PrBoom+/DSDA-Doom - No audio when streaming

[Ronald Raygun]

I stream to my friends in Discord fairly regularly, but when I stream they do not hear anything besides music. Currently I have tried using PRBoom+ and DSDA-Doom, and in DSDA they don't hear anything at all. I'm curious if anyone has run into this issue before, or has any recommendations. Thanks!

[Redneckerz]

What audio output are you using?

[Ronald Raygun]

9 hours ago, Redneckerz said:

What audio output are you using?

Do you mean in PrBoom, or in Discord? As far as I’m aware, you can’t change your audio output in Boom. I normally use my default desktop audio for Discord. 

[Redneckerz]

5 hours ago, Ronald Raygun said:

Do you mean in PrBoom, or in Discord? As far as I’m aware, you can’t change your audio output in Boom. I normally use my default desktop audio for Discord. 

Discord. Whats the default audio called?

[Major Arlene]

If you're streaming your entire desktop, Discord will not play sound on a window for some reason. Stream your window only and they should hear the audio if Discord's sound settings are correct.

[sukerokushin]

a bit late, but i've experienced this across both crispy and dsda-doom and i can tell you the culprit is windows' midi synthesis. discord doesn't grab music from the source ports because the source ports arent playing the music back. if you try using fluidsynth + a config specified soundfont you'll see the music will work through discord again because now the ports are using their built-in fluidsynth library for midi playback. a good way to sidestep this while not diverging from the microsoft gs sound is to use something like RLNDGM.SF2 with fluidsynth, which is a readily available soundfont conversion of the normal microsoft gs wavetable.

for the record this also applies to any other kind of midi stuff running through portmidi—personally i use the roland sound canvas VA vsti for when i want sc-55 sounding music, and discord doesnt pick up on that either. unclear how this would work on other OSes

Edited June 8, 2023 by sukerokushin