Question / Help Help With Audio Playback Problems on Windows 10

theRuckus357

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I make Let's Play videos for my YouTube channel. I've never had a real problem with OBS until today.
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I've got my recordings set to record separate audio tracks. The first track is everything together. The second is the game via Elgato. The third track is the commentary via the Blue Yeti. Typically, I record my videos and once they're completed I can play them back on the default media player for Windows 10 (Movies & TV) and I am able to hear everything just fine.
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Today, there's a problem. I can't hear the voice audio! When I use the default media player to watch the raw recording, all I get is the game audio from Elgato. I can hear the game audio (walking around, smashing leaves, etc.). I just can't hear my voice. It's obviously registering and recording. The waves are there. But where's the sound? Please help!
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I've seen other posts that suggest you can't hear the full audio from separate tracks on default media players like Movies & TV or Windows Media Player. I'm not saying that's not true, but I am saying that's never been a problem up until today. I think that it might be that way for me only because I record all my inputs on Track 1, just as a backup or alternate source, so maybe that's why I can usually hear it there, but today it's not working and I'm not sure why. I haven't shared any screenshots or anything because I don't know what's relevant or what you want to see... just let me know and I'll post them ASAP. If I ever figure out the issue, I'll try to comment the solution below. Thanks in advance for your help guys!
 
Many default video players (like Windows Movies & TV) do not have good codec support, and can fail to properly open files (missing video/audio) created with OBS. Use VLC instead - https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

Thanks for the suggestion. It's just weird that it's happening to begin with. As I said, I've made many videos in the past and NEVER had this happen before. Not sure what's changed. I use these programs almost everyday. I don't think there was an update recently.
 
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