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DisplayPipeContainers

Five observers, zero extra faces on the candidate's screen

A hiring loop with five observers used to mean five faces in the candidate's peripheral vision. Now the candidate gets a container: real editor, real terminal, on a display URL that opens in any browser. ffmpeg captures that display into a pipe with ?n=6: five panelists watching ?video, and a sixth receiver saving the file for the panelist who's traveling.

The candidate sees a normal computer and an empty room. The panel sees everything, live, without being in the session. The absent reviewer gets the identical stream: same bytes, lockstep: landing as a file.

Interview platforms sell this as a product tier. Here it's an environment you already know how to make, plus one capture.

Five observers, zero extra faces on the candidate's screen.