Post #3203073
2026-04-28 15:07 UTC
@jcsteh@aus.social This does work fairly well, and I absolutely agree with you, it's slow but usable. I generally do it with the NVDA add-ons rather than with BME https://superuser.com/questions/1744688/how-can-i-view-the-video-coming-in-from-a-capture-card-on-windows-in-full-screen allows you to hook your capture card up to a browser if it appears to Windows as a camera. The video is shown in the browser window. The problem, both with BME and the add-ons, is hallucination. It actually doesn't happen terribly often but it does happen. If you'd like to avoid it, and have someone remote, you can actually use VNC. Just have the video appear in the window, and have the guy on the other end VNC into the laptop. You can then have the other side tell you what are currently selected and what to do to select the options you want. Alternatively, and this is more expensive though easier, you might like to try https://modularkvmip.com/ or https://www.pikvm.org/ I only use these because I had them for other purposes. As I said, it's more expensive and I don't see the point just for UEFI. @jonathan859@someplace.social
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@jcsteh@aus.social 2026-04-28 20:59
@techsinger@tweesecake.social @jonathan859@someplace.social Haha, I used a browser to view the camera as well, but I was lazy and just found some quick and dirty tool originally designed to be used as a full screen makeup mirror. 😂 Yeah, I was definitely wary of halucinations. I moved around and reprompted a few times to try to guard against that, but it's always a risk. Aside from VNC, I could have just called someone with WhatsApp videoor whatever, since it's exposed as a camera, but I didn't have anyone to call at the time. It's a shame BME desktop doesn't have the video call functionality.