Video conferencing
Video streams are another thing altogether! They are a complex sequence of values that describe how an image (the "screen") changes over time. You have a streaming movie (or a webcam feed) at 1920x1080 pixel resolution. Each one of those pixels, or most of them (very rarely all of them), can change value (of color, brightness, etc) at each point in time. So, the samples at each point in time are not representing the value of each pixel in the screen, but the result of complex calculations that analyze which pixel changed and how. You cannot add them, no meaning in that.
Also, the result you want when you combine video streams together is almost never their blending superimposition one on each other (like a "transparency" ...
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