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:cat2: webrtc screensharing electron app for mac os (Alpha)

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:cat2: webrtc screensharing electron app for mac os (Alpha)

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mirotalk·Dec 2, 2021

Wow! So there is the possibility of having remote screen control using the WebRTC for the stream and then other trick for the mouse coordinates and keyboard! I hope to be able to integrate it also in https://github.com/miroslavpejic85/mirotalk that would be great! Thank you so much for sharing! Maybe I can try to do it looking from: https://github.com/maxogden/screencat Keep it up!

In Show HN: Neko – Self hosted virtual browser that runs in Docker and uses WebRTC

jcun4128·Dec 1, 2021

What I'm saying is from the gif (repo README) you see this localhost web thing. I'm aware you can screenshare say from Chrome and show a tab or your whole desktop. In this way you have mouse control/people would just watch your screen. I'm not clear on how they're clicking into that shared browser (to use YouTube). Normally for this kind of thing you need an OS-level component. There's something on the GO side but trying to find the bridge on Vue side https://github.com/m1k1o/neko/blob/master/server/internal/we... idk maybe somewhere in here https://github.com/m1k1o/neko/blob/master/client/src/compone... I had to deal with this problem too with regard to remote control somehow without installing an OS-level app but that didn't happen went a different route. Idk this is a cool project, looks like it is possible to do remote control with we

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brtc. And webrtc as said above can replace websocket for data transfer. https://github.com/maxogden/screencat ehh then again: > On the host side the app must synthesize mouse and keyboard events on the host OS. This is the tricky part, and the only part where a custom native node addon (C++) is required. Yet another cool project robotjs hmm

In Show HN: Neko – Self hosted virtual browser that runs in Docker and uses WebRTC

niutech·Oct 4, 2017

ScreenCat (https://github.com/maxogden/screencat) is using WebRTC, but it is currently Mac-only.

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