screen_cast

A native Linux peer-to-peer screencast application.

• Send your desktop or a window to another Linux machine.
• Receive a stream and render it in a window.
• Built with C++20, Meson, PipeWire, FFmpeg, RTP/UDP, and SDL.

This project is in early development. Only the skeleton exists so far.

Quick start

Requirements:

• C++20 compiler (GCC 12+, Clang 16+)
• Meson + Ninja
• (later phases) FFmpeg dev packages, PipeWire dev, SDL2/3 dev

Build and run tests:

meson setup build
meson compile -C build
meson test -C build --print-errorlogs

Architecture

See docs/ARCHITECTURE.md for module boundaries and design rules.

Roadmap

Development is split into phases in docs/PHASES.md.

Current phase: Phase 1 — project skeleton.

License

MIT — see LICENSE (to be added).