

This will stop emoticons from showing up in your. In the right pane uncheck Show emoticons and then Save. It would be great if Shadow were to build in pre-compression of webcam footage to make these useable. Go to Tools > Options IM & SMS and then select IM appearance. Unfortunately this introduces about 15s of delay though so was unacceptable as a solution. Type the code directly into your chat box to make use of the emoticon. Until I found this solution I experimented with streaming via OBS and YouTube from the local PC as there is a lot more control over the bitrate of the video feed. Skype's hidden emoticons So, here are some of the useful codes for 'Skype's hidden emoticons' that you won't just get from their emoticons Menu 1 To use: Choose the emoticon you wish to use from the image below. It’s also almost realtime with max 1s delay in the feed which is necessary with online meetings. This setup seems to use 1-2Mbit upload speed and doesn’t seem to impact the lag of Shadow noticeably. I use the microphone functionality of Shadow separately to capture that but it could easily be captured through the Skype feed. On the Shadow I then join the Skype meeting room and use OBS to capture the window and provide a software webcam on Shadow which can then be used in any other application. Local PC uses the webcam and the sets up a Skype meeting room with the webcam footage.

Using the straight USB over IP functionality of Shadow is no good as the uncompressed video feed of the webcam (in this case just a simple Logitech c270) overwhelms the upload capacity of the connection and introduces tearing in the webcam footage and lag in the rest of the experience. I have a Shadow Ghost and various other devices and laptops that I can run shadow on. I’m interested to know what setups you all have to use a webcam with Shadow?įor my part I have a 50Mbit down / 8Mbit up home connection.
