Help with audio

[Mickgames2022]

Hi, I’m trying to figure out a way to get my audio from GTA RP servers to play through to my stream so they can hear interactions with people, my monitor has no speakers or aux however though and I’m using a cheap capture card is their anyway I can get the audio from my pc to the obs live streams?

 

[AaronD]

I assume USB? Cheap USB capture cards tend to be random in what actually works or doesn't.

A common trick is to put a USB 3 connector on it, and play up how much better USB 3 is than USB 2......and then put a USB 2 chip behind that connector so that you're limited to USB 2 anyway! So, guaranteed lossy compression *in the card*, just to cram "HD" video through USB 2, and possibly some other tricks or half-baked hacks that barely work.

I had 4 cheap USB cards in one rig and 1 in a different one, before I figured that out. My audio always came from elsewhere, so I never tested that from those capture cards.

Now I have a name brand for that 1, that actually *is* USB 3, and a 4-input PCIe for the other one. Much better all around! And I do get audio from at least the USB one. Still haven't tried the PCIe, but it says it does and my computer recognizes it as 4 audio inputs that I keep muted.

 

[AaronD]

If you really want to keep the cheap capture card, then you might put a USB audio line-in on the OBS machine and a USB audio line-out on the source machine, and run a cord between those.

But by the time you get two of even the cheapest decent USB line-level interfaces (too-cheap there is trash again), and a cheap cord to go between, you're about on par with a name brand USB capture card already, which would probably also give you a better picture.