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How can I stream shows without discord?

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.

XpeeN ,

You can try Element.io

gc_ OP ,

element has screen sharing/watch party options?

XpeeN ,

On desktop, yes

gc_ OP ,

How? Is it via jitsi plugin?

XpeeN ,

Ahh I can’t really recall. Sry

Fylkir ,

Might be a bit heavy, but assuming you have a good upload/GPU: Jellyfin.

gentoo_biscuit ,

It even has a group watch button. Never tried it though

ollie ,

Jellyfin’s sync play is not stable at all in my experience. very much not recommended for non technical people.

DetachablePianist ,

No one has mentioned OBS? If I understood OP’s need correctly that seems like the obvious choice to me.

7Sea_Sailor ,

In theory yes. But with obs you need a streaming server, and what server are you gonna use for pirated content?

gc_ OP ,

What platform should I use with OBS to stream?

vd1n ,

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.

YEP ,

I’m pretty sure you can plug obs input into things like teams or zoom. But I doubt the quality is worth a shit.

SolOrion ,

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.

jaykstah , (edited )

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.

moreeni , (edited )

Surprised people didn’t mention Hyperbeam (former Tutturu) watch.hyperbeam.comYou can’t upload your own stuff but you can just go to a streaming site and open any show you want

Spacellary ,
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I suppose also opening the video file in the browser works for that?

moreeni ,

Yep, it’s just a synchronised browser session anything you can open on the clearnet works

vd1n ,

So opening a video file from your PC within the browser would not work?

moreeni ,

No, but you can upload the file to some external storage and open it instead, as the previous commenter suggested

gc_ OP ,

this works pretty great, thanks

guts ,

Telegram is really popular too for streaming.

FullOfBallooons ,
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I haven’t tried it on Linux, but a while back I was streaming stuff for my friends on Kosmi.It worked pretty well.

vd1n ,

Could I stream my personal home files? Or does it have to be something on the www?

Yeah… I used www in a question like it’s 1993.

FullOfBallooons ,
@FullOfBallooons@leminal.space avatar

You can either share your screen/window or upload a file. There’s probably a filesize limit, but I’m not sure what it is. I was using it to upload episodes of GameCenter CX to stream and I didn’t have any issues, but those episodes aren’t super huge. YMMV if you’re trying to upload a bluray rip or something.

ssboomman ,

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.

SuperNovaCouchGuy2 ,

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

stu ,
@stu@lemmy.pit.ninja avatar

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

gc_ OP ,

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.

vd1n ,

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.

_hovi_ ,

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”

Lupus108 ,

Vlc Player was invented for this…

gc_ OP ,

How do I do it? Could you share some tips/guide?

Lupus108 ,

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

gc_ OP ,

cool, I’ll look into it.

7Sea_Sailor ,

I don’t see how this would work with additional network setup if you want to stream to devices outside your LAN. You’d need to at least set up port forwarding on your router to allow your friends to access your stream, and then you’d still be limited by the upload rate of your local network, which might not be fast enough depending on the movie quality. A centralized version of this, where the movie resides on some server that you all “download” the movie from would be more reliable, but I don’t know of any from the top of my head that would do the trick.

EDIT: now that i think of it, w2g.tv allows streaming any movie file from any server via direct link to file. So if you figure out any sort of hoster where you can upload the movie, or if you find a streaming platform that hosts a direct .mp4 file already, you can copy & paste that into a w2g lobby, invite your friends, and start watching.

wolfshadowheart ,
@wolfshadowheart@kbin.social avatar

VLC was invented to screen share video from a host computer to a group call? TIL

Lupus108 ,

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.

wolfshadowheart ,
@wolfshadowheart@kbin.social avatar

Ahh makes sense I see. It may serve the same purpose just with a little more overhead

Lupus108 ,

That’s an interesting idea and since vlc is even able to play files that are still downloading I guess it could also stream a screen grab file that is just temporary?

gc_ OP ,

You understood right, I need it for watch party. Can I use it for streaming over the internet or only my local wifi?

aperson ,

Do you know how to forward ports?

gc_ OP ,

I can learn. What then?

aperson ,

Then anything that works on your lan can be accessed from the internet.

aperson ,

Vlc should be able to screen share as well.

jet ,

Jitsi

gc_ OP ,

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

jet ,

Curious. I’m able to share audio and video with jit si.

gc_ OP ,

What was your video source?

jet ,

Linux vlc jitsi on Firefox

vd1n ,

So it’s a Firefox extension of VLC that plays video?

gc_ OP ,

yeah i need to know that as well

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