A new "video" channel type, for server-wide video share

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Nelly
We have voice channels, text channels, DM Channels, and Group DM's. Video is coming to discord, to DM channels, to Group DM channels, but not to servers. If servers had "Video" channels with their own permissions like, "connect to channel", "send video", "send audio", "view video", "hear audio", etc, that would be so useful. Think of the possibilities, bots can play videos and everyone can watch them, bots can control what plays. We could have stats channels, like say a tournament is being ran, you could make a bot live show the tournament/game, with stats, information, just like watching a real tournament. We could have "video announcements," like a bot just scrolling through news and stuff constantly, on a loop. and so many many many many many many many many more possibility, it could change communities on Discord forever. (ex NGNL and other Discords). If you have any other "ideas" that could happen if we had such a thing, please do share it below. If you agree! PLEASE UPVOTE! LETS MAKE DISCORD BETTER THAN ANY CHAT APP THAT EXISTS!
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  • Borken_

    This would be a useful feature, at least for the servers I manage. Often times we have members in specific VoIP channels trying to communicate time-stamps of where they are in the video, a video channel would alleviate these issues and it would certainly be popular in the communities I manage. Would be very pleased to see this go through and if you need testers would be more than willing to provide feedback during its development.

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  • blackvelvetXIII

    Is video also included?

     

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  • Lazerit

    It's going to happen — in Canary, some of my voice chats now can also show video, just like DM

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  • donovan_dmc

    You can screen share in a voice channel, and you can make it where only certain roles can join that channel, and I'm sure some permission disables screen share for users. 

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  • lengo
    There are already ways to do this technically. You could only share the live stream link with people in a certain channel or setup voice channel permissions so only certain people can join them and then screen share.
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  • CornerPin

    Is audio also included?

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  • Kyusetzu

    @blackvelvetXIII Obviously is video in screenshare included
    @CornerPin Can confirm, audio works.

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  • zt

    Ah yes, Discord has randomly given this feature to test to 5% of Discord guilds.

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  • hexx

    You can screenshare from voice channels? Where? I don't see it lmao

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  • Syrinx

    I've tried this copy and paste with that link. 
    But discord is shutting down every time I try to start up the screenshare button. 
    Does anyone have a solution for this? Or knows what the problem can be?

    Thanks 

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  • K_dog

    i want this in a server so I can fc and listen to music

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  • Sam

    This would be greatly appreciated by my discord community. We hate going to other apps for this purpose

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  • Eagle

    After a bit of reading I had seen that that idea is already under some sort of construction, with that being said, maybe the little mockup I made might be a good reference for design and formatting?

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  • ||Jojo||
    I think that's not easy to implement but one of the features that a lot of users are missing on Discord!
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  • Eagle

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  • KING

    Cannot wait for this to be released, it would be immeasurably helpful for so many things across servers, and like a few other people have mentioned it would be an incredible relief not to go to other platforms for this feature. 

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  • STANN.co

    Seems it's already partly implemented. Like a previous poster noted. Through developer mode.

    It wouldn't be bigger than having the voice-channel having an option for screenshare. And perhaps an accompanying Voice-channel chat option.

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  • 33Sugee

    as of today I have this feature. maybe its coming soon?

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  • ⠋Sewer56⣠
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    Someone I'm in a voice chat with right now also got this feature.
    It shows as a box in the top right with an option to activate screen share:

     

    That said I'm on the public test build and she's on Stable and I've not got it.

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  • galleta

    de que se puede.. se puede, es solo que todavia nose como habilitar la opcion, en algunos server me aparece y en otros no

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  • alex ☿ raplayer

    This is already a thing, it's just not available in all the servers yet. (it's still in testing)

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  • Marcily

    It's not a bug, some servers can share their screens and sound etc, I own one like that.

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  • Warriorfoox
    There is screensharing in servers except it isn't fully implemented. The URL for screensharing in Voice Channels is discordapp.com/channels/[category id]/[channel id].
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  • ☠ KinoGhoul ☠

    In experimental, can the people that participate in the screen share be restricted to certain server roles / permissions?

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  • lengo
    This would be nice but I think they should perfect the current server screen sharing first.
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  • Dome

    Just use https://www.discordapp.com/channels/ServerID/VoiceChannelID/ and you should be fine (works only on Desktop).

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  • thetechguy
    this would be a good feature to implement
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  • DuckMasterAl
    Duplicate of https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360029802052-A-new-video-channel-type-for-server-wide-video-share
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  • thetechguy
    we need this.
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  • Anatomis (Perfect)
    Yeah. We need this.
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