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?

  • hexagonwin@lemmy.today
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    19 hours ago

    discord screen shares are very low latency and well integrated… is it possible to do something similar with obs? genuinely asking.

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      17 hours ago

      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.

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        18 hours ago

        have tried running am rtmp server, for some reason even on my local network and very low res/quality it was awfully slow sadly… :/