HotelCharliHill
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Hey guys and gals, thanks in advance for any help. I'm sure someone out there has set up their PC to capture game chats, as well as people out there having set up to capture console chats, so I imagine help isn't far away :)
I've been doing some research and trying different things and no love. Here's what I'd love to accomplish, and I have a dedicated streaming PC with OBS on it with an avermedia Live Gamer HD2 GC570 (onboard card) with HDMI passthrough:
=Capture incoming gamechat from PC, and consoles (Xbox One and PS4) as well as party chats or discord (or teamspeak, etc if I'm asked to join an alternative)
=Omit MY outgoing speech from being captured as I'm already being captured through a USB cardioid mic which sounds quite good.
=IF POSSIBLE (and I know some people have accomplished this), set up my PC discord as well as gamechat so that MY outgoing speech comes from the USB cardiod mic rather than a headset mic (while I still hear incoming gamechat/discord chat through the headset)
I've done a few different tests to try and record and hear audio with the headset and both the consoles and the gaming PC and even the streaming PC;
- with the headset plugged directly into the console controller, I could hear and transmit audio perfectly. With it plugged into the pink mic port on the gaming PC, it did record, but it was quite LOW and quiet. I however could not hear audio obviously. Plugged in the green line out port and could no longer record my voice, but I could hear the PC audio but again, it was quite low.
- I have a turtlebeach Recon Chat headset (https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Produ...GqU9nZaNgWaCSXE4NZeEyQwrkaBd5yYgaAsPjEALw_wcB) I bought these ones because I play with 5.1 audio in my living room so I wanted something similar to the Xbox default headset which wouldn't impede on the sound.
Problem apparently is that the headset requires a power source such as a controller to drive the signal back and forth. Although I tried the headset directly connected to both the gaming PC and the "line in" of the capture card in the streaming PC (which had zero effect), it was quiet. But once I connected the headset to the PC through a long extension cable (which goes through the wall from where the PC's are to my living room, there was no sound at all in either direction). Likewise, once I plugged the headset into the console controllers via an extension cable and some CTIA (4-post) splitter cables etc (to split the audio signals), it was not being received by the capture card at all, nor showing any indication on the desktop in the windows audio settings.
It seems I need 4-post PC splitter cable to plug into the pink and green audio ports in the gaming PC, then an extension cable that can transmit the signal to the headset plus some sort of 4-post amplifier to boost the signal between the PC and the extension line or perhaps even each line of the splitter? And yes, the turtle beach recon headset is naturally CTIA (4-post).
When it comes to the console controllers, i'm not sure if it's simply that the audio signal of teammates didn't have the power to get from the controller the 10ft to the line in of the capture device, OR if the signal COULDN'T be transmitted due to the extension line being normal stereo and not CTIA (sort of doubt that because I'm only intending to send one signal, it could be mono, but maybe the posts don't line up properly). Also seems like I'd need a means to boost signal from controller to the streaming PC.
This is all very difficult. What has everyone else done to get this to work? If I could get this to work on the controller, it would transmit both game and party chats.
I've tested this in OBS with both audio source input and output with the avermedia live gamer hd2 digital audio interface, and in both input and output ports on the capture card, and nothing has shown a green indicator on the sound mixer of OBS meaning no signal detected.
Another problem is how to get the discord from the gaming PC TO the streaming PC for it to be captured. I'm thinking I would need to use some sort of virtual cable to send it from one PC to the other?
Another sad reality is that PC games for some reason share their game audio channel with the gamechat channel, rather than split it like console (I guess they just assume everyone's going to play with a surround headset and have the audio coming in together anyway, unlike with a console where sound generally comes through the TV or through a surround speaker system). How does one capture incoming game chat without an annoying dual game audio being overpowering?
Anyone figure out how to set up discord to have the chat overlay html working, and then have it captured on a separate PC with OBS detecting that browser source? I spent a little time testing that, but couldn't get it to work... although I couldn't talk into my mic to transmit a sound so my name wasn't popping up to be seen in the overlay perhaps.
Anyone have suggestions?
I've been doing some research and trying different things and no love. Here's what I'd love to accomplish, and I have a dedicated streaming PC with OBS on it with an avermedia Live Gamer HD2 GC570 (onboard card) with HDMI passthrough:
=Capture incoming gamechat from PC, and consoles (Xbox One and PS4) as well as party chats or discord (or teamspeak, etc if I'm asked to join an alternative)
=Omit MY outgoing speech from being captured as I'm already being captured through a USB cardioid mic which sounds quite good.
=IF POSSIBLE (and I know some people have accomplished this), set up my PC discord as well as gamechat so that MY outgoing speech comes from the USB cardiod mic rather than a headset mic (while I still hear incoming gamechat/discord chat through the headset)
I've done a few different tests to try and record and hear audio with the headset and both the consoles and the gaming PC and even the streaming PC;
- with the headset plugged directly into the console controller, I could hear and transmit audio perfectly. With it plugged into the pink mic port on the gaming PC, it did record, but it was quite LOW and quiet. I however could not hear audio obviously. Plugged in the green line out port and could no longer record my voice, but I could hear the PC audio but again, it was quite low.
- I have a turtlebeach Recon Chat headset (https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Produ...GqU9nZaNgWaCSXE4NZeEyQwrkaBd5yYgaAsPjEALw_wcB) I bought these ones because I play with 5.1 audio in my living room so I wanted something similar to the Xbox default headset which wouldn't impede on the sound.
Problem apparently is that the headset requires a power source such as a controller to drive the signal back and forth. Although I tried the headset directly connected to both the gaming PC and the "line in" of the capture card in the streaming PC (which had zero effect), it was quiet. But once I connected the headset to the PC through a long extension cable (which goes through the wall from where the PC's are to my living room, there was no sound at all in either direction). Likewise, once I plugged the headset into the console controllers via an extension cable and some CTIA (4-post) splitter cables etc (to split the audio signals), it was not being received by the capture card at all, nor showing any indication on the desktop in the windows audio settings.
It seems I need 4-post PC splitter cable to plug into the pink and green audio ports in the gaming PC, then an extension cable that can transmit the signal to the headset plus some sort of 4-post amplifier to boost the signal between the PC and the extension line or perhaps even each line of the splitter? And yes, the turtle beach recon headset is naturally CTIA (4-post).
When it comes to the console controllers, i'm not sure if it's simply that the audio signal of teammates didn't have the power to get from the controller the 10ft to the line in of the capture device, OR if the signal COULDN'T be transmitted due to the extension line being normal stereo and not CTIA (sort of doubt that because I'm only intending to send one signal, it could be mono, but maybe the posts don't line up properly). Also seems like I'd need a means to boost signal from controller to the streaming PC.
This is all very difficult. What has everyone else done to get this to work? If I could get this to work on the controller, it would transmit both game and party chats.
I've tested this in OBS with both audio source input and output with the avermedia live gamer hd2 digital audio interface, and in both input and output ports on the capture card, and nothing has shown a green indicator on the sound mixer of OBS meaning no signal detected.
Another problem is how to get the discord from the gaming PC TO the streaming PC for it to be captured. I'm thinking I would need to use some sort of virtual cable to send it from one PC to the other?
Another sad reality is that PC games for some reason share their game audio channel with the gamechat channel, rather than split it like console (I guess they just assume everyone's going to play with a surround headset and have the audio coming in together anyway, unlike with a console where sound generally comes through the TV or through a surround speaker system). How does one capture incoming game chat without an annoying dual game audio being overpowering?
Anyone figure out how to set up discord to have the chat overlay html working, and then have it captured on a separate PC with OBS detecting that browser source? I spent a little time testing that, but couldn't get it to work... although I couldn't talk into my mic to transmit a sound so my name wasn't popping up to be seen in the overlay perhaps.
Anyone have suggestions?