Partial screen streaming

[denniseffing]

Hi!

The new beta of v1.1.0 supports a full screen stream of a display to another display. Would it be possible to only stream a part of your screen as well?

With this feature we could work around a limitation of Microsoft Teams. The software only supports sharing an application window or the entire screen.
With partial screen streaming, you could stream a part of your actual screen to a dummy display and then share that dummy display using MS Teams. This is especially useful for ultra wide screen users. If they stream their entire desktop, other meeting participants without an ultra wide screen can not view it comfortably.

[waydabber]

Does Teams support sharing of a screen or only all screens combined? If it supports sharing of a single screen, why not create a dummy and share that? You can also look at the conents of the dummy by creating a PIP window of that dummy on your non shared-screen.

[waydabber]

Technically it is possible to stream only a part of the display to a custom sized dummy (it would need some tinkering to set this up though without some intuitive UI).

I added an enhancement for it. I am not yet sure about the roadmap but eventually we'll get there hopefully! :) #390

[denniseffing]

Thank you so much! Looking forward to it. 🙂

[waydabber]

btw, just looked into it, it is possible to this quite efficiently, will add to a future version.

[axrs]

I would love this feature soo much. I've just recently upgraded my setup to include a 5120x1440 monitor. Unfortunately, many screen sharing softwares struggle when sharing the screen. Microsoft Teams is the biggest problem as I can't share part of the screen.

My work around currently is to use VLC to stream part of my screen in a full screen window on the dummy display. While this works, it's less than ideal.

This feature however would be useful in so many situations.

[waydabber]

Yes, sorry this thing was somewhat neglected even though I already figured out how to do it. Will try to get back to it! #390 is not forgotten!