How to get rid of exclusive use of devices from every application on the system?

[Klaas]

Hi,
I think OBS is a great app but it has the same problem all other apps have on my machine (W10x64); when I start an app that uses the audio device, no other device can use it. Even when I start OBS i cannot play the video file and hear the sound. If I stop OBS I can play and hear sound.

Hope someone can give me a great tip to get rid of this and use OBS.

 

[konsolenritter]

Exclusive use of audio devices is managed by the sound settings in windows.
Video files may be played within OBS, too.

 

[Klaas]

Exclusive use of audio devices is managed by the sound settings in windows.
Video files may be played within OBS, too.

Hi Konsoleritter,

I already have disabled exclusive use of all my devices in Windows but still to no avail. Is there a way that OBS can get around this? And I looked on youtube how to play a video file and that looks ok. What I really want to do is record webex sessions but I cannot use more then one app at a time or I don't have any sound.

 

[WBE]

At the Audio Mixer: click the cog wheel icon, Advanced Audio Properties. Is the Audio Monitoring set to Monitor Off?
(Output = the sound going to the stream and/or recording; Monitor = the sound for you, the OBS operator at the laptop.)