Support Browser Screen Sharing as Audio Input (System Audio

[Oguzini]

I would like to request support for using browser screen sharing (including system audio) as an input audio source for the app.

[rishikanthc]

There's an issue tracking this. So there are a few complications for this. For a webapp to do this, it has to be done using the screencapture api.. This will conflict with other apps.. for eg. If you are screen sharing on zoom, then scriberr will not be able to access audio at the same time..
I'm currently building a desktop companion app that will have this feature.. It's still in very early stages.. Currently the desktop app is mac only and can capture system audio.. but it's not ready for release and I don't have an eta for it.. You can follow the development at https://github.com/rishikanthc/scriberr-desktop
Hope that helps..

[Oguzini]

Did you test this already? It sounds like you tried to implement it and ran into issues with parallel Zoom screen sharing.

Was this a Zoom meeting running in the same browser where Scriberr was open, or were you using the native Zoom app?

As a company user, it’s often difficult to install native apps on a device, so a web-based solution would be ideal.

Also, most people in a meeting don’t share their screen, so this approach would work very well for them.

[rishikanthc]

Fair point. Majority would use the native zoom app.
I haven't tested this. I was reading up how to do this and this was my takeaway. But looks like I might be wrong. I just read up https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Capture_API and there's no mention of anything like this.. So this might actually be possible..
I'll look into this.. I myself would benefit from this.

[rishikanthc]

I'll have to test this out myself by implementing it. Eitherways to get started, I think I'm fine with simply not supporting simultaneous sharing IF it doesn't work. I can live with that as like you pointed out the majority would be using the native app.

[rishikanthc]

@Oguzini Well. I got it working. However there's a catch. Only Chromium based browsers are supported. So it works on Chrome, Brave and Edge. This is because Safari and Firefox don't support audio capture as part of the Screen Capture API. Refer to the compatibility details at the bottom of https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Capture_API

It works perfectly fine on Chromium based browsers though. You can choose a window / entire system audio / a particular tab.