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Stream desktop capture to a web browser

Stream Bridge takes a full desktop display and turns it into a clean, low-latency browser stream - useful for presentations, graphics, playback or confidence monitoring. Viewers just open a link and watch, without the meeting-app interface or extra software a normal screen share involves.

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Signal Flow

4 Simple Steps

  1. Choose a display

    Capture any screen: slides, graphics, playback or software interfaces.

  2. Pair the app

    Install Stream Bridge, add a device on the dashboard and enter its connection key.

  3. Share a link

    Send a viewer link, password optional. No port forwarding or network admin needed.

  4. They watch live

    Open it in Chrome, Firefox, Edge or Safari. Direct where possible, via our cloud when not.

How it works

Setting this up follows the same steps as any other source. Install the desktop app, create a device on the dashboard, and enter the connection key. Once connected, enable Desktop Capture in Device Settings and any display connected to that machine becomes available to set up as a stream.

A stream supports as many viewers as your connection can handle, and each viewer link can be configured separately - player branding, password protection, and more.

Share the link and the viewer connects straight in, no software required at their end. If a direct connection can't be made, we bridge it through our cloud network automatically, so it still works on tighter corporate or venue networks.

The connection is monitored the whole time it's live, adjusting buffering and delay automatically to keep playback smooth. Latency can be as low as 50ms, though we advertise around 500ms to allow for realistic buffering.

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To get started straight away, join our beta, download the application, and get streaming. We also have a host of documentation available that goes through all of the features of Stream Bridge, troubleshooting issues, and our support team are ready to help if needed.

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Under the hood

Technical Breakdown

Technical detail on the source, audio path, encoding load, picture quality, internet route, and viewer controls.

Supported Sources

Any display connected to the paired Windows device.

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Stream Bridge captures a full monitor output from the paired Windows device, and you can choose which one - it works across every display connected to that machine, not just the primary. Typical uses are presentation laptops, graphics workstations, playback machines and software demos.

Discovery is controlled per device, so you can turn off input families you don't use, or restrict results to local sources if the network is busy.

Audio

Desktop Capture is video only.

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Desktop Capture doesn't capture system or application audio - it's a video source only.

Plan for this when building the stream, particularly for anything where sound matters to the viewer.

Performance

NVENC where available, CPU as the fallback.

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NVENC on a supported NVIDIA GPU is the recommended route - lower latency, less CPU used. CPU encoding is the fallback where there's no compatible GPU, or it's busy with something else.

Live telemetry shows you how much headroom the encoder has. If load's getting close to the top, or frames start dropping, cut back on concurrent work or move the encode to better hardware.

Viewer Quality & Latency

Live bitrate control, typically under 500ms.

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Desktop Capture is off by default and needs enabling per device. Every viewer is a separate connection, and the configured bitrate applies to each one - two viewers at 5Mbps needs roughly 10Mbps upload.

A static presentation and a fast-moving camera feed put very different demands on the encoder, so tune bitrate live while watching how the device and viewers are behaving.

Networking

Direct connection first, cloud relay when that's blocked.

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There's no manual IP exchange or router forwarding required. Each session negotiates its own route automatically.

Corporate and venue networks sometimes block a direct connection. When that happens, Stream Bridge falls back to relay - you can also drop the bitrate if the longer route has less headroom.

Security & Customisation

Custom links, passwords and branding per audience.

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Custom URLs, passwords, colours, logos and controls let you match the viewer experience to its audience. Up to 25 viewer links can be created per stream.

Security isn't just about the connection itself - keep your dashboard account protected, keep pairing keys private, password anything sensitive, and don't reuse a link beyond the event it was made for.

Stream desktop capture to a web browser

Frequently Asked Questions

What production teams need to know before configuring this source, route, and destination.

Setup & sources

A full monitor output from the paired Windows device - you can pick any display connected to that machine, not just the primary one. Turn on Desktop Capture in Device Settings, make sure the display is connected at a detectable refresh rate, then create a stream and pick a viewer or Bridge Sharing destination.

They open the link in Chrome, Firefox, Edge or Safari - Chrome's the most reliable for WebRTC - and don't need to install anything.

Latency's usually in the hundreds of milliseconds rather than seconds, but no internet path is fixed - use wired connections and leave headroom where timing matters.

Delivery & performance

Set something both the sender and the weakest receiver can sustain. Many 1080p30 feeds start around 3-5Mbps, with higher-motion or 60fps material often needing more.

No - Desktop Capture is a video-only source and doesn't pick up system or application sound.

No, though a direct route is preferred. Relay access kicks in automatically when the endpoints can't reach each other, and the app works to recover any interrupted connection.

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