Global keyboard shortcut to pause/unpause video stream
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Alexander Dietz
It is a great feature of VCam.ai to pause the video stream by pressing the appropriate button in the desktop app. In video conference sessions you can easily eat a bit, get a coffee, etc. while the others do not necessary recognize and also it is not as "disturbing" like switching off your video stream, then enabling it again later on. Somehow it feels like "mute/unmute" we are used to for the audio stream. But: It would be great to have the option to define a global hotkey to pause/unpause the stream to avoid searching for the window of the VCam.ai desktop app, then pressing the button there. Other apps like ManyCam have this implemented and - when I was using this software back in time - it is a very handy feature...
Martin Price
Alexander Dietz - there is some talk about global hotkeys in this discussion: https://feedback.vcam.ai/feature-requests/p/add-support-for-the-elgato-stream-deck
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Alexander Dietz
Many thanks, Martin Price, for pointing me to this other thread - it would be indeed great to have the (global) keyboard shortcut in the first „round“, then getting a deeper API based integration possibility for Stream Deck & Co. This should help to get VCam more popular over time and differentiated from the other tools… Great to see, that Jon Young already expressed a thinking into this direction :-)