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.
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
Yep, it’s just a synchronised browser session anything you can open on the clearnet works
Jitsi
I’m not talking about youtube videos. I mean videos either on my pc or platforms in megathread like 123movies. I tried both with Jitsi. Video is shared but audio is not for some reason
Edit : By sharing I mean screen sharing. 123movies didn’t work with the link option
Might be a bit heavy, but assuming you have a good upload/GPU: Jellyfin.
Vlc Player was invented for this…
VLC was invented to screen share video from a host computer to a group call? TIL
No, it was invented to stream video files, I don’t think it’s able screen share, but you can use it easily for watch parties. Thats how I understood OPs question.
Ahh makes sense I see. It may serve the same purpose just with a little more overhead
You understood right, I need it for watch party. Can I use it for streaming over the internet or only my local wifi?
Oh I haven’t used that function in years but there’s a lot of helpful guides on it out there like this one. It’s a little “complicated” for modern days but it works pretty reliable.
Funny enough streaming videos is vlcs “Main” function - VideoLanClient
