Question / Help Need desperate help setting up dual PC stream audio.

[zazzoostream]

Hello everyone as my title states im having problems setting up my audio for my dual pc setup. i have a Avermedia Live Gamer Extreme capture card, here is how its currently set up with no audio but i get perfect video.

Gaming computer HDMI -> Capture Card Input ------- Capture Card USB 3.0 -> Streaming Computer.

I want to be able to take the audio from my desktop and "stream" it to the other computer. what i was able to find online was that i was going to need a program Virtual Audio Cable or Voicemeeter and connect to my gaming computer with a 3.5mm cable somehow.

Does anyone know the correct setup for me to achieve this, i would seriously love you forever because ive been searching far and wide and i cant stream without the second pc involed!

Thanks for anyone who helps in advanced!

 

[FerretBomb]

You can also set up Voicemeeter/VB-Audio or VAC to output system audio over your video card's HDMI output, and just capture the system audio in-sync with the video coming from your capture device. Probably the simplest way.

The 3.5mm cable is called a 'dubbing cable' by some (also used for many AUX IN applications in cars, stereos, etc) and should be considered a fallback method. You plug it into your gaming system's speaker-out port, to your streaming machine's motherboard Line In port. Should be considered a fallback method, as it's lower quality than direct HDMI audio, and you have to re-sync it with the video (and it can drift).

The real PITA (and why most stick with a 1PC setup) is getting your mic audio to both machines, allowing in-game VoIP and still being able to use mic audio to speak to your viewers via the mic channel in OBS. A splitter can work for a standard 3.5 audio jack, a mixing desk for XLR, and USB all-in-ones are pretty much SOL.

 

[zazzoostream]

so i should be able to stream my blue yeti mic and my razer megladon through only hdmi is what your saying?

if not what do i need to do?

if anyone else can put their two cents in i would appricate it

 

[zazzoostream]

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[FerretBomb]

Not really, no. You could use VB-Audio/Voicemeeter to set up a virtual cable putting out system audio both to your headset and the HDMI audio channel, allowing system audio to be captured by the capture device and still played back on your headset.

You could then either connect your USB all-in-one to the casting machine and use that only for on-cast speech and a second mic (such as your headset mic) for in-game voicechat. Using it for both, you'd need to either set it to 'listen to this device' so it was transmitted along with system audio (also removing the ability to change the mic/game audio balance independently), or set up a second virtual audio cable to output the mic on a separate output (such as your motherboard's speaker outs) and connect that to a line-in on the second PC, with OBS looking to that input device for mic audio. Major hassle, but about the only option when you're stuck with a USB all-in-one mic like most of Blue's hardware offerings. Otherwise, back to the first post, just SOL.

It's complicated and a pain in the butt to make work right, and is again, why most who don't actively need it just stick with a 1PC setup.