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While we're here and probably need a quick alternative, does anyone know of a screen sharing service that allows you to share a portion of the screen and not ju

by swozey 4y ago

While we're here and probably need a quick alternative, does anyone know of a screen sharing service that allows you to share a portion of the screen and not just a tab/app? I'm on an ultrawide monitor and it's a real pain screensharing. I've tried tuple, tandem, google meets.. none of those allow it.

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gog 4y ago
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LeonenTheDK 4y ago
What I've done before is use OBS to capture a potion of a screen, then start its virtual camera and use that as the camera input for whatever service I'm using. You can set up different scenes too to switch between camera, region of screen, and whatever else you may want. I'm a big fan of this set up too because then it doesn't matter what service you use. Whether you're in a Teams meeting with your team, Zoom with a client, Discord with friends, same set up across the board.
- ruined 4y ago
  iirc zoom has some features like annotation that only work over a "screenshare" as it understands them, and not on other surfaces. it's possible to go one step further with OBS, take your capture camera and open a "windowed projector" and just share that window with zoom. then you have a window with a view manipulable from within OBS but zoom understands it as a screen capture too.
  - LeonenTheDK 4y ago
    Oh interesting, had no idea Zoom was so robust. The projector bit is good to know, thanks for sharing!
endtime 4y ago
Pretty sure Google Meet lets you share your whole screen if you want. But probably not just a slice of it.
- swozey 4y ago
  I can't share the whole screen, with an ultrawide if the participants don't also have UWs the wind up seeing basically a skinny sliver of my screen, its just too wide (49"). What I used to do was use PBP mode and split it into 2 screens but I don't really want to have to do that.

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While we're here and probably need a quick alternative, does anyone know of a screen sharing service that allows you to share a portion of the screen and not ju

by swozey 4y ago

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gog 4y ago
Slack
LeonenTheDK 4y ago
What I've done before is use OBS to capture a potion of a screen, then start its virtual camera and use that as the camera input for whatever service I'm using. You can set up different scenes too to switch between camera, region of screen, and whatever else you may want. I'm a big fan of this set up too because then it doesn't matter what service you use. Whether you're in a Teams meeting with your team, Zoom with a client, Discord with friends, same set up across the board.
- ruined 4y ago
  iirc zoom has some features like annotation that only work over a "screenshare" as it understands them, and not on other surfaces. it's possible to go one step further with OBS, take your capture camera and open a "windowed projector" and just share that window with zoom. then you have a window with a view manipulable from within OBS but zoom understands it as a screen capture too.
  - LeonenTheDK 4y ago
    Oh interesting, had no idea Zoom was so robust. The projector bit is good to know, thanks for sharing!
endtime 4y ago
Pretty sure Google Meet lets you share your whole screen if you want. But probably not just a slice of it.
- swozey 4y ago
  I can't share the whole screen, with an ultrawide if the participants don't also have UWs the wind up seeing basically a skinny sliver of my screen, its just too wide (49"). What I used to do was use PBP mode and split it into 2 screens but I don't really want to have to do that.