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Latest Comments by pete910
Open source voice-chat levels up with Mumble 1.4 out now
17 Jan 2022 at 9:21 pm UTC

Trouble is whilst I agree Mumble is great, Discord wins with gamers with the fact you can pretty much do what a clan needs/wants, Chats/voip/streamimg ect. (Streaming bit needs work though)

It's also easier to do your own server.

Personally used to like team speak.

Discord Overlay for Linux 'Discover Overlay' gets a new release
17 Jan 2022 at 8:46 pm UTC

Quoting: TheRiddick
Quoting: pete910Ah, the discord streaming thingy, Must admit when I've tried it it's always been a bit meh . Not a Nitro member though so low res only.
I don't have nitro either but sometimes use the standard thing to show someone something.
The only issue I have is that it's such a crap res/bit rate, don't really recall if the audio worked for me or not in the past. Having said that, I've not used more than a handful of times. Even my windows mates don't do it that often due to issues.

I just stick to OBS via twitch or YT, Shame as the discord streaming can be handy on occasion.

Quoting: midget_3111it doesn't use NVENC when capturing, so if you're using an Nvidia GPU and try to screenshare it causes everything to stutter.
Get an AMD card for that OSS goodness :tongue:

Discord Overlay for Linux 'Discover Overlay' gets a new release
16 Jan 2022 at 9:46 am UTC

Quoting: TheRiddick
Quoting: pete910
Quoting: TheRiddickNow if someone could make a plugin for discord to fix the streaming and no audio issue.
Have to ask, What issues are you having? Discord's audio has never been a problem with OBS ect for me personally. Or do you mean within windows ?
Nitro does not capture game audio. OBS is a separate app outside of discord which does not hook up into discord for its screen sharing function (which doesn't capture audio under Linux).
Ah, the discord streaming thingy, Must admit when I've tried it it's always been a bit meh . Not a Nitro member though so low res only.

Discord Overlay for Linux 'Discover Overlay' gets a new release
15 Jan 2022 at 5:01 pm UTC

Quoting: ysblokje
Quoting: midget_3111
Quoting: wytrabbitSo this doesn't interfere with or modify the Discord client in any way? I'm concerned with my account being banned.
Nope! I've been using it and it's predecessor for about 2 years now!
It might not have banned me, but when my kid started using it we got issues with discord not accepting our IP for a few hours every few hours. (3 accounts from the same ip address). When my kid stopped using it issues stopped as well.
They probably knew who their dad was ! :grin:

Discord Overlay for Linux 'Discover Overlay' gets a new release
15 Jan 2022 at 3:57 pm UTC

Quoting: TheRiddickNow if someone could make a plugin for discord to fix the streaming and no audio issue.
Have to ask, What issues are you having? Discord's audio has never been a problem with OBS ect for me personally. Or do you mean within windows ?

Discord Overlay for Linux 'Discover Overlay' gets a new release
14 Jan 2022 at 11:50 pm UTC

Quoting: midget_3111
Quoting: pete910
Quoting: midget_3111
Quoting: pete910
Quoting: midget_3111
Quoting: pete910Shot in the dark , will this work with OBS, The OBS browser pluggin is horrendous for failing due to CEF
Should do. Give it a try and let us know :D
Well just gave it a quick go, The answers no :sad:

It's probably due to that it's not an widow as such like what the config page is.

Edit:

Is there a way to pick a specific channel/room within a server ?
Yep! Configuration can be reached either via System tray or by running discover-overlay --configure :)
Must have missed that, I can only select servers, not channels in a specific one.

Quoting: midget_3111We use their official streamkit API, so no risk of violations :)
I thought it would have done, Just looked in the branch and states this .
Ahh right. It follows whichever channel you're currently in I believe. selecting a specific channel only works for text overlays currently.
Actually thats not a bad idea thinking about if it follows the user to the relevant channel in use.

Discord Overlay for Linux 'Discover Overlay' gets a new release
14 Jan 2022 at 11:42 pm UTC

Quoting: midget_3111Arch AUR
That's already updated as it's what I used .

Discord Overlay for Linux 'Discover Overlay' gets a new release
14 Jan 2022 at 9:19 pm UTC

Quoting: midget_3111
Quoting: pete910
Quoting: midget_3111
Quoting: pete910Shot in the dark , will this work with OBS, The OBS browser pluggin is horrendous for failing due to CEF
Should do. Give it a try and let us know :D
Well just gave it a quick go, The answers no :sad:

It's probably due to that it's not an widow as such like what the config page is.

Edit:

Is there a way to pick a specific channel/room within a server ?
Yep! Configuration can be reached either via System tray or by running discover-overlay --configure :)
Must have missed that, I can only select servers, not channels in a specific one.

Quoting: midget_3111We use their official streamkit API, so no risk of violations :)
I thought it would have done, Just looked in the branch and states this .

Discord Overlay for Linux 'Discover Overlay' gets a new release
14 Jan 2022 at 5:47 pm UTC

Quoting: midget_3111
Quoting: pete910Shot in the dark , will this work with OBS, The OBS browser pluggin is horrendous for failing due to CEF
Should do. Give it a try and let us know :D
Well just gave it a quick go, The answers no :sad:

It's probably due to that it's not an widow as such like what the config page is.

Edit:

Is there a way to pick a specific channel/room within a server ?

Discord Overlay for Linux 'Discover Overlay' gets a new release
14 Jan 2022 at 5:33 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: wytrabbit
Quoting: pete910
Quoting: wytrabbitSo this doesn't interfere with or modify the Discord client in any way? I'm concerned with my account being banned.
What on earth makes you think that they would ban you or even on what grounds ?
It's mentioned at least twice in their ToS.

You agree not to (and not to attempt to) (i) use the Service for any use or purpose other than as expressly permitted by these Terms;(ii) copy, adapt, modify, prepare derivative works based upon, distribute, license, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, stream, broadcast, attempt to discover any source code, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise exploit the Service or any portion of the Service, except as expressly permitted in these Terms
:dizzy:

I must be missing something I guess, Does it not use their API?
Is that not what an API is for, Integrating third party programs/Access ?