Are you looking to stream HBO Max on Discord to have some fun watching movies and your favorite shows? Well, you can easily do that without any complications. You can easily host a movie or TV series watch party along with your friends over screen-share. There are also some users who are reporting that streaming HBO Max Discord emits a black screen. So, in this guide, I will explain how you can stream HBO Max on Discord easily and solve problems related to black screen or missing audio issues, etc.
Best Ways to Stream HBO Max on Discord (2023)
If you want to stream HBO Max on Discord, then I am going to tell you a couple of things first that you need to address. First, you should know that streaming HBO Max on any streaming platform is considered to be illegal. However, you can try to use some third-party tools like Teleparty to stream HBO Max on Discord.
In any case, if you still want to go ahead and watch HBO Max content on Discord, then follow the steps given below.
- First, download and install Discord on your PC.
- After that open the User Settings in Discord. You will find this option on the lower left side corner of the screen.
- Now, scroll down and click on the Advanced tab.
- On the right side, you have to disable the Hardware Acceleration option. It will ask you to relaunch Discord, so just go ahead and do that.
- After relaunching Discord again, go to User Settings and scroll down and scroll down to click on Activity Status.
- On the right side, click on the Add It (blue icon) option and add Google Chrome as a game to watch HBO Max via the same browser.
- Now click on ESC at the top right side under Activity Status.
- Now, go to the Voice Channel and at the bottom, you will see Google Chrome popping up as a game that you can directly stream from.
- Highlight Google Chrome and then click on the Stream Google Chrome option.
- A new window will pop up, here click on Go Live.
- After that, you will see a screen pop up inside of a video preview with the web browser that you trying to broadcast.
- You will notice that the screen is still showing a blank and black screen.
- So, open Google Chrome and go to Settings.
- Search for hardware and just disable the option of “Use hardware acceleration when available”.
- After restarting the browser, you should start seeing the video playing under Discord in the screen share. However, if the video is still not showing up, then try to clear the browser cache, and Discord cache.
- Finally, in this way, you will be able to share HBO Max with your friends on Discord.
That is everything you need to know about how to stream HBO Max on Discord in 2022. While you are here, you can also check out our other guides on the Best Video Compressors for Discord, and How to Mark an Image as a Spoiler in Discord.
