Desktop Mirror

Desktop Mirror is a lightweight application that enables you to share your screen along with audio between Windows, XBMC and Linux. Take note that you can choose to share your full screen, which can come in handy when you a streaming a game for instance, or a specific area, which is preferable when you are trying to display how to use a certain tool.

Getting started is a simple matter of choosing to share fullscreen or an area, case in which the application asks you to draw a rectangular to select it. The stream is high quality as your viewers can view footage with encoding video to H264 and audio in the form of MP3 via FFmpeg. It goes without saying that in order to share screen successfully, you need to make sure that the tool is installed on both machines.

A noteworthy feature is that you can stream between Windows and XBMC, an option that enables you to stream multimedia libraries, tunes and picture galleries. Then again, you should bear in mind that the application does not configure Kodi for you and hence, you need to make sure that all is set up beforehand on the computer that you are streaming.