HLS streaming / ease of use suggestions?

Mango

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When you stream with HLS, you use the Custom Output (ffmpeg) recording feature. Counterintuitively, you click Start Recording to start your stream, and leave the Start Streaming button alone. I need to make the UI agree with the functionality. Here are some bad ideas for solving that:

1) Hack the locale.
Basic.Main.StartStreaming="Don't click this"
Basic.Main.StartRecording="Start Streaming"

2) Hack the theme.
QPushButton#streamButton { /* I'm doing this wrong; the button still appears, just with no text. */
height:0;
width:0;
line-height:0;
visible: false;
disabled: true;
visibility: hidden;
display: none;
}

3) Totally reinvent the wheel and use a browser dock combined with websockets or a browser source & broadcast channel to create my own Controls dock. This would be my first choice if a browser dock could do window.obsstudio.startRecording() (but it can't).

4) Create a custom service (but I don't know how).

If anyone has any ideas that, unlike mine, are actually good, I would be delighted to hear about it.
 
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