Silver-Streak
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Hello,
Way more detail below if needed, but I just got a Magewell Pro Capture HDMI installed, and hooked up my Nintendo Switch to it.
It is running through a HDMI splitter that goes to my 5.1 receiver and the capture card. When testing the surround sound option on the switch, my receiver gets all 5.1 channels properly. If using Magewell's internal software, it gets all 5.1 channels properly as well.
However, OBS will get no audio if I tell it to capture audio from the capture card directly, and only gets Front Left/Front Right (2.0 audio) if I tell it to get audio from the secondary recording device the capture card adds. All center channel and rear channel audio is ignored.
Any ideas what might cause this, or if there's something I have to enable to downmix the 5.1 to stereo? (I have no desire to broadcast in 5.1 audio, just to have my receiver still output 5.1 to me while I st ream).
Log here for audio bound as custom source: https://gist.github.com/38fd662022f261bc56a672fed988bf8d
Log here for audio set as "capture audio only"
More detail: I had been running an AverMedia C027 capture card forever. It worked fine, but only supported 720p, and due to the wonders of HDMI EDID, did not allow for me to use 5.1 whenever I was hooked up to it. Through the splitter, it would be detected as 2.0, and EDID would force my receiver to the same.
The solution I found is that I needed to find a capture card that supported multi-channel audio, so the EDID would at least stay 5.1 for my receiver. I found the Blackmagic Intensity Pro 4k and the Magweell Pro Capture HDMI both had this functionality. Upon some research, it seems like the Blackmagic had a lot of anecdotal instances of pretty bad latency and other issues with OBS and streaming software, so I decided to go with the Magewell.
It arrived today and installed no problem, and has insane (sub 35 ms) latency. The receiver/splitter DOES detect its EDID as supporting multichannel audio, so I still get 5.1 out of my receiver. However, now I don't get the majority of the important audio (voice) through OBS as it doesn't detect the center or rear channels.
I couldn't find anything exactly like this through search (lots of people wanting to broadcast 5.1 audio, which is not quite what I'm looking for), so any and all help is greatly appreciated.
Way more detail below if needed, but I just got a Magewell Pro Capture HDMI installed, and hooked up my Nintendo Switch to it.
It is running through a HDMI splitter that goes to my 5.1 receiver and the capture card. When testing the surround sound option on the switch, my receiver gets all 5.1 channels properly. If using Magewell's internal software, it gets all 5.1 channels properly as well.
However, OBS will get no audio if I tell it to capture audio from the capture card directly, and only gets Front Left/Front Right (2.0 audio) if I tell it to get audio from the secondary recording device the capture card adds. All center channel and rear channel audio is ignored.
Any ideas what might cause this, or if there's something I have to enable to downmix the 5.1 to stereo? (I have no desire to broadcast in 5.1 audio, just to have my receiver still output 5.1 to me while I st ream).
Log here for audio bound as custom source: https://gist.github.com/38fd662022f261bc56a672fed988bf8d
Log here for audio set as "capture audio only"
More detail: I had been running an AverMedia C027 capture card forever. It worked fine, but only supported 720p, and due to the wonders of HDMI EDID, did not allow for me to use 5.1 whenever I was hooked up to it. Through the splitter, it would be detected as 2.0, and EDID would force my receiver to the same.
The solution I found is that I needed to find a capture card that supported multi-channel audio, so the EDID would at least stay 5.1 for my receiver. I found the Blackmagic Intensity Pro 4k and the Magweell Pro Capture HDMI both had this functionality. Upon some research, it seems like the Blackmagic had a lot of anecdotal instances of pretty bad latency and other issues with OBS and streaming software, so I decided to go with the Magewell.
It arrived today and installed no problem, and has insane (sub 35 ms) latency. The receiver/splitter DOES detect its EDID as supporting multichannel audio, so I still get 5.1 out of my receiver. However, now I don't get the majority of the important audio (voice) through OBS as it doesn't detect the center or rear channels.
I couldn't find anything exactly like this through search (lots of people wanting to broadcast 5.1 audio, which is not quite what I'm looking for), so any and all help is greatly appreciated.
