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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!
Vanphys the 'flipping' thing is not an issue.
Teams will show only you a mirrored image of your webcam, the idea being that it's actually very confusing to look at your self not mirrored. We only really ever see ourselves that way round.
Teams will show anyone else your image the right way round, as that's how they are used to seeing you.
I appreciate it's confusing when using the camera to show something other than your video, but you can trust that your students are not seeing things flipped.
StevenC365 Indeed you're correct. I did a test from another account and sure enough it appears 'normal' to the external viewer. For some reason It's just a little more disorienting to see a mirrored image that we know is coming from an external camera. But I can see why it happens.
It doesn't matter much to see myself mirrored, but if I am pushing a software app through my Blackmagic ATEM switcher (that my computer thinks is a webcam), it too is flipped. That's annoying. Even though I know it's normal to the audience, I have to look at the Teams window image with mirrored PowerPoint text. It's annoying we can't turn off that 'feature' in Teams.
Agreed this is very poor to teach with. I as well use an ATEM mini as I teach in a technical environment and use multiple camera angles and PPT from a second computer. This makes TEAMS almost useless to teach with. ZOOM is what I have been using without issue as it has the flip screen option. The resolution from teams is better but I cannot move over until this gets fixed. Anyone using the camera as a document camera through a capture card will find this impossible to work with. MICROSOFT please PLEASE fix this.
Greg_Chesterton Definitely a reasonable request, the way to tell Microsoft is through Uservoice, try adding your scenario. The more fully the benefit is explained the easier it is for the developers to see the issue.
