CURRENTLY BROKEN

Discord bot video

Video for discord bot proof of concept. This is an experiment done by the Cascadebot team.

This accidental feature/bug has been patched by discord in the latest client update. the client still receives video but just doesn't show it anymore.

features

• Playing vp8 video in a voice channel (not go live, but webcam video)
• Transcoding video and audio to vp8 (using ffmpeg)
• Can send via streams (possible hook with youtube)

implementation

What I implemented and what I did not.

Video codecs

• VP8
• VP9
• H.264

Packet types

• RTP (sending of realtime data)
• RTX (retransmission)
• Go live (?) (Has not been researched yet if even possible)

Extras

• Figure out rtp header extensions (discord specific)

Running example

config.js:

module.exports = "BOT TOKEN HERE"

in /example:

1. have config.js like above
2. have constants.js set correctly for your voice channel
3. set video file path in index.js
4. run with node .