GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 639353
Empathy should mirror webcam video stream
Last modified: 2011-07-06 07:56:48 UTC
"When viewing the webcam feed of myself during a video call, it's very unnatural to see the actual image being sent to my friend. I am used to the mirrored image from Google Talk Video, Kopete, and most other chat clients. Mirroring the video feed makes the image far more intuitive to interact with (Because it's like looking into a mirror!), and Empathy should allow for it. Obviously, the video feed that's sent to the person on the other end should not be mirrored, but the one shown to the local user in front of the camera should be." originally reported at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/598540
I think that makes sense.
Seems the official Skype client is doing that as well.
Agreed! How about this? http://cgit.collabora.com/git/user/pochu/empathy.git/log/?h=flip-video-639353
Looks good, it will use a bit more CPU, but I guess it's not dramatic. And we have to remember to remove it if/when we move the UI to something like clutter (it's cheaper to have the CPU do the flippage)
Merged, thanks!