is multi client streaming feasible?

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Sometimes I want to stream a game while chatting with my buddies, but doing it on a streaming platform like twitch doesn't work well because the latency is so high. i could work around that by calling them up on the phone but then the stream's video and our audio will be completely out of sync.

sunshine/moonlight etc works beautifully since it delivers best possible latency on the stream, but it's only designed for one server and one client, the auth workflow is troublesome, and by default clients have control over the input.

So my question is this:

Does Sunshine's architecture make it possible to build a self-hosted streaming platform in which I could hypothetically connect up to let's say 3 clients to one server? I have gigabit fiber at home so the duplicated bandwidth of the extra send streams should be no issue.

Based on LizardByte/Sunshine#795 it sounds plausible at least.

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You can send the same stream to multiple clients; however Sunshine is designed for game streaming so each client will have the ability to control the session (as you indicated)

If you are controlling the game from the PC itself, you can disable input to prevent whoever you are streaming to from controlling the stream. There are three types of input that would need to be disabled, which can be done in the config page.

I would also suggest forcefully un-pairing clients once you are done streaming, otherwise they could re-connect at any time and spy on you.

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Right. Okay, so, once these config concerns are dealt with at the application level, I can see this as a high performance self hosted alternative to streaming services which honestly blows them all out of the water, though it won't be able to scale too well for people wanting to host who are on e.g. cable internet.

Next would be to explore how feasible it is to make a moonlight client that runs in the browser to get that last bit of client UX done but a simple native app download with next to zero config and SSO/auth streamlining would definitely do the trick, and that should be a straightforward path forking moonlight.