Question / Help Is there a way to see a audio meter for just the output audio not including the monitor?

[Paul-Tahoe]

I had this happen more than one on a livestream. The scene is playing, the audio meter is moving, I'm hearing the output in the sound, only to have someone text and say there is no audio. Oh, quickly click on the gear, select advanced audio properties and select monitor and output.

Why can't I hear in the headphones off the computer just what's being streamed? I don't care about monitoring it. I want to know what's going out to the stream. Since the stream to YouTube is delayed, in our case about 20 secs, it's 20 secs before I find out there is no audio. NOT GOOD!

We are live streaming religious services. There are 3 or 4 cameras, an external mixer, interspersed prerecorded video, slides, etc. It changes every service. If I don't happen to look at the advanced for every scene to make sure it's set right, some scene might have no audio.

We've had to go to a test stream and do a queue to queue and have someone offsite monitor it to make sure we didn't miss anything.

I figure I must be missing something. These seems like it should be basic.

We use an exernal usb sound box to feed the sound into the mac from the external mixer. We can monitor the sound on it or on headphone jack.

Running obs 24.0.6 and catalina 10.15.4

 

[Silicon_Knight]

I agree - we have not found a good solution on how to actually monitor the audio that is being sent to the stream. (The video can be monitored via the "Projection" feature)

 

[Narcogen]

"Why can't I hear in the headphones off the computer just what's being streamed? I don't care about monitoring it."

... that's what monitoring is.

That said, for an actual confidence monitor, either use a separate hardware device that is accessing the live stream;

Install a local NGINX-RTMP server and stream to it as a test, viewing that stream on an independent device;

How to set up your own private RTMP server using nginx

Most people who stream enjoy using services such as Twitch.tv or Ustream to deliver video to viewers, and that works well enough. But sometimes you want some more control over your stream, or you want other people to be able to stream to you, or...

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Install the OBS-NDI plugin and send the Program output over the local network to a separate device and view it in Studio Monitor.

DistroAV - Network Audio/Video in OBS-Studio using NDI® technology

This plugin adds simple audio/video input and output over IP using NDI® technology. Three integrations are currently available: - NDI Source: add NDI Sources into OBS like any traditional source - NDI Output: transmit the main program view over...

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OBS' audio setup is far from ideal, but the bottom line is it is always possible to fool yourself into thinking you're listening to the program output when you're actually listening to something further upstream if you're trying to monitor on the same machine that is producing the stream. Other software (vmix, tricaster) has features where you designate a device for this monitoring, but even with that, if the audio is available on your PC you could be hearing it even if it is not going to the stream.

 

[1Faith]

How can the audio meter be brought back in to view if it missing it was there before?

 

[1Faith]

How can the audio meter be brought back in to view if it missing it was there before?

Well I found out how to restore it the space below the video window that say's Sources and Controls right click there ,in the widows that opens Audio Mixer will be in there, select it and it will be back in view again!!

 

[wilderf353]

hmm... On Windows, could you use the VB Cable driver?

You could configure OBS to use it as the monitoring device and either use the VB free app VBCABLE_ControlPanel.exe or something like Youlean Loudness Meter as the VB Cable output.