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How is Matrix's screen-sharing quality? (self.matrix)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Flagstaff to c/matrix

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A frequent activity that my closest friend group likes to do is spectate on single-player games played by one person via screen-sharing (and we're mostly introverted so no Twitch for us lol; plus, that's Amazon's playground anyway). This is where Discord unfortunately reigns supreme: its screen-sharing is somehow absolutely fantastic and near-flawless.

I recently learned that Matrix has screen-sharing through this Discord age-verification article, which may be enough to finally make the push for my friends to consider Matrix; how is it in comparison? Does anyone here very frequently use it?

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[–] ryandenotter 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have recently set up my own Matrix server. I have played around with the screen sharing, and it appears to work quite well. Very high quality.

This may be because my server is very small and few people were using it. I haven't played around with it on larger servers.

[–] Flagstaff 1 points 1 week ago

I tried it and it's awesome! But there are two features that Discord has over Element when it comes to these voice calls; in Discord, you can choose to not watch the stream (which can help save data for those with limited data at the time); Matrix, or at least Element(? Help me out here) forces all voice call participants to stream the screen-share.

Additionally, Discord outlines avatars in green when they're saying something, which is a handy mic test feature, whereas Element(/Matrix?) gives no visual feedback.