In using runRenderingContext I am seeing inconsistent results in how the video is or isn’t mirrored. E.g: On a Mac Zoom client (latest version), the canvas is mirrored, but the camera video (rendered via drawParticipant ) is not mirrored On a Windows Zoom client (latest version), nothing seems to …

Solved it by using drawParticipant(cameraModeMirroring: true)

A little more context after playing with this further: In the Zoom client Preferences, in the Video section there is a checkbox for “Mirror my video.” When this is checked, both the user’s camera and anything rendered (eg with drawWebView) will be mirrored. For any use case I can think of, this re…

@vandalayindustries , Welcome to the Developer Forum! Thank you for sharing this feedback and I am sorry to hear about your experience. I can see how the consent dialog may be impactful to UX. However, it is my understanding that the consent dialogue is expected behavior. I do not believe there…

Hi @donte.zoom thanks for the detailed reply. Just a few follow up notes of seemingly low hanging fruit: Currently, there are no Zoom Apps mirrored events. Would be helpful to have this come along with the config information. Use case: anyone looking to render any sort of text will want to know …

Thanks for raising this issue about detecting the state of the video mirror effect of the user! This does look like a gap in our API. We will discuss internally, but will likely plan to add additional endpoints to retrieve the state of the video mirror setting. Unfortunately, this new endpoint may h…

Thanks for chiming in @leon.cheng ! – You raised great points about the video mirror effect of the user, @vandalayindustries ! As shared, this topic will be discussed internally. In the meantime, please do let us know of any other requests you might have now—we’re here to listen! Also, you can st…

Thanks @leon.cheng and @donte.zoom , glad this made it through to the right folks. I will stay on the lookout for updates.

You’re welcome, @vandalayindustries ! We appreciate your feedback and it does not go unnoticed. It is valuable information for our whole team, so please do not hesitate to reach out with any further comments or questions.

@donte.zoom @leon.cheng I would like to echo the need for being able to tell if a user has their camera mirrored or not. The use case we need it for is using the Layers API to overlay content. Currently if the user has the video mirrored then the overlay content will appear flipped backwards which …

Inconsistent video mirroring, and nonsensical dialogs with setVideoMirrorEffect

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donte.zoom (Donte) December 10, 2024, 7:31pm 11

Thanks for sharing your solution @Mikron ! Here is the link to the Zoom App reference, which includes an example of drawParticipant(cameraModeMirroring: true) implementation:

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Inconsistent video mirroring, and nonsensical dialogs with setVideoMirrorEffect

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