Question / Help How do you stream console through obs and PC and not hear 2 audio sources?

[Marc Simpson]

Streaming pc games is absolutely fine through obs.
So I have had a problem for a while now with streaming my consoles.

I have a HDPVR2 and offcourse use OBS to stream
When I stream via console and capture device, I monitor capture the "capture" section of Arcsoft (Which is the capture software for PVRs)

My problem is I hear the game audio through my headset from the console and through the PC (At a delay from the capture card)
I hear these together,
And as you can imagine this is a recipe for headaches to hear both
The reason why I want to hear PC as well as console sounds is because I want to hear voice comms and music

Offcourse If I muted the audio source from the capture card software I would hear the console game sounds, But viewers wouldn't hear them. And of course I can't mute the console because I'd hear the game audio at a delay from the PC.

Is there an way to work around this?

PS. To hear the game audio and PC at the same time, My headset is astros and I use a mixamp with the fibre optic port

 

[Jack0r]

With a capture card that is supported by OBS you can select to output the audio to the stream and not your Desktop.
What you could do though is use a VB-Cable or Virtual Audio Cable to be your default device in windows, so it will receive the sound from the arcsoft software, you also select this in OBS as your desktop device.
Now in your voice communication and music software you would have to configure the output to use your headset. That way you will only hear those two sources. It gets a bit more complicated if you want voice comm and music on stream too.

 

[Marc Simpson]

Thanks for the reply!,
Is there a list of capture cards that are supported by OBS and would one of those make achieving this easier?
My HDPVR2 is getting old and seems to overheat alot, I'd definately consider more capture card options

The music and voice com are ok to be heard by stream, I dont mind this. Or are you saying by using a VB or virtual audio cable by default I wont hear these?

Also how do I learn how to use a VB or Virtual audio cable as my default device

If I can run Only my capture card audio source through OBS with a VG or VA cable this helps,
But this would mean If I was to listen to music my stream wouldn't hear it?