neko-life/discord-screen-share-fix-audio-on-linux

Discord Screen Share Fix Audio on Linux

Discord Screen Share Fix Audio on Linux

No need too much bla-bla lets just get it over with.

Requirements

• pulseaudio: This thing is our savior. Usually comes pre-installed. If not then probably your system is using something else so better not use this script than breaking your system by replacing your current one with pulseaudio, this script is for pulseaudio only.
• pavucontrol-qt: To configure input and output from mic and app into discord. Very useful tool for routing your audio.

Setting Up

Just run the script:

./discord-scrshrwa.sh

chmod +x it first if it's not executable yet.

And then boot up discord, hop in a VC and start streaming. It's that ez, so simple right.

hol' up, it's not done yet

Now you're in a vc and streaming some hanime with no audio, your friends and gfs that are watching are complainin in the background as you're doing these:

Open pavucontrol-qt and find your browser/game in Playback tab and set its playback on app, and then go to the Recording tab and find something like WEBRTC VoiceEngine :recStream and set its source to Monitor of mic+app.

Anddddddd Done

Close (or don't) pavucontrol-qt.

Go back to discord, unmute yourself and continue your hanime and watch together with everyone, safe and sound.

Tips

• You can mute your mic in pavucontrol-qt.
• Try setting discord input sensitivity to -100dB(or -99dB if you want the indicator to show when your audio is inactive) on discord settings.
• If you wanna remove the virtual streams, run

pactl unload-module <number>

where <number> is one of the script's terminal output. Do it once for each number. If you forget the numbers, run

pactl list

and find the virtual streams number.

• If discord ever prompt you to switch audio device, don't switch!
• If you don't want to run the script every time you boot up your PC, copy the codes from the script (exclude the first line) and append it to your /etc/pulse/default.pa, make sure to remove the pactl prefix from each line.
• There's pavucontrol which uses GTK, if you have display issue with pavucontrol-qt you might want to use that.

Issues

• If discord crashes when streaming, ignore it. Try streaming again, usually only one time crash.

Tested in

• Manjaro Linux (Arch)
• Ubuntu 20.04
• Arch Linux x86_64
• Void Linux

discord-screen-share-fix-audio-on-linux's Issues

Recording tab no longer switching to "app" or "mic+app"

Program was working perfectly on PopOS! 22.04 without issue.

Something appears to now have changed (maybe something got updated) and whilst I can switch the playback option to 'app' and 'mic+app' the recording tab can display the option to select these but won't actually allow me to switch, either during playback or outside of it.

QjackCtl is showing everything looks routed just fine, but PulseAudio-qt just won't allow me to select what's clearly on display.

Again, not sure if this is an issue with the discord-scrshrwa.sh script or just a more general issue with PulseAudio itself now.

Weird audio feedback?

After I appended the script to /etc/pulse/default.pa, I started having audio issues with feedback pop up, seemingly at random. Either I'll start hearing an echo of myself, or I'll hear a loud feedback noise (even if audio is coming through headphones and my microphone shouldn't be able to pick it up). As of now, I don't know how to intentionally trigger either one.
I'm not sure about the echo, but the feedback noise seems more likely to happen when I've changed something about my audio input or output, like when I unplug a microphone or disconnect my bluetooth earbuds.

I'm not 100% sure the script caused this, but I don't think this happened before I started using it, and I don't know what else it could be.

Thank You

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Works randomly

I was using your commands for so long on KDE... and then even on two window manager installations. Suddenly since the last installation (exact install as a wm i used earlier), it works only at random sessions. Any idea what could be going wrong here? Really wish to debug this

Notworking. (still no audio)

I use archlinux, with the kernel 5.16.4-arch1-1. and im using pulseaudio 15.0

Every time I unplug my microphone, it stops recognizing it and I have to rerun the script

Running void linux. Works flawlessly until I reset or unplug my microphone, then it just doesn't work unless I run the script again. If I run the script again, it adds 2 new streams, and IDK how to remove the old ones.
Perhaps a secondary script to do that would be useful? Don't like having to rerun it each time I try to do it.

cool but

If i am transmitting audio, then people talking to me cut out on my end which is bad and unfortunate