awful voice delay in web discord generally

[j0lol]

anyone experience this? me and my partner get like a good second of delay whenever using any web version of discord, be it webcord or discord-screenaudio or web, at least on linux. very odd?

couldnt think of many better places to ask this and get a real discussion than in webcord discussion

[SpacingBat3]

It makes sense that happen, most clients use generic WebRTC implementation and as I saw some article they described to go with different approach with their propietary module to optimize some stuff, most open source clients not being dependant on their modules will probably not be designed specifically for their architecture.

I also don't think delay is much of the problem – it always occurs in some way at the transmission, especially when all of it goes through the internet and the centralised server. You're probably able to measure it in Discord (ping), so you could check if like changing the server region changes anything. I also think a 1s latency as of the voice might be not that terrible, althrough I don't constantly use Dicord for streaming and voice / video calls and mostly not care that much about the latency in general.

[ceselder]

Experience this too, very annoying, its like 2+ seconds for me. Its fine on the regular discord client.

[davemuscle]

Is there anyway to help debug/fix this? A ~3 second latency in voice chat makes WebCord unusable for me.

[SpacingBat3]

WebCord does nothing with voice management, it relies on Chrome implementation of WebRTC. Discord (and its mods) uses a proprietary implementation based on WebRTC which as Discord claims, might make certain features work better than in case of the generic/browser WebRTC implementation. It is unlikely this will ever improve.

[davemuscle]

Oh well. Thanks for your work