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Example background filter for the Amazon Chime SDK

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Example background filter for the Amazon Chime SDK - Amazon Chime SDK

The following example shows how to implement the filters.

import { VideoFxConfig, VideoFxTypeConversion, VideoTransformDevice, DefaultVideoTransformDevice, Logger, VideoFxProcessor, MeetingSession } from 'amazon-chime-sdk-js'; let videoTransformDevice: VideoTransformDevice | undefined = undefined; let videoFxProcessor: VideoFxProcessor | undefined = undefined; const videoFxConfig: VideoFxConfig = { backgroundBlur: { isEnabled: false, strength: "medium" }, backgroundReplacement: { isEnabled: false, backgroundImageURL: 'space.jpg', defaultColor: undefined, } } export const addEffectsToMeeting = async (videoInputDevice: MediaDeviceInfo, meetingSession: MeetingSession, logger: Logger): Promise<void> => { try { videoFxProcessor = await VideoFxProcessor.create(logger, videoFxConfig); } catch (error) { logger.error(error.toString()); return; } videoTransformDevice = new DefaultVideoTransformDevice( logger, videoInputDevice, [videoFxProcessor] ); await meetingSession.audioVideo.startVideoInput(videoTransformDevice); } export const enableReplacement = async (logger: Logger) => { videoFxConfig.backgroundBlur.isEnabled = false; videoFxConfig.backgroundReplacement.isEnabled = true; await updateVideoFxConfig(videoFxConfig, logger); } export const enableBlur = async (logger: Logger) => { videoFxConfig.backgroundReplacement.isEnabled = false; videoFxConfig.backgroundBlur.isEnabled = true; await updateVideoFxConfig(videoFxConfig, logger); } export const pauseEffects = async (logger: Logger) => { videoFxConfig.backgroundReplacement.isEnabled = false; videoFxConfig.backgroundBlur.isEnabled = false; await updateVideoFxConfig(videoFxConfig, logger); } export const setReplacementImage = async (newImageUrl: string, logger: Logger) => { videoFxConfig.backgroundReplacement.backgroundImageURL = newImageUrl; videoFxConfig.backgroundReplacement.defaultColor = undefined; await updateVideoFxConfig(videoFxConfig, logger); } export const setReplacementDefaultColor = async (newHexColor: string, logger: Logger) => { videoFxConfig.backgroundReplacement.defaultColor = newHexColor; videoFxConfig.backgroundReplacement.backgroundImageURL = undefined; await updateVideoFxConfig(videoFxConfig, logger); } export const setBlurStrength = async (newStrength: number, logger: Logger) => { videoFxConfig.backgroundBlur.strength = VideoFxTypeConversion.useBackgroundBlurStrengthType(newStrength); await updateVideoFxConfig(videoFxConfig, logger); } export const updateVideoFxConfig = async (config: VideoFxConfig, logger: Logger) => { try { await videoFxProcessor.setEffectConfig(videoFxConfig); } catch (error) { logger.error(error.toString()) } } export const turnOffEffects = () => { const innerDevice = await videoTransformDevice?.intrinsicDevice(); await videoTransformDevice?.stop(); videoTransformDevice = undefined; videoFxProcessor = undefined; await meetingSession.audioVideo.startVideoInput(innerDevice); }
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