out of the company immediately and find a new job.
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