Question / Help Audio output greyed out?

[ruxxar]

In Settings -> Encoding -> Audio Encoding -> Format : The drop down box is greyed out. How do I enable it? I need to change the format from stereo to mono, just like I can in xsplit.

 

[Lain]

I have only stereo output coded in the app at the moment, because there is really almost never any reason to use mono -- may I ask why you'd like to use mono? Bandwidth concerns?

 

[ruxxar]

The reason is that I have a mono microphone. But my audio card has a stereo mic output. This leads to my mic output only being on one channel, which means you only hear my microphone on one ear piece(left in my case). I need to output the audio as mono so that you won't have the 1 deaf ear issue.

 

[Lain]

My app should automatically converts your mono mic to stereo though. Is that not the case? In your stream output, do you only get the mic audio in one side? If so, that should not be happening

 

[Muf]

If the sound card input is stereo it will have very faint static on the right stereo channel. I don't think you can really reliably detect that within OBS-- you'd need a "Downmix to mono" switch or something similar in the microphone settings.

 

[Lain]

Ah, thank you muf, I understand now, so he's plugging a mono device into a stereo port is what you're saying. I think a better fix (and easier for me), is to give him an option to force the audio device to mono, rather than force the stream output to mono.

Ruxxar - I will implement a checkbox in the audio settings that will let you force it to mono, is that okay? It would be much better than forcing your entire stream output to mono, so it wouldn't affect your game/desktop sound.

 

[Muf]

I think a better fix (and easier for me), is to give him an option to force the audio device to mono, rather than force the stream output to mono.

Yup, that's exactly what I meant. Although I'm not sure if you'd run into device compatibility issues if you "force" the input to mono, rather downmixing what you receive from the device to mono would just do the trick and doesn't rely on the device being able to output mono when forced to do so.

 

[Lain]

Sorry, downmixing it to mono is what I meant.

 

[ruxxar]

Yeah, that sounds like a great fix! Regular audio is already working fine in stereo its only the mic I need in mono. Thanks for the quick response jim!

 

[Lain]

Added that feature for you in the latest daily build