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Great read! I am curious then why the Linux client doesn't supports this, if all it takes is to send out our webcam stream data to be processed server-side?

P.S. What happens when they do e2ee on the webcam stream?

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Why use expensive server side processing when you can do it for free on the client? Doing it on the client could theoretically save bandwidth, if the background was a changing scene.

Obviously Zoom isn't end to end encrypted, it's client-server encrypted.

I think server side processing is really not a good idea for this. Zoom is really seeing a lot of use right now. It would not be sustainable for them to not take advantage of all the computing power of the clients.

I am thinking the same now. The OP solution requires a server to do the the processing, but I am not sure this is the case for the Zoom client.

The Zoom client also requires minimal hardware requirements from the processor iirc.

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