A very good video showing exactly how to setup your Android phone (probably iOS if you have apps to output in a similar manner) as an input device for a whiteboard, to demo an application, or even act as a webcam if you don’t have one. One of Derek’s previous videos explains how to output OBS Studio directly into Zoom or similar video conferencing.
This is the type of functionality many people may require with working from home and it can be done with what you already have and not costing anything extra.
OBS Studio has the advantage of being able to resize, crop, tweak sound levels for different sources, replace backgrounds, and much more. Many gamers already use it for their live streaming to Twitch.
It’s time the rest of us who are stuck in a 2IR world embrace a bit of 3IR to work remotely. I’m certainly enjoying learning more about OBS Studio from Derek in these videos. OBS Studio is free and open source software of a professional quality that works across Linux, Windows and MacOS.
Watch at Using a smartphone as an input source for OBS during live streaming and recording on Ubuntu Linux
Smartphones are fairly capable devices that can be used to do many different tasks. For example a Galaxy Note can be used as a whiteboard using any number of…