Wondering if anyone knows good alternatives to Discord’s screen sharing feature (good quality, good framerate, low latency, and sound support).
Preferably FOSS, but at this point I’m taking all answers. Feel free to redirect me if there’s any other community I should ask this in.
Jitsi Meet is a good foss choice for video conferencing in general, and includes a decent screen sharing function. You can try it out on the free to use (8x8 hosted, I think?) instance at https://meet.jit.si/
Heads up: that partocular instance now requires the host to be logged in to either a Google or Gihub account first, raising privacy concerns. that’s just how that instance is configured tho, to avoid abuse. it’s also self hostable and there should be other free instances available if you search for them.
edit: just noticed a few already mentioned this one (sorry, i must have scanned too quickly). fyi, Jitsi works well in combo with OBS virtual camera, allowing very precise control over exactly what audio and video you’re streaming
Oh, OBS gives a virtual camera? That’s nice!
i mean cant go wrong with a self hosted matrix instance im pretty sure theres some managed hosts that make the process eaiser i dont know if this is what your looking for but cant go wrong with it
Matrix seems really overkill for this task, and is so damn complicated (probably resource intensive too?)
synapse can be resource intensive but u can conduwuit or now tuwunel and its pretty lightweight https://github.com/girlbossceo/conduwuit https://github.com/matrix-construct/tuwunel
I’ve used jitsi meet (own instance) for this before. OBS might work as well.
Someone proposed this before. I’ll have to try, but I’m afraid it will be a bit janky. Can’t only stream a specific app with sound, and probably can’t configure too much (quality, FPS, …)
What should I use with OBS? I believe it can’t be used by itself, and I need something to stream to.
You can look at VDO.Ninja, rebranded from OBS.Ninja, peer to peer streaming, has a free instance and is self-hostable :)
After testing the non-self hosted version, it seems like the quality isn’t really good :-/ - idk if that’s because I stream from the browser and if OBS will make a difference
Edit: nevermind, it seems like it supports more, but their interface is really not intuitive. I’ll test it, seems nice :)
Yeah, look at this, there are many options to tune: https://docs.vdo.ninja/advanced-settings
Jitsi?
I’ll have to try, but I’m afraid it will be a bit janky. Can’t only stream a specific app with sound
