I want to stream videos with audio on my pc to my friends. I’m on linux, and video streaming is broken on discord (no audio of the source gets shared). Looping audio through mic (Soundux) results in poor audio quality, while discord-screenaudio just provides stuttery video. Any suggestions what to do?
I use a laptop with R4600H chip and 1650Ti.
Just checking the obvious- you’re streaming a window, right, and not a screen? Discord streams only have audio if you pick a single window to share, afaik.
Discord cant stream desktop audio at all on Linux aside from sharing a tab’s audio if you’re using Discord in a web browser. There are custom clients (like discord-screenaudio which OP mentioned) capable of doing this to some extent but they’re based on the web version of discord and lack features / can be buggy. Also these options don’t have hardware encoding so any fast moving content will become a choppy mess for the viewers.
The other alternative on Linux is to just route the app’s audio into your mic source. Others will hear it but it will come out as if its your mic so even those not watching the stream will have to hear the stream audio unless they mute you.
Might be a bit heavy, but assuming you have a good upload/GPU: Jellyfin.
It even has a group watch button. Never tried it though
Jellyfin’s sync play is not stable at all in my experience. very much not recommended for non technical people.
Surprised people didn’t mention Hyperbeam (former Tutturu) https://watch.hyperbeam.com/ You can’t upload your own stuff but you can just go to a streaming site and open any show you want
I suppose also opening the video file in the browser works for that?
Yep, it’s just a synchronised browser session anything you can open on the clearnet works
So opening a video file from your PC within the browser would not work?
No, but you can upload the file to some external storage and open it instead, as the previous commenter suggested
this works pretty great, thanks
No one has mentioned OBS? If I understood OP’s need correctly that seems like the obvious choice to me.
In theory yes. But with obs you need a streaming server, and what server are you gonna use for pirated content?
What platform should I use with OBS to stream?
Not op. But…
On Linux I set up OBS to capture my game window and from obs you are able to set the captured screen as a webcam stream.
On Linux I had to install some stuff to get a restream of the audio. It looped the game audio into a virtual mic.
So…
I Jitsi I just set my mic and video to the appropriate obs-made virtual cam and mic.
My upload maxes at 10mb/s
So I didn’t have the best luck with Jitsi. Definitely not full screen quality.
But OBS might come in handy if you find another way to stream.
OBS I believe is available for windows, Linux, and Mac.
I’m pretty sure you can plug obs input into things like teams or zoom. But I doubt the quality is worth a shit.
When I try to have movie nights with friends I’ll jus take the file, open it with chrome; and share my chrome screen on discord. For some reason that works for me.
I’m looking for the same solution but to stream a game screen.
I got obs to work with Jitsi but it’s low quality.
For streaming a game to a friend so we could connect via LAN I’ve used sunshine on the “server” and moonlight for the “client”
I was able to get video streaming with audio working on Discord using pipewire, but it was a massive pain in the ass and somewhat unreliable. I don’t have a lot of experience with Jitsi, but I trust others’ recommendation there
yeah that’s one of the reasons I’m looking for alternatives. It’s almost always too difficult to set up for discord, or straight poor quality or unreliable.
You can try Element.io
element has screen sharing/watch party options?
On desktop, yes
How? Is it via jitsi plugin?
Ahh I can’t really recall. Sry
Telegram is really popular too for streaming.
upload your video to vimeo
go to live.hexbear.net
click on the “Pure Kino” channel
add the vimeo link to the play queue
call your friends
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