The long way around to screen sharing. Contents 1. The Problem 2. Remote Play 3. How PS5 Streaming Works 4. Finding the Right Hostname 5. DNS Trick 6. Receiving the Stream 7. Watching It Sony has progressively locked down what you can do with the PS5’s hardware. Streaming is a good example: the console gives you a nice, convenient “Broadcast” button, but the moment you want to do anything outside the handful of services Sony supports, it gets annoying very fast. Third-party Bluetooth devices are the same story! Sony locks the wireless stack to their own peripherals, so your headphones or controllers from other brands simply won’t pair :/ The Problem I often stream games with friends on Discord who watch me play, but the PS5 doesn’t support screen sharing to Discord. The obvious fix is a capture card — plug the HDMI output into a capture card , feed it into OBS on your Mac, stream from there. But decent ones aren’t cheap, and I didn’t want to spend upwards of $100 just for this.…