Screen Sharing

[MYSTRAVIL]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I want to fully replace Watch2Gether with this, but i am missing the Screen Capture feature which i use very often.

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like to be able to stream my screens with OpenTogetherTube.

This should be possible with the help of the screen capture API.

If this would fit in the App, i would contribute this feature myself. I would just need some design pointers as to where to place the button to start the screen capture.

Additional context

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[dyc3]

I also think this would be a nice feature to have. Great to hear that you'd like to contribute!

There's a few technical issues that need to be addressed before implementation though:

• Is there a way to avoid having the server stream the video to all the clients? We purposefully avoid doing this because of the bandwidth required. Is it possible to do P2P?
• Because we rely on the duration of the video so much, #246 is probably required.
• In a room's state, currentSource defines what is currently playing. Right now, it has the type Video, but it might be beneficial to represent screen captures in another way.
• Is audio capture possible?

Regarding UI design, we need to come to a consensus on what would be a nice experience.

• How should the user be able to start a screen share?
• Should a user be able to start a screen share while a video is playing?
• Should the video controls change when a screen capture is active? Maybe hide play/pause, seek and skip controls.