feature request: screen sharing

[brandondrew]

I don't see any way to share my screen with p2p.chat, but it would be very useful (and would make it viable for my use case).

[chanjuping]

My workaround for this is the same one I had to use for Zoom because they don't properly support Wayland. OBS Studio with virtual camera. In fact, it's worth learning just because it makes online screen sharing so much more versatile.

[ghost]

This is actually my major usecase for p2p.chat. Signal and Element have a pretty low framerate and high latency for videos where as p2p.chat just streams at full throttle. It's great.

[brandondrew]

My workaround for this is the same one I had to use for Zoom because they don't properly support Wayland. OBS Studio with virtual camera. In fact, it's worth learning just because it makes online screen sharing so much more versatile.

That's actually a great idea, but it requires every user to install additional software so that they can share their screen, even though (AFAIK) browsers have this ability built-in. Also I'm guessing that it's not possible for users of tablets and phones. And if OBS Studio is a paid product then that's yet another obstacle.

[brandondrew]

@tom-james-watson is there any chance of adding screen-sharing capabilities to p2p.chat?

[tom-james-watson]

It is possible but I am not actively working on this project at the moment. Obviously as it's open source, anybody can work on this and submit a pull request.