With the recent news about discord asking for face or ID scan, what other alternatives are there that we can recommend to our less tech-savvy friends?
With the recent news about discord asking for face or ID scan, what other alternatives are there that we can recommend to our less tech-savvy friends?
OBS allows you to stream video (hence its ubiquitous use by streamers on sites like Twitch), so you could simply configure OBS to stream for a smaller audience (your friends) instead using whatever web hook or additional program needed.
Are you suggesting I should be setting up “private” streams via Twitch or YouTube when I want to do a pair programming session?
That’s not a solution.
No, what I am saying because that functionality exists within OBS, it can be redirected/repurposed to directly stream the video through another application/protocol entirely (although if that’s already release ready is up for debate).
The proof of capability is there from the pre-existing Youtube/Twitch use cases, but there’s no reason that OBS couldn’t work as well for something like Matrix (but the groundwork may not be ready yet).
For a private screen you can use a web based solution like mirotalk or jitsi. Pretty much all web browsers support screenshare via an extension these days so its mostly just a matter of finding a server with low latency (or running your own)
I tend to stream directly to peertube so thats what i was thinking of for obs but its true that obs isnt ideal for smaller private sessions.
It was specifically the OBS aspect I couldn’t get my head around.
What sort of things are people trying to screen share on discord? Are you watching a movie together, playing a game, or ???
Normally programming sessions with coworkers.
discord screen shares are very low latency and well integrated… is it possible to do something similar with obs? genuinely asking.
I would imagine the limiting factors would be bandwidth and compute - I imagine discord offloads some of the processing on their servers to make sharing such a smooth experience, while services like Twitch intentionally introduce delay to make stream sniping more difficult.
So for OBS, the most difficult part of having a low latency stream to another person is having a strong, speedy connection, and a beefy enough gpu/cpu to handle the encoding quality necessary.
have tried running am rtmp server, for some reason even on my local network and very low res/quality it was awfully slow sadly… :/