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Video and screen sharing server suggestions (lemmy.ml)
submitted 17 hours ago by Starkon@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hey, what do you guys use to share videos and screen share to your friends or colleagues? I'm looking to self host a video/call server that runs on webrtc (maybe?) with a fairly easy client experience. Something like mumble but for videos. Any suggestions?

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[–] Lucki@feddit.org 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

If you don't want the whole calling thing, this is just doing the share thing: https://linkgen.vdo.ninja/

Useful if you're already sitting in a voice chat.

[–] Starkon@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago

nicee, that can go well with my mumble server.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 10 hours ago

MiraCast

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I use sunshine/moonlight there is nothing as good as that.

Both the server and client run in portable mode

By default it will fullscreen and use relative mouse but use this command line to one-click start moonlight

Moonlight.exe --display-mode windowed --absolute-mouse --resolution 1920x1080 stream yourserver.lan desktop

Only little hiccup, the client need to pair with server before connecting, the client will give you a number and you type it in the sunshine management interface

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 2 points 8 hours ago

How does this work, if one person is sharing their screen, does the client get to see? Because it seems more like remote gaming kind of thing? Where the client controls the game/app running on the server?

[–] fredrik@lemmy.world 18 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Jitsi.

[–] mat@linux.community 2 points 9 hours ago

I often have performance issues with Jitsi ("video has been turned off to save bandwidth"). Might this be down to which instance I use? Perhaps it's time to self-host.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

We've been using it succesfully for work meetings during Covid. No complaints from either me or my IT-illiterate colleagues. 👍

[–] Starkon@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 hours ago

I find also that the client side need to be as easy and accessible to average people. Server address, port and you're connected just like that. A big reason why my friends and my family had no issues using my servers

[–] Starkon@lemmy.ml 6 points 17 hours ago

that's great ! I never heard of it before but it checks all marks and I've also found an arch wiki page explaining the installation. Thank you !