Question / Help Broadcast audio while muting it locally

[cmtts]

I want to stream console games via capture card that I'm playing on a TV. The capture card software plays the game audio, but naturally the TV will be playing audio as well.

Hearing the game audio from two sources would get irritating, so is there a method I can use to stream the audio from the capture card at normal volumes but keep it from playing on my speakers? If possible I'd like to stream/hear all other desktop sounds/mic input as normal.

 

[Krazy]

If you just mute your TV will the capture card still pick up the sound from the console?

 

[cmtts]

I would be playing from the TV and the audio from the capture card would be slightly delayed, so that's not the ideal solution for me.

I know you can use Virtual Audio Cable to exclude some audio from being streamed while still playing it locally, so I guess this is kind of the reverse?

 

[Krazy]

Er wait, what about just turning off your PC speakers?

 

[cmtts]

Sorry, I guess I didn't explain enough. I usually talk to people over Skype (they usually watch me play) so I want to keep my speakers on. I guess turning off the PC speakers would suffice if I didn't talk to anyone, but I figured there must be some method out there to do what I want in the topic post.

 

[Kharay]

I can't really see a way to do this; not even using VAC. It's going to be either or in any case. I mean, what you could do is use VAC as the audio playback device for the capture card and then simply selecting VAC as audio input device for OBS. This would prevent you from hearing the capture card's audio yourself.

However, you would not capture the mic/desktop sounds like that.

I agree with Krazy, muting either the TV speakers or the PC speakers is the only viable and working approach. Or wearing a good headset, to avoid hearing any surrounding sound.

 

[Greendweller]

Hi i dont have a solution but i was thinking the following:

A microfoon in windows has a playback option so you can also hear you voice over your own speakers.
But it also has an option to disable that and it still pipes the sound to (a program)

isn't there a program to make this option available for other sources? win 7 neatly captures all sound sources in it's standard mixer like vlc and teamspeak and such.

Or perhaps using an mp3 player on a line in of your sound card and see if taht has the option?

Not sure if that works tho,

just my 2 cents.

 

[cmtts]

Well, looks like I'll just have to suck it up and mute the PC speakers or something. Oh well.

I appreciate the help, anyway.

 

[zipsul]

For Linux users: This problem was bothering me for the longest time, so I had an inspiration, why not install the alsamixer and see what can be done with that. Like most laptops, there is no control to turn down the speakers while leaving the software volume up. I used the alsamixer to turn off the laptop's speakers and the sound still went with the stream to the TV. See image below for my configuration.

To install on Ubuntu or Debian do: apt-get install alsamixer. The go to the command line and type alsamixer.