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Webcam image is horizontally flipped
Hi,
When you see your selfview in Teams it will be flipped, so it is easier for you. But when the other participants in the meeting see your video they will see it the correct way. So text will be mirrored for you but the correct way for others.
I am trying - in these trying times (Covid 19) to use "teams" to teach. Unfortunately my laptop camera is in the wrong position to video me writing on paper. However, my little tablet has a better camera, and records beautiful videos (no lateral inversion) of my lesson. However, I want to do this live! Spent the whole of yesterday attempting this.
The teams app in the play store for use on my android tablet (free) - does not have video conferencing at all, (no little camera anywhere, not even in top right hand corner). The web browser version of office 365 teams, is doing this flipping thin, and also has huge delay that more often than not times out and the video picture is not collected at all.
Finally I have installed AirDroid - a beautiful little program that will transfer the screen image of the tablet into the desktop - the right way round (AirDroid mirror). However, there is some deterioration in the picture quality - so I would like the office 365 teams android app - which I have now requested 5 times - but get no download link sent to me. I assume the correct app, will not reverse the image.
I do hope that someone from Microsoft can answer this before I start teaching on Monday!
I have been helping my mom to conduct her math lessons with whiteboard, and experienced the same problem. The writing was flipped. I tried Google Hangouts and Teams, and even though I could rotate the view on the USB camera software, this would not replicate in the Hangouts or Teams clients, which was very frustrating. I ended up using Zoom, because the desktop client has a rotate button in the Camera settings, allowing you to adjust the view so that the students don't need to read backwards. The downside is that the free account has a 40mins cap for group meetings, but it is the only app which solved the rotation problem. Hope Microsoft will look into this asap.
No one needs to read backwards in Teams, it will show you a preview that is mirrored as that's more normal to look at when it's your video, but specifically other people will see your video the normal way round. Just ignore the preview!
