Mirror your own video so it's not disoreinting

What would one need to do to implement this? Sorry, I am not familiar with various components so I apologize if this is the wrong bug tracker.

It would be good if the user could choose to mirror or not, per video stream.

If you are using a document camera you don't want it to be mirrored.

If you are looking at yourself, you probably do want it to be mirrored.

Jitsi Meet calls the feature Flip as shown in the image below

When implemented, should the option's string be Mirror video and Unmirror video?
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/turn-off-mirror-my-video-in-microsoft-teams-meetings-to-match/ba-p/3114332

The default for Jami seems to be not mirrored (great for document camera)

The default for Jitsi Meet seems to be mirrored (great for self view)

Probably need to move this to the jami-client-qt

Thank you

I do agree, most users are used now to have mirror-like orientation in the preview of the front camera (should not apply to back camera)

https://review.jami.net/c/jami-daemon/+/16976 ?

Not mirrored also useful when pointing the camera at a whiteboard/blackboard
https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/6863

From personal experience with teaching staff, it's important, that they see themselves as other participants see them.

Think of a teacher during a lesson. If the writing on the blackboard is mirrored, he will worry, that some students will see mirrored letters on the blackboard as well. Panic will ensue and 15 minutes of the lecture are gone.

Don't worry, if implemented it would be optional. We are aware that both modes have their own use cases.

mentioned in issue jami-project#285 (closed)

Should this issue be moved to https://git.jami.net/savoirfairelinux/jami-client-qt?

Zoom calls this feature Mirror my video as shown in the image below

mentioned in issue #1251 (closed)

mentioned in issue jami-client-android#959 (closed)

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https://review.jami.net/c/jami-client-qt/+/23563 - client only flip

Not sure if we should actually create a new ticket - but can you please also allow to mirror your own video - Multistream: select "just" your camera or both your camera and your shared screen - so that the OTHER peers will also view this video modified?

Same when it comes to rotating: Can you also allow to just rotate your "real" camera but not your shared screen or rotate the "real" camera 90° and your shared screen 180°?

Because until now you need a virtual camera.

Hi @El4 ,

This patch is client side only and introduces a local mirroring only for the camera video that is not transmitted to other peers. Your suggestion to allow different levels of transformation (mirror, rotation, etc) and transmitting it would require a daemon change too.

IMHO it is something very nice to offer but that also is out of the Jami scope and would be better suited for a plugin. @aberaud what do you think?

Will it become possible to rotate your own preview (if it makes sense; I think Windows itself rotates the screen if you are using a vertical monitor) -without any distortions?

assigned to @aberaud

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mentioned in commit jami-daemon@977ee99c

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