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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.

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[–] lemonuri@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I've used jitsi meet (own instance) for this before. OBS might work as well.

[–] MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] DomiAlt@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You can look at VDO.Ninja, rebranded from OBS.Ninja, peer to peer streaming, has a free instance and is self-hostable :)

[–] MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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 :)

[–] DomiAlt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, look at this, there are many options to tune: https://docs.vdo.ninja/advanced-settings

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

you can configure both quality and fps, but I think fps can't go above 30.

you could use OBS to PeerTube. you might have to search for an instance that allows unlisted streams though, if you don't want it to be public

[–] MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

Mhh, I would prefer to take a safer option, but thanks for the useful infos :)