Questions[video-streaming](ubuntu)

With COVID-19 pandemic there was a boom of video conferencing. Although there are good free and open source alternatives like Jitsi (with e2ee coming soon), Zoom became popular. Is not a secret that have some privacy issues (EFF, ProtonMail Blog, The Guardian, The Verge).

For the ones forced to install it, it would be nice to have a friendly way to install it and run it without giving up privacy so easily. Maybe using it inside a sandbox like firejail (there is a zoom profile), selecting file system access.

If installed using snap package: It's worth noting that even removing "Play and record sound" from Permissions on Ubuntu software it's still can play and record sound. IMO a serious security bug on snapd/snappy/snap-store. Maybe this wouldn't happen on Wayland?

Also, audio-record connection (AKA interface) shouldn't auto-connect, but people behind snap store override this rule on purpose.

I think it has been known for a good while that Amazon Prime Video is SD only on system running anything other than Windows and MAC: https://www.primevideo.com/help?nodeId=GUX9FYHU5D8LC9EJ

Is there a way to work around this limit? It'd be a shame having to use a virtual machine running Windows (if it even works) to just watch Prime video.

Every single time I am on a meeting on Google Meets, my Ubuntu crashes. The sound and mouse keep working, but the screen freezes. I use Opera Web Browser, and in addition to the browser with Google Meet running, I usually have atom and the terminal itself running - not a big deal.

Does anyone have a clue of why that is happening and how to fix it? Could it be a problem with Opera or Google Meets specifically? And when the screen freezes, what should I do? Ctrl + alt + del to force quit Opera?

Thank you in advance :)

I want to use the webcam on my laptop as video device on my pc to use it for video conferencing etc.

So I not just want to stream the video. I actually want to "stream" the entire device over network.

So, two computers, one streams its webcam, the other picks it up as video device.

Both computes run normal Ubuntu 18.04 however I will soon upgrade to 20.04

I am using the latest updated Ubuntu 12.04 and I would like to know how I can stream my second monitor to an RTMP address. (Twitch.tv)

Is there any kind of streaming on Linux I can set up, or an up to date guide that shows how to do it in 12.04?