how do I stream my desktop to a few friends?

Kotu · 31 Oct 2013 at 15:52

Does anyone know how I can go about streaming a copy of my desktop to friends (ie more than one) while keeping the framerate and quality as high as possible?

I have tried using remote desktop -> limited to one user
Remove assist -> limited to one user and very laggy
UltraVNC/tightVNC -> low quality and very laggy
vlc -> crashes too often and wont even start streaming 90% of the time
splashtop -> limited to one user
xsplit -> have to stream to a website or pay

are there any other suggestions on how to do this? It needs to be able to grab 3d stuff being displayed in a window and sounds, it doesn't need access to any cameras or microphones though.

Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.

Orcvader · 31 Oct 2013 at 16:05

OBS to a private Twitch stream (meaning they need a password to access the stream)? http://obsproject.com/

What exactly are you trying to stream?

Hyburnate · 31 Oct 2013 at 16:08

Teamviewer?

linktoinsanity · 31 Oct 2013 at 16:10

Hyburnate said:
Teamviewer?

I was also about to suggest Teamviewer.

You can set up a remote meeting and go from there.

Kotu · 31 Oct 2013 at 16:23

teamviewer gives similar performance to vnc/remote assist unfortunately

trying to stream blender and luxrender

Kotu · 31 Oct 2013 at 16:45

Orcvader said:
OBS to a private Twitch stream (meaning they need a password to access the stream)? http://obsproject.com/

What exactly are you trying to stream?

Smarty points go to Orcvader

this seems to work well enough for what I needed thanks.

KIA · 31 Oct 2013 at 18:11

Kotu said:
teamviewer gives similar performance to vnc/remote assist unfortunately

trying to stream blender and luxrender

How much upstream bandwidth do you have?

Hyburnate · 31 Oct 2013 at 18:13

Aye, I use TeamViewer every day for a long time, we both have high connections on the download and upload and TeamViewer is fine as long as we don't load up Flickr or something.

Ace Modder · 31 Oct 2013 at 19:34

oovoo.com