[schrijver]

Not exactly the same scenario, but I just wanted to share a neat little hack I discovered yesterday… I work with a team who now meet in Google Hangouts but it doesn’t work over the company’s internal network yet… so I couldn’t share my screen to do a demo of an internal app. Instead, I got another computer which was on the internal network, plugged the HDMI output into an Elgato Camlink, which made it show up as a Webcam. Beyond needing two computers, it worked much easier than I thought—more reliably actuallly than any camera I’d plugged into the Camlink until now.

[BrentOzar]

> plugged the HDMI output into an Elgato Camlink, which made it show up as a Webcam

I love this solution too, but just making a note for folks who use GoToWebinar: the max webcam output resolution is still just a miserable 720p, so this approach doesn't work as well for sharing apps & desktops there.

You can have a higher-resolution webcam (like this trick), but GoToWebinar still only sends your webcam stream out at 720p, so it looks terrible on the other end.

[Tepix]

You can get a noname HDMI in USB 3.0 Capture box from AliExpress for around $50 that will also work.

[schrijver]

Sure, I imagine any kind of HDMI capture solution would work! I was just amused that this gadget I had which is marketed for capturing camera output—for which it frankly doesn’t do a stellar job—worked so well for this specific purpose