Question / Help Audio out while streaming (Church livestream)

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Stephen Bondy

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Hi All,

I am the music director at a smallish Methodist church in Denver, CO. We are using OBS to livestream our church services. I have a couple of cameras set up, we use some pre-recorded video. For live audio from the room, it goes through our soundboard and then into a PreSonus audio interface into my Surface Pro, on which we are running OBS. I have a TV set up as a monitor to duplicate what's on the PC screen so we can see what's going on...

I'm quite pleased with the setup but for one thing. When we show a pre-recorded video, the stream gets the video and audio just fine. For those of us in the room from which we are streaming, we can't hear the audio for these pre-recorded videos. It kinda stinks, sitting there in silence while the folks at home are getting the whole thing. Is there a way to send the audio from those pre-recorded videos out to either the headphone jack on the Surface or to the headphone out of the PreSonus audio interface so we can hear those videos?

Thoughts? I've putzed around with the settings, but haven't been able to make it work.

Thanks in advance,

Steve
 
Sure, in Settings->Audio, set your Monitoring Device to the room output audio line.
In Advanced Audio Properties (click the cog in the mixer, and pick it from the menu) set the Media Source or VLC Video Source to 'Monitor Only' if the room audio output line is being recorded by OBS (say, as the Desktop audio channel). If OBS is not 'listening' to the room audio output line, set it to 'Monitor and Output' instead.

In the first example, you'll play the audio out to the room, OBS will pick it up on the 'desktop audio device' and play it to the stream. If your monitoring device is not being 'listened to' by OBS, those on the stream won't hear the audio, but people in the room will.
In the second example, OBS will play out to the room, and play out on the stream. If OBS is listening to the monitoring device, people on the stream will get doubled audio.

It comes down to if you have OBS 'hearing' any audio from the computer itself (output channels), or only microphone/audio inputs, in your setup.
 
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