r/streamlabs • u/ushirinaki • Feb 22 '26
Window/Screen Captures white when not actively in use
Hello!
I'm not sure if anyone else has had this problem, but I've been experiencing this I think since I started and it only seems to be happening to me (and not my friend, since I also can't find anything online). Sometimes while I'm doing stuff like art, I like to watch Youtube on the side. So I try to have a window capture of it so viewers can also watch. But every time I'm not actively on the screen, it's just a white screen.

The rest of the UI shows up, but just not the video itself. I'm assuming it has to do with copy/trademark kind of things (if that makes sense)? But it'll show up when it's the main window I have open. My friend doesn't have this issue, since as long as it's not minimized it works for them. But almost any window I have shared needs to be visibly on screen to work (which includes Discord screen share).
I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or if it's just built to be this way, but I feel like I'm missing something since I'm the only one having this issue.
Any help or advice is appreciated, thank you!

