Hey all, I recently updated my capture card to the GC573. I would like to have the audio from my console play through my headphones without having to use software so I tried going into the sound settings in control panel and listening to the device. For some reason this doesn't work, I happened upon a video where the person was able to get audio playback by activating and listening to the "Line In" device in the recording tab but this exact device says it's not being detected for some reason. I know the Capture Card is producing sound because i can monitor it in OBS. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Need help playing audio from my new AverMedia Live Gamer 4K (GC573)
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That *is* how it's supposed to work. Don't know why it doesn't.
But, you could buy an HDMI audio extractor and plug your headphones into that. They're fairly cheap.
Or you could keep OBS open.
Or you could use something like Voicemeeter to route audio instead of OBS, if that's all it's doing.
But, you could buy an HDMI audio extractor and plug your headphones into that. They're fairly cheap.
Or you could keep OBS open.
Or you could use something like Voicemeeter to route audio instead of OBS, if that's all it's doing.
Hi,
I've had a similar desire so figured I'd share what I know as I haven't seen any better answer on the internet.
TLDR: the capture card firmware isn't considered an "audio inputs and outputs" device (it is a sound, video, and game controller) so to my knowledge you can't do what you're asking. This is true such that windows or any app can't really play JUST the audio but receives the feed as all or nothing (or something like that).
That said, from what I understand, the pass-through is passing the audio to the end device along with the video, so if you are using the HDMI out to a monitor that has an audio port or speakers, it's likely these would play the audio. The monitor I'm passing to doesn't, so I haven't been able to check myself. It's possible you could use an aux cable from your monitor back to your PC sound board to get the PC to recognize a source that's only playing the audio from the capture card, but I'm not sure if or how you could get this to work or what kind of latency this might have.
What I ultimately did for awhile was use the Avermedia RE central app with the multi screen feature so that it would only play the audio via audio preview, but this app kinda sucks and I wouldn't recommend using it. Half the time it doesn't even recognize my capture card despite everything being up to date and there being no issues. That said, if you wanted to use this app, you still could and would match the same setup below but substituting the RECentral App for OBS.
Alternatively, what I do now that uses the least amount of resources from my PC is as follows:
In OBS Studio I have a scene with just the capture card with preview disabled:
In advanced audio properties, I have the Audio Monitoring set to Monitor and Output:
*Note: If you just want to hear the source and nothing else, you could set to Monitor Only and skip the rest.
In System Settings I have output device set to a virtual cable from Voicemeeter. I believe you need to pay Voicemeeter for this, but I got it a long time ago and don't know if that's changed.
Finally, I have the Virtual Cable selected as a source in Voicemeeter:
At this point, any app you want to send the audio to should recognize the Virtual Cable as an audio source, and that Virtual Cable should be playing back the audio from your capture card. Even though this use case doesn't really make sense since the capture card source is already playing the audio, as an example you could now add the Virtual Cable as an "Audio Input Capture" source in OBS:
Or for a better example that I typically use, you can use the capture card as the device for a discord stream with the Virtual Cable as the audio device:
As for why the card doesn't work like we want it to, I got the below response from Avermedia support:
Though it would be nice, I see their point as it's a pretty niche use case (I had the capture card for ~2 years and never knew I wanted it until recently.
I've had a similar desire so figured I'd share what I know as I haven't seen any better answer on the internet.
TLDR: the capture card firmware isn't considered an "audio inputs and outputs" device (it is a sound, video, and game controller) so to my knowledge you can't do what you're asking. This is true such that windows or any app can't really play JUST the audio but receives the feed as all or nothing (or something like that).
That said, from what I understand, the pass-through is passing the audio to the end device along with the video, so if you are using the HDMI out to a monitor that has an audio port or speakers, it's likely these would play the audio. The monitor I'm passing to doesn't, so I haven't been able to check myself. It's possible you could use an aux cable from your monitor back to your PC sound board to get the PC to recognize a source that's only playing the audio from the capture card, but I'm not sure if or how you could get this to work or what kind of latency this might have.
What I ultimately did for awhile was use the Avermedia RE central app with the multi screen feature so that it would only play the audio via audio preview, but this app kinda sucks and I wouldn't recommend using it. Half the time it doesn't even recognize my capture card despite everything being up to date and there being no issues. That said, if you wanted to use this app, you still could and would match the same setup below but substituting the RECentral App for OBS.
Alternatively, what I do now that uses the least amount of resources from my PC is as follows:
In OBS Studio I have a scene with just the capture card with preview disabled:
In advanced audio properties, I have the Audio Monitoring set to Monitor and Output:
*Note: If you just want to hear the source and nothing else, you could set to Monitor Only and skip the rest.
In System Settings I have output device set to a virtual cable from Voicemeeter. I believe you need to pay Voicemeeter for this, but I got it a long time ago and don't know if that's changed.
Finally, I have the Virtual Cable selected as a source in Voicemeeter:
At this point, any app you want to send the audio to should recognize the Virtual Cable as an audio source, and that Virtual Cable should be playing back the audio from your capture card. Even though this use case doesn't really make sense since the capture card source is already playing the audio, as an example you could now add the Virtual Cable as an "Audio Input Capture" source in OBS:
Or for a better example that I typically use, you can use the capture card as the device for a discord stream with the Virtual Cable as the audio device:
As for why the card doesn't work like we want it to, I got the below response from Avermedia support:
Though it would be nice, I see their point as it's a pretty niche use case (I had the capture card for ~2 years and never knew I wanted it until recently.
