In my quest for better video conference quality, I discovered a way to use my iPhone 11 Pro as a webcam. The quality is way better than my existing Logitech. Still some tweaking to do, but very promising.
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Details pls... front or rear camera?
Jonathan LaCour
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It supports both! There are a bunch of apps that make this possible, but I’ve been using EpocCam HD. kinoni.com If you want it to work with Zoom, you have to do some CLI tinkering: codesign --remove-signature /Applications/zoom.us.app/
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@cleverdevil I’m in the middle of a search for apps to enable this. I’ve found about a dozen so far but nothing that works well. Please share how you’re doing it when you get a moment!
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@fgtech the app I am using (so far) is EpocCam HD. It seems to work nicely, especially when the iPhone is plugged in via a lightning cable. It also works over Wi-Fi, but with lower frame rates and more latency. If you want to use it with Zoom, you’ll need to install XCode and “unsign” the application using this command: codesign --remove-signature /Applications/zoom.us.app/
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@cleverdevil Ahh.. I had given up on EpocCam as broken, but didn’t know the “unsign” trick. Thanks!
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How's latency? I tried to duct tape this together with some RTSP streamer android app and v4l2loopback (FUSE for v4l2!) and couldn't get below ~100ms of latency, which ended up being too annoying, so I gave up and learned to love the lame 720p cam in my X1 carbon.
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I haven’t measured it, but to my eye it’s pretty impressive. Definitely not perfect, but better than I expected.
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Weather at time/location of posting — Partly Cloudy with a temperature of 67.78°F and 74% humidity.
Details pls... front or rear camera?
It supports both! There are a bunch of apps that make this possible, but I’ve been using EpocCam HD. kinoni.com If you want it to work with Zoom, you have to do some CLI tinkering: codesign --remove-signature /Applications/zoom.us.app/
@cleverdevil I’m in the middle of a search for apps to enable this. I’ve found about a dozen so far but nothing that works well. Please share how you’re doing it when you get a moment!
@fgtech the app I am using (so far) is EpocCam HD. It seems to work nicely, especially when the iPhone is plugged in via a lightning cable. It also works over Wi-Fi, but with lower frame rates and more latency.
If you want to use it with Zoom, you’ll need to install XCode and “unsign” the application using this command:
codesign --remove-signature /Applications/zoom.us.app/
@cleverdevil Ahh.. I had given up on EpocCam as broken, but didn’t know the “unsign” trick. Thanks!
How's latency? I tried to duct tape this together with some RTSP streamer android app and v4l2loopback (FUSE for v4l2!) and couldn't get below ~100ms of latency, which ended up being too annoying, so I gave up and learned to love the lame 720p cam in my X1 carbon.
I haven’t measured it, but to my eye it’s pretty impressive. Definitely not perfect, but better than I expected.