Jitsi-meet: Screensharing infinitely loops

[tmcgee123]

Currently, if you choose Your Entire Screen, the sharing goes Inception mode and infinitely pulls in the screen sharer's window

Also, not sure if it's important, but we are using the atlassian.video room for the meet

[damencho]

This is a known effect, it is like if you put two mirrors next to each other there is nothing we can do about the image that loops in the mirrors :)
Normally the presenter that is sharing its screen shows a page, presentation or its desktop and does not show the meeting that the other participants already are looking at. A workaround is to click on someone else's video to avoid the mirror effect.

[L4mPi2]

Hi @damencho ! Sorry to bother you, is there any way to do something like this?
Let's say i click screen sharing, would it be possible to not show my own window until i pick what exactly i want to share? So, nothing displays until i've chosen tab or window or app ?
Thanks in advance

[damencho]

@L4mPi2 I suppose it is possible, but you need to modify either chrome, either Firefox, submit to them a patch and wait for it to be released accepted and pushed to their stable release.
Another option is to implement this in jitsi-meet-eletron-utils and use it with jitsi-meet-electron.

[L4mPi2]

Thanks @damencho I think i could explore your latter suggestion. I'm not very familiar with electron. i'm trying to have a built-in chat within my app but i wanted to prevent this infinite window self-mirroring because clients think it's a bug, and i'm tired of saying that's not a bug, so i'm desperate to find a workaround to ease my client's UX.

[mikehenken]

+1: Other screenshare and conference tools do not have this issue. It is a bug that looks unprofessional in client meetings.

[ChristineBoersen]

Here's what I'm testing locally to work around it. Add this to your css (or into your build for the css).
This only fixes when in tile mode.
If viewing in full screen mode, AND viewing the browser window, you will still get the mirror effect (and doubt there is a way around that)

// HACK to prevent mirror effect when sharing whole screen

localVideoTileViewContainer {

display: none !important;

}

[JeromeDeGresy]

I confirm two things :

• Jitsi is pretty awesome
• The only disturbing issue is this infinite mirror loop effect

[insightllcio]

Hi, would it be possible for the presenters tile to always only show their camera feed? We do split 75/25 presenting and a camera-only feed in the tile would work for us. We do the split to allow the presenter to remain in video.

[nagkumar]

How to handle this.. that way it is so pathetic, basic screen share messes it all..not usable at all..

[utrotzek]

In my opinion, the own shared screen should simply not be visible in the own frontend at all. Maybe a placeholder icon "Sharing screen" should be displayed. This would avoid the mirroring effect when accidentally opening the jetsi session while sharing the screen.

[shaileshjadav]

I am facing same issue with dolby conference tool. any one can help me?