Hey thanks for your great post. I had a suggestion based on an issue I ran across.

Here: https://github.com/BenTheElder/site/blame/master/content/posts/open-source-virtual-background.md#L479

You have a section as follows:

    while mask is None:
        try:
            mask = get_mask(frame)
        except:
            print("mask request failed, retrying")

The way it's written causes issues when the system tries to kill the process through either another process sending a kill signal or a user sending CTRL+C.

Catching only requests.RequestExceptions should take care of what you're after while not also swallowing kill signals.

    while mask is None:
        try:
            mask = get_mask(frame)
        except requests.RequestException:
            print("mask request failed, retrying")

If you've been using this script yourself you should notice that it is a whole lot easier to kill the script.

Hello, I stumbled upon your blog post https://elder.dev/posts/open-source-virtual-background/
And I didn't find a mail or some better way to reach out so I created this issue (feel free to delete)

I am just a random guy who like open source so when I saw your post I had this idea :

Do you know Jitsi ? They build a thing like Zoom but open source ! As you have done the virtual background and I saw Jitsi still need this feature : https://community.jitsi.org/t/virtual-backgrounds-using-green-screen/31173

I would just like to drop the idea here so you can maybe show your work to them, get in touch and hopefully integrate virtual background in Jitsi, which would be an amazing thing for the community.

Anyway this is your call now, I just wanted to make sure that you know about this opportunity.

Have a nice day :)

And amazing job btw

Sorry to contact you through this issue! But short of sending you an email, I don't really know how else to contact you since I don't have twitter!

I thought this virtual background you implemented was super cool! I unfortunately couldn't understand all of your steps so I was wondering if you'd considering sharing the code/steps on a github repo? I think it would actually help a lot of people that have Linux but also wanna have decent virtual background in Zoom meetings. So far I haven't been able to get anything to work and it seems like your solution is pretty cool.

Thanks!