Video Calls & Screenshare Simultaneously
Allow both users to be have the freedom to have their camera on while screensharing simultaneously.
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This would be awesome. I've been playing with a good friend of mine, who moved from the States to Australia, and we were getting back into Elite: Dangerous. We used to stream our games to youtube and have each other's stream pulled up on our second monitors so we could experience what the other was seeing and doing. This of course had a good 10-12 seconds delay streaming this way. Then Discord Screenshare came out, THANKS YOU GUYS ROCK FOR THIS BTW, and we tried it out...WOW. Neither of us have Discord Nitro but the stream quality wasn't just excellent, but the lag wasn't even a second. Elite: Dangerous has current time in the corner of the screen and it was less than a second behind. So we get to see each others screen in pretty much real-time.
Getting to my point..sorry...just a week ago we thought about how we could get Discord to stream the gameplay and our webcams like one does for YouTube/Twitch/etc. I figured out to just use OBS.Live since it seems to use the least amount of resources and setup just two sources, the game capture, and webcam, making sure the webcam is above the game capture for it to show up over the game. Then Right-Click on the Main window and click on Windowed Preview and maximize the screen. The Window CANNOT be minimized or the next part won't work. Go to Discord and Click on Screenshare\Application and choose the Windows Preview. If the Windowed preview is minimized before this part, it simply won't show up under Application to share. BUT, once it's shared, you can minimize both the preview and obs.live and it will continue sharing the screen. Not a bad work around, but additional software involved and many more steps.
Would be awesome for Discord to add:
-Webcam/Screenshare Simultaneously. Primary Focus(Main Screen)/Secondary Focus(small screen)
-Ability to easily switch between primary and secondary screens with a click and keyboard shortcut for when you want your screen/gameplay to be the main focus with your webcam on the small secondary screen and switch to webcam being the primary with the screen/gameplay as the secondary.
All the pieces are pretty much there, we can already use the webcam, and we already have screenshare. Let's do this.
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