Native screen sharing

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What's the problem you're hoping this new feature will solve?

It's often important to show something while talking about it. The most straightforward way to accomplish this is with screen sharing.

Description of feature

This feature would add the ability for a person recording a message to share one of:

• their entire screen
• a section of their screen
• a specific window

as either:

• the sole video input for a clip
• the sole video input for a portion of the clip (record via the camera then switch to screen share when necessary)
• an additional video input for a clip (record via the camera and screen simultaneously)

Alternatives and workarounds

Screen sharing can be accomplished with software cameras that serve as a camera input. There are several options available with different capabilities. With a software camera, the user simply chooses the software camera as the input instead of the hardware camera. Then uses that camera to do the screen sharing.

A few examples are listed in the wiki page on creating a message.

Additional context

There aren't a lot of examples of web applications that have this functionality (most are desktop apps or browser plugins), but there do appear to be supported APIs that will enable it.