Submitted: Hey all. I have a question that occurred to me recently. We have the ability to connect with Skype users both into our building and potentially anywhere else. We would use this capability to show "live reports" of things that are happening elsewhere.
Anyway, can anyone think of an easy way to bring a Skype feed into VC? Perhaps putting it into a virtual window (PIP) and then having it "grow" to full screen?
I'd think that VC would need to see this Skype feed as another camera source, and since you can have up to 3 cams, why not make the skype feed camera 2 or 3?
To accomplish this though, you'd need to have a separate PC running skype, and that PC would need to have a TV-video out capability on its video card. Let's call this computer b. Then feed computer b into a Canopus firewire converter box. Now connect the canopus box as a firewire device onto your computer running Visual Communicator. VC will think this is a live cam, when it's really the skype video feed from another computer...
Make sense? I love these Canopus firewire converters as now you can make ANY video device a camera feed in Visual Communicator! New or old cams work, no need to find just the right firewire camera anymore...
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