San Diego Comic-Con@Home video panel thwarted by YouTube's copyright algorithms

Odd as it is to use, I’d actually use Steam’s ability to stream anything real-time (with a 15-20 sec delay) smoothly; there’s no content checks at all, just your system’s feed, and Steam membership is only required for making comments in the channel’s chat.

Notably, you can set any specific app, Steam or non-Steam, as the trigger to keep the channel open, if you’d like to close the Steam interface; I use Wordpad. So far, I’ve had no problems sending all desktop content, including DRM’d streams such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Tidal Music. While Steam-native apps stream with little noticeable delay, there’s a 15-20 sec delay when general broadcast is used, but it’s smooth 1080p with full audio =).

Funny enough, I spent a large portion of last night figuring out how to do this. Steam doesn’t really make it easy to set up but it does work well, and it’s both free and easy for people to watch.

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