France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US

Re:France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital auton... by prmoustache on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @06:42PM (#46879091)

> You just can't use any background pictures or effects.

Thanksfully it is fairly easy to present a virtual webcam that is a composition of what your real physical webcam is showing and whatever background you want.

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Re:France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital auton... by distances on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @04:15PM (#46891887)

Can you give some pointers about this? I thought it's straight to kernel modules territory if I want a virtual webcam.

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Re:France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital auton... by prmoustache on Friday February 06, 2026 @04:59AM (#46910983)

you can do it with ffmpeg but the most user friendly way is to use obs.

https://obsproject.com/kb/virtual-camera-guide

https://usercomp.com/news/1413136/ffmpeg-virtual-camera-guid...

I used that back in the days in 2019 / early 2020 when it was not yet possible to share your screen on msteams under wayland in chrome and firefox.

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Re:France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital auton... by distances on Saturday February 07, 2026 @05:38AM (#46922790)

Thanks!

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