Question / Help Audio Monitoring not working

[dreadheaded]

After having loads of issues with my computer I decided to reformat and reinstall everything, ever since I have not been able to get audio monitoring working correctly whatever I do


Even when set to Monitor Only{mute only} It does not output to my desktop device, no matter what device I select

 

[Suslik V]

What source you are trying to monitor? Output devices (yet) and self monitoring not supported. Please post a log with your issue! Here's how... Also, post screenshot of your Edit>Advanced Audio Properties of OBS Studio.

 

[dreadheaded]

Here is the log and the screenshot you requested

https://gist.github.com/3ae4e1427c0321fb822c5e53456917eb

 

[dreadheaded]

oh sorry all the sources im trying to monitor are video files, some in VLC some in Media player

(Note) I only use media source on videos with alpha transparency

 

[Suslik V]

I mean, window under "gear" icon of the Mixer (or main menu Edit>Advanced Audio Properties)...

Anyway, you are using virtual output :(
As far as I know it should work OK with monitoring: No Audio Monitoring or OBS Studio 18.0.0 Audio Monitoring bug maybe?, so i can only suggest: try to run OBS Studio as admin.

By the way, the green volume level is "moving" in Mixer's list while your source active?

 

[dreadheaded]

you mean this one??

and no no sign of it outputting the audio at all, I have also tried different audio devices as I have 3 audio interfaces on this PC

 

[Suslik V]

Do you have video sample to test on my end? Shortest one. Post link to it.

 

[dreadheaded]

Ok I apologize I worked out the issue, as a last ditch attempt to fix it I went into playback settings for the USB Drivers for my Mixer and deselected "Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device" that seems to have fixed the issue

 

[MovemLive]

Problems with monitoring flipping out when switching between scenes! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zYykhDomYkbETh6ApTsafxJu3_7lJwDo/view?usp=sharing

 

[Suslik V]

@MovemLive obs has next/previous for the VLC Video Source (it can playback music too). If you are using x64 obs, install x64 VLC Player.

 

[unional]

@Suslik V I have the same problem as @MovemLive. Installing x64 VLC Player does not solve the problem.

I'm using obs 25.0.8

 

[Suslik V]

@unional If this is some kind of bug in the recent version of the application then try to fill out new report on the github: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues

 

[Kbbles]

@unional Just wanted to say what worked for me! made an account just for this lol

I downloaded & installed VLC x64 on top of whatever I had before. Still no dice. However... I went into Advanced Audio Properties, changed the Audio Monitoring value & changed it back, and now it works properly again!

I did this for 1 browser source & 1 media playback source, each were affected by this bug. After doing it for one of each of those categories, the others (the remaining affected browser sources & remaining affected media playback sources) started working again too.

No clue why this worked or how, but it worked c: