[Question] VoiceChannel Stream

[koo04]

I am attempting to now stream to the discord server. After connecting to the Voice Channel, I can use 'connection' to do 'playStream(stream)' but what is it wanting exactly? I used 'playRawStream(stream, callback)' but it did not seem to start speaking on the server. Is there something I am missing?

Here is a snippet of my current code:

          myBot.joinVoiceChannel(myBot.channels[channelId], function (err, connection) {
            if(err) console.error("Error joining Voice Channel:\n   " + err);

            console.log("Starting Radio");
            Icy.get(settings.radioCast, function (res) {
  //            console.error(res.headers);

              res.on('metadata', function (metadata) {
                var parsed = Icy.parse(metadata);
                console.info(parsed);
              });

//              var dec = res.pipe(new Lame.Decoder()).pipe(connection.playRawStream());
              connection.playStream(res, function(err, str){console.log(err); console.log(str)});

I apologize if this is annoying. There is no documentation on this and I would like to get it working sooner rather then later.

[amishshah]

Do you have ffmpeg/avconv and node-opus (should be installed with discord.js) and also what type of audio is res? Is res a eadable stream?

[koo04]

I am not sure that I have ffmpeg. I didn't think about that. I will check. Node-opus I am pretty sure was there, but will install it in case.

I am unsure the audio format of res. If you notice, I had commented out a line that is the res pipe which I used Lame's decoder on. I think that decoder changes it to mp3 format, but not completely sure. It comes from Icy.

[amishshah]

Ok, well first I'd try installing ffmpeg and adding it to your path. Before you run your bot, make sure you can run ffmpeg from command line.

If it doesn't work after that, then try re-adding the Lame decoder bit

[koo04]

It seemed that it was that ffmpeg was not installed right. I re-installed using npm and it works like a charm. I did have to pipe the decode as well.

Thank you tons for the help! I will be submitting ACTUAL bug reports from now on, as you develop the voice side of this. Maybe even PRs. We will see.