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Webcam image is horizontally flipped
When video conferencing in Teams the image is flipped horizontally. I cannot find any options to flip the image to the correct orientation like you can do in Skype 4 Business.
Any news on when this functionality is coming?
Thanks
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 have this same problem, outputting from Logitech Capture with text on screen flips to backwards on broadcast. If I flip in Capture, Teams still reverses the text overlay. Can we please just have a self view that's actually the view going out over Teams, with an option to reverse it? Technodude
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But until Microsoft adds some settings for this at least the viewers will see the picture correct and you will see it as a mirror.
- Agreed, this is exactly what should be done.
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.
This is incorrect. Other participants in the meeting are seeing a horizontally flipped image as well.
The video recording of the meeting we just had is the correct way round bizzarely!
- Sheez... I'm glad I found this thread. I've been putting flips into my ffmpeg/gstreamer/obs loopback streams to work around this problem... and now I find Microsoft thinks users are using their cam and Teams as a mirror.
At the very least, they should add a "mirrored locally only" disclaimer where they now have "preview" in the device settings.My webcam image is upside down on ms teams. how can this be fixed?
how is this the solution?
it is NOT easier for me when flipped....everyone says its harder but microsoft does not care about its customers
My actual problem was that in distance learning sessions I wanted to draw/write something quickly for my students on a sheet of paper, and with auto-mirror it's useless.
Here comes the workaround.
I have an additional (external) USB camera, which is a cheap Logitech C270, and after having installed the Logitech software I discovered that the image is still mirrored in the Teams video session, but NOT in the default Windows camera application. So, I do the following:
I open the Camera App and select the USB camera as its input. Next, I let the Teams share my desktop instead of showing the video connection (which is still handled - in mirror mode - by the built-in front webcam). Now, the students (and myself) can see the non-flipped picture, taken from the Camera App on my desktop. In fact, I can switch back and forth between the desktop mode and the video mode - whenever I want the students to admire my face instead of my drawings.
One can do the same trick with any other external camera and any app that does not mirror the camera input, in contrast to Teams. I know this does not answer your basic question, but may be of some help.
- To manage in a more convenient manner the image i'm sending I'm using « ManyCam » which allows to mirror webcam inputs. Anyhow extra content (such as a timer, a ticker, ...) is not meant to be added flipped. Thus to go around Teams limitations I'm sharing the output screen, which isn't the ideal solution.
Can't Microsoft add, as in most VC software a setting under « Devices » : « Camera » to un-flip the output ? 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.
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!
The right preview is very important, it cannot be ignored. You want to make sure you look properly to others. That is different to looking at the mirror where your goal is to show your face to yourself only. There is nothing odd in seeing preview the way other people see it. Apps that implement a toggle call the views "Normal" and "Mirrored". Did you get it - "Mirrored" is not "Normal"!
So, how to make it "Normal" in Teams?
Ok, here's the deal. My comment was not because I insist on seeing myself unmirrored. It was a simple concern that maybe I was being broadcast in reverse, which is a problem if you are sharing content that can't be read (words) if reversed.
Here's my setup: I have a mixer that takes in multiple sources and outputs whichever one I select into the computer for broadcasting. In my example, I have 2 sources (my webcam and a separate computer with powerpoint) being pumped through the mixer. With the mixer plugged into my computer, Teams detects the mixer as a webcam -- no matter what content happens to be coming out of the mixer. So, when I see my preview on my Teams display, it is reversed -- even if it happens to be my powerpoint content. It's a lot more disconcerting to see that being previewed in reverse -- it made me wonder whether in fact the powerpoint content was being broadcast reversed. It turns out it isn't, so it's not a problem in the end. HOWEVER! It would be nice if I could switch to non-mirrored mode for some reassurance.
Not enough features built into the video settings- need adjustable soft focus, and ability to flip background and always make it "what you see is what they get". In other words, just copy Zoom already!
Thank you.
Now, where is that post button? Sigh....
- @all, I have quite the opposite problem -- the webcam image where I see myself is NOT mirrored.
I find this incredibly disturbing because I believe that I look terrible (this happens to many people when they see themselves NOT mirrored, as they are used to in the mirror).
I have a Logitech HD webcam. So where can I set this up in order for ME to see myself MIRRORED?
Thanks heapsDavidGP Check if you have any Logitech software install that have the mirror settings activated in that software.
http://www.rawinfopages.com/tips/2014/04/choose-normal-or-flipped-webcam-images/
Thanks Linus,
that worked. I had to download the Logitech Capture software for this
https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/capture
...because the older LogiDPPApp.exe driver that seems to have been installed automatically by Windows Plug and Play (when plugging in the camera for the first time) wouldn't have that feature:
https://i.imgur.com/LMTHehG.png
https://i.imgur.com/WWTZ5WR.png
Now at least I look somewhat less terrible on my own screen.
Cheers
David
- I still have this issue with the video image being flipped from my laptop. I don't have any options to correct the issue and change the rotation of the image that displays as upside down.
Technodude I resolved this issue by editing the picture to be a 16:9 ratio to match my webcam image. Give that a try and see if it works for you!
