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Discord video question…

Is it better to use Roll20 video + Discord audio or to run both in Discord? Roll20 audio/video currently does a weird thing where the last two people to join the game can’t hear each other…
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keithcurtis
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Hi RPGeezer! Unfortunately, it's going to depend on your individual experience. Anecdotally, some folks have problems with it, some folks avoid it because of problems it had years ago and they never came back, and some folks use it regularly without incident. I'm in that last group (with GM + 4 players). The whisper function, combined with not having to sacrifice screen real estate is a winner for me.
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Andrew R.
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Seconding KeithCurtis here.  I’ve never used the Roll20 video & voice because all of my games are intercontinental.  I started with Google and switched to Discord when Google changed the API. I’m still using Discord now. However, I never use video, my computer has no webcam.
We can't even use Discord video because of some of my players' dodgy internet connections. For one player their only option is DSL!
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keithcurtis
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Rick A. said: We can't even use Discord video because of some of my players' dodgy internet connections. For one player their only option is DSL! Like our caveman ancestors?!
It's worked well for me.  There was a period where voice video stopped working last year for several weeks and with Jumpgate still in beta at the time we wound up using discord until jumpgate came out of beta.  It's been fine since then.  If you wind up with 2 players not being able to hear each other they can actually click on the other's avatars and reconnect to them.  Not too often in my games, but I've seen it happen. International has also not been an issue.  I'm on the West Coast of the US, 3 of my players are on the East Coast and my last player is in Australia.  Occasionally there are issues with Australia, but discord had them as well so it's likely more just a bad day for the undersea cables, or as we like to say "The raccoons are messing with the undersea cable again." The top gotcha I see that trips people up is you have to give roll20 permission to use your mic and cam in your web browser.  It should prompt for this, but sometimes people don't pay attention or they blocked it forever ago and don't know how to allow it again.  It's an easy google search to figure out how to do that for you particular browser. Asides from the permission thing, most of the time when I've seen people blame roll20 when voice isn't working is that their OS is either not picking up their mic or is configured to use the wrong one and because of that the issue turns out to happen in discord as well.
It’s weird as the rest of us can hear both of them. And reconnecting doesn’t seem to fix it. That’s why I am wondering which is more robust between Roll20 video with Discord voice vs. BOTH via Discord…
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keithcurtis
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How many people in the game, and do the two people who can't hear each other share the same connection? IN any case, you can receive better help by going through the troubleshooting steps on this page . The last section describes how to send technical information to Roll20 in case the suggestions on the page do not help resolve the issues.
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It doesn’t matter who the last two are as it happens whoever it is. We had 5 people total, but it started happening with 4 of us on. Not a biggie as we are willing to use Discord…