discord-screenaudio VS ArmCord

Streaming with audio is possible with discord-screenaudio. I have tried it but my stream lags so much it was unwatchable

I love both WebCord and discord-screenaudio, but for me and a lot of my friends, streaming using any chromium application is a laggy mess, especially when streaming games! In result, I built this extension which feeds audio nodes to WebRTC streams, currently only works with Firefox and Pipewire. I have packaged it for NixOS, but I need package maintainers for other distros too. Anyone willing to help by packaging the native part of the extension or just contributing to the project, is welcome!

use flatpak to install `de.shorsh.discord-screenaudio` if you want to stream your games/desktop with video and audio. Otherwise, official, no support. https://github.com/maltejur/discord-screenaudio

If you're on Linux, screen audio just doesnt work full stop.

There are some modded versions of the discord app that get around it[0], I don't know exactly how they work but it does actually allow you share audio.

0: https://github.com/maltejur/discord-screenaudio

discord-screenaudio enables audio sharing on Linux by wrapping the web version of Discord into an Electron app and doing some magic with the media streams. You can install it by searching in the Discover Store or with flatpak install de.shorsh.discord-screenaudio. This is the solution I'd recommend, it works really well.

Discord-Screenaudio

Does that mean i can use [This screenshare client](https://github.com/maltejur/discord-screenaudio) And do the normal way of installing betterdiscord which is using the launcher or do i have to change paths or what?

I am using Armcord. It works with Wayland, although I have not streamed myself on Discord (don't know if the sound problem persists).

Armcord (utilise Cumcord comme base)

ArmCord is also similar but has mods built-in

You should check out ArmCord, it's a FOSS standalone client for discord that uses the web version, but it has better integration, as well as client mods if you want that.

Use ArmCord instead

I want to improve my privacy and now discord is a big border in front of me. I cant switch to matrix because my friends wont but i found some alternative clients which are blocking trackers and just using Electron like the original discord client. Do you know other good alternatives and why is yours the best? I found "ArmCord" and "discord-sandboxed". My question is can i trust them? Which one is better? Do you know more?

Sadly no, but its more privacy respecting than the regular client for sure. FOSS options include: https://github.com/diamondburned/gtkcord4 https://github.com/uowuo/abaddon https://github.com/terminal-discord/weechat-discord (weechat plugin to use Discord within weechat) https://github.com/evelyneee/accord (seems to be for M1 macs) https://github.com/ArmCord/ArmCord (seems to support AMD64, not just Arm64) https://github.com/khlam/discord-sandboxed (sandboxing for standard discord client) There are others I'm sure. One easier option is to run the Discord code in a newer version of Electron. This still isn't open source, but it provides better security and performance. Arch users can use the AUR package discord_arch_electron, other users can just follow the commands in the PKGBUILD for said package and figure it out. Hope that helps. Keep in mind even if your client is open source, Discord's servers aren't, and while there will be some mitigation of data collected, it'll still be quite a bit.

For discord there are some apps like ArmCord though I haven't had much luck getting it to work on postmarketOS (musl seems to have issues running electron apps right now).

I recently found ArmCord but haven't gotten it working yet. I may spend some more time on this soon.