Question / Help Is there a way to mute private content after the fact (private audio, info)?

[Herolordman]

Say you are streaming, and you accidentally show your stream key, or your friend accidentally says some private information in the audio. Assuming you are on any sort of stream delay, can you just mute or cover the unwanted parts before they are sent out to the stream, or is your only choice to end the stream before the delay catches up? Ie can you "mute the past X seconds of audio from this device" or "hide the desktop from the past X seconds" etc?

 

[c3r1c3]

The broadcast devices that do this are absurdly expensive, but the only way I know of to address your point. That said, I can tell you how those broadcast devices work.

The way these things work is to have a button you can hit, and when you hit it it skips a certain amount of the buffered stream (and usually you hear a pop or click or see the video 'jump' like you had a bad buffering experience but only 1 second long, not several).

Then over time the device rebuilds the delay but inserting samples (audio-only) or duplicate frames (video+audio) into the feed until the delay/buffer is full again.