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# discord-screenaudio
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A custom discord client that supports streaming with audio on Linux, made
possible by the
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[great work](https://github.com/edisionnano/Screenshare-with-audio-on-Discord-with-Linux)
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of [@edisionnano](https://github.com/edisionnano) and the
[Rohrkabel library](https://github.com/Soundux/rohrkabel) by
[@Curve](https://github.com/Curve).
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Unlike a lot of other solutions, the audio here is directly fed into the
screenshare and not passed to the user microphone
([see explanation](#how-it-works)).
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![Screenshot_20220718_194357](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/48161361/179571245-11ea05f3-fb5e-4aef-9132-2736e122ef04.png)
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The purpose of this project is **not** to provide an alternative to the original
Discord client. Rather, it should be used in addition to the original client in
case you want to stream something, maybe used with a second account. For
anything else, this client has way too many things that work less well than in
the original client.
Technically this could be against
[Discord's TOS](https://discord.com/terms#software-in-discord%E2%80%99s-services),
so be warned. Discord probably won't ban you for using this, but if they do I
told you and it's not my fault.
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## Known Issues
- Only works with **PipeWire**
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- Can only share primary screen on X11 (no other screens or specific
applications) (see
[#1](https://github.com/maltejur/discord-screenaudio/issues/1))
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## Installation
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You have multiple options:
- Install the Flatpak (recommended):
`flatpak install de.shorsh.discord-screenaudio`
- If you are on Arch, you can build and install
[`discord-screenaudio`](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/discord-screenaudio)
from the AUR
- If you are on openSUSE, you can use the
[Open Build Service package](https://software.opensuse.org//download.html?project=games%3Atools&package=discord-screenaudio)
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by [@VortexAcherontic](https://github.com/VortexAcherontic)
- You can [build it yourself](#building-from-source)
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## Building from Source
### Requirements
- Basic building tools
- CMake
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- Qt5, QtWebEngine and Kf5Notifications
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- **PipeWire** (it currently doesn't work with PulseAudio)
- Git
On Debian:
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`apt install -y build-essential cmake qtbase5-dev qtwebengine5-dev libkf5notifications-dev pkg-config libpipewire-0.3-dev git`
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### Building
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First, clone the repository:
```bash
git clone https://github.com/maltejur/discord-screenaudio.git
cd discord-screenaudio
```
Then, to build the program, run this in the source directory:
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```bash
cmake -B build
cmake --build build --config Release
```
And then to optionally install it, run:
```bash
sudo cmake --install build
```
## How it works
This whole project is based on
[this](https://github.com/edisionnano/Screenshare-with-audio-on-Discord-with-Linux)
repository, which very nicely explains how to stream audio in the web version of
Discord. Basically: a virtual microphone is created which captures the
application audio, and this microphone is then fed to the Discord stream by
intercepting a API call of Discord.
## License
Copyright (C) 2022 Malte Jürgens
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.