Application Audio Capture foreground window with Hotkey

[thesamuraiwho]

I was using bozbez's win-capture-audio (https://github.com/bozbez/win-capture-audio) until upgrading to the latest version of OBS. With win-capture-audio, I could create a hotkey to capture the foreground window application and also the hotkey (I know this is not recommended but it worked) to capture the foreground window at the same time. I.e. select a foreground window and capture both the video and audio with a single hotkey. This was how I was able to record a game based on a single hotkey rather than hard coding multiple game/window captures or manually changing the "Application Audio Capture" every time since I do multitrack audio capture for editing purposes.

In the latest version of OBS and for several versions now after the introduction of the "Application Audio Capture" source, it only allows manual the selection of the application source but not based on a hotkey. I play and use many games and apps so manually changing it every time has caused issues when I forgot to change the audio and lost significant chunks of gameplay audio.

Is there a way to do it within the current OBS? If not, is there a way for me to request the feature/develop this feature? I have some programming experience but have not worked in C++ or read the docs/source for OBS so that might be too big of a challenge.

Thanks for the help. This is my first time posting on this forum so appreciate the feedback and if this is not the place to post this, please let me know. Thanks again and have a wonderful day!

 

[elmazz]

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[erti73]

Apparently when you use the "Game Capture" source you can enable "Capture Audio" which does exactly what you're looking for neatly compacted into the source