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Re: Mmhmm

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Post by ficklepickle »

petters wrote: post #49
kendallgclark wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OBS Studio. It's very powerful, classic open source, with a not amazing UI, but, it does everything mmhmm does and a lot more. I use both every day.

I tried OBS studio, but could not figure out how to use it properly. Ended up using Xsplit Vcam instead, which is really good. I think I managed to remove the background in a really, really crud way with OBS studio. Like using a chroma key (green screen). But Xplit does it with any noisy apartment background.

Xsplit offers an integration with OBS, too.

https://www.xsplit.com/partners/obs

Re: Mmhmm

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Post by pgwhalen »

echelon wrote: post #32
flixic wrote: post #23

I like this approach. Everything it does can be achieved by OBS with a couple of plugins, but this is a very user-friendly packaging of great looking presets: use cases over technology. Also, super fun name.

I asked someone in a stream what app they were using, and it took a long explanation to describe that it was "mmhmm". They couldn't say it, they literally had to spell it out. It's kind of bad for discovery. Still, it's blowing up.

> It's kind of bad for discovery.

I made the opposite conclusion from your anecdote.

> it took a long explanation to describe

This strikes me as a good thing for this sort of product.

Re: Mmhmm

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Post by ljm »

Bishonen88 wrote: post #66
fxtentacle wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who has previously worked on real time audio apps on Mac, I find the price justified. Supporting MacOS with anything that needs kernel drivers requires constant updates and the potential market is so small that it kind of needs to be expensive per customer or else you need to cut corners with the quality. Windows has 5x the market share, so there you can sell for 80% less per user because you'll sell more…

in most cases, tools with subscriptions do not need more maintenance than products with a one-time purchase (don't know anything about this specific case, so dunno if it applies here). It's just that after adobe/jetbrains and others opened pandoras box, slowly but surely more and more devs try to make their tools to a continuous income stream... It get's really silly to the point that a snipping app has a yearly subs…

Typically also done by forcing some 'cloud sync' into it and then using that to justify the switch, moving control of your data into their hands and holding it hostage.

That was enough for me to ditch 1password in favour of bitwarden.

Re: Mmhmm

#85

Post by beaugunderson »

I use mmhmm to share my screen as a camera in Zoom--this lets me share both my face and the text editor I use for meeting agendas in a way that lets everyone else see each other instead of just my shared screen.

That said, screen sharing hasn't worked since the app update released on the 16th and I'm finding it impossible to get a response from mmhmm's support (or anyone that works there, honestly).

Re: Mmhmm

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Post by cube2222 »

I've been using it for the few last days, doing onboarding for new employees.

So far I really like both how easy it is to record the sessions with it, as well as how I can quickly switch between sharing my computer screen and iPad screen (using AirServer).

A nice addition being that the recordings will contain my head talking in the corner of the screen.

Re: Mmhmm

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Post by koalalorenzo »

AlexB138 wrote: post #74

I played with Mmhmm during beta. It's a simpler to use OBS, from what I can tell. It's good for some laughs. They just came out of beta and announced that it would cost $9.99/month. I was pretty shocked to see a recurring fee for such a simple app, which, from what I could tell, offers nothing new over a long establish FOSS project. It strikes me as more of a one time $10 purchase. Would really like to hear how they…

What is the FOSS project you are talking about? Anything on GitHub/GitLab worth time looking into?

Re: Mmhmm

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Post by zarmin »

gnicholas wrote: post #47

I tried this during the beta. Unfortunately, as others experienced, the resolution is severely limited in certain applications (I used Zoom). Zoom compresses the stream as if it’s video, when it’s in fact a slide. I discovered this when I was setting up for a very important presentation and had about 5 minutes to go to a fallback plan. I was pretty upset that there was no warning about this, since they were totally a…

I'm let down that you tried out new presentation software live during a very important presentation.

Re: Mmhmm

#90

Post by fxtentacle »

Bishonen88 wrote: post #66
fxtentacle wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who has previously worked on real time audio apps on Mac, I find the price justified. Supporting MacOS with anything that needs kernel drivers requires constant updates and the potential market is so small that it kind of needs to be expensive per customer or else you need to cut corners with the quality. Windows has 5x the market share, so there you can sell for 80% less per user because you'll sell more…

in most cases, tools with subscriptions do not need more maintenance than products with a one-time purchase (don't know anything about this specific case, so dunno if it applies here). It's just that after adobe/jetbrains and others opened pandoras box, slowly but surely more and more devs try to make their tools to a continuous income stream... It get's really silly to the point that a snipping app has a yearly subs…

While I agree with you in general, this tool appears to rely on a kernel extension for their virtual Webcam. And that creates a lot of additional and ongoing maintenance work.
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