Question / Help I NEED HELP!!!! ASAP

[Ryan Kellner]

Whenever I try to livestream for console with Obs it says Device is in use by another application!! What do I do?

 

[Jack0r]

Make sure all other programs that can use the device are closed, for example Skype tends to "grab" devices and use them even while being inactive and just loaded in the background. A bit more info could be useful though, what kind of device are you using? what manufacturer? etc.

 

[Ryan Kellner]

Make sure all other programs that can use the device are closed, for example Skype tends to "grab" devices and use them even while being inactive and just loaded in the background. A bit more info could be useful though, what kind of device are you using? what manufacturer? etc.

The device i'm using is an Elgato Game Capture Hd

 

[Jack0r]

Ah oki, that normally should work fine, I assume my suggestion didnt help? One more thing that sometimes fixes everything is a system restart. Just reboot windows and test again.
A community member also wrote a guide how to use the elgato, if you want to check if he did something different:
https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-setup-the-elgato-game-capture-hd-in-obs.48/

Edit: One more idea, did you add the elgato as a global source to OBS? But now try to use it as a video capture device instead of adding the global source?

 

[Ryan Kellner]

It did not work i tried everything you told me and it didn't work.