Screen-Share Detection → Auto-Pause Live Sharing

[ntatschner]

Problem

Users who livestream or screen-share Star Citizen sessions risk leaking their StarStats live-sharing surfaces — open transactions, current location, fleet inventory — to the stream audience without realizing the tray window is visible. Manual mute-before-stream is fragile.

Approach

Detect active screen capture / screen share via known capture-process presence: OBS / Discord / Zoom / Teams / Google Meet / Xbox Game Bar / NVIDIA ShadowPlay etc. On detection, surface a non-blocking pause prompt with duration options:

• this session
• 1 hour
• 24 hours
• until I unpause

Live sharing resumes automatically when the capture stops and the prompt is dismissed.

Acceptance criteria

• Detection signals fire from process presence only — no screen-content inspection
• Pause prompt is non-blocking (doesn't steal focus from the user's stream)
• Pause durations work as described (this session / 1h / 24h / indefinite)
• Auto-resume when capture process exits AND user dismisses the prompt
• Pause state visible in tray with a chip explaining why ("paused while screen-shared")
• Audit-log entry on each pause/resume transition

Risks / Open questions

• False positives: Discord runs constantly — needs to distinguish "screen-sharing in Discord" from "Discord is open"
• False negatives: capture tools we don't enumerate (game-launcher overlays, niche software) won't trigger
• Platform parity: Windows vs macOS vs Linux detection mechanisms differ substantially
• User confusion if pause happens silently — the chip must explain which capture process triggered it

Original draft notes

Detect active screen capture / screen share by OBS / Discord / Zoom / Teams / Google Meet / Xbox Game Bar / NVIDIA ShadowPlay etc. On detection, surface a non-blocking pause prompt with duration options (this session / 1h / 24h / until I unpause). Live sharing resumes automatically when the capture stops and the prompt is dismissed.

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Tracking

• Roadmap slug: screen-share-detection-auto-pause-live-sharing
• Public roadmap: https://starstats.app/roadmap/screen-share-detection-auto-pause-live-sharing
• Project board: https://github.com/orgs/TheCodeSaiyan/projects/1
• eta_band: tbd (set on the Project board when scoping firms up)
• Channel targeting: likely live + beta + alpha — privacy hardening; valuable on every channel as soon as detection is reliable. Add channel/<name> labels when targeting firms up.