New - and a little bit confused re: audio playback while OBS is active.

[Huzid]

* Initially I thought my audio was not being recorded - and fixed that - maybe - by adding an audio source.
* Discovered that audio had been recorded - but only after I closed OBS

Question: is there a way to listen to a recording with OBS open?

The log-file is just an open of OBS while playing back a recording using "Movies and TV", W10 app for playback. And once OBS opens I can no longer hear Movies and TV (or other audio - as an extra test I also had spotify playing together with Movies and TV.

https://obsproject.com/logs/0OZ4qsj-HLqwfofR

 

[Huzid]

Update: I saw the Analyzer link - and tried to find a way to change the sampling rate to 48k - but there does not seem to be a way to change anything.

I can understand, read expect, microphone input to be muted - to prevent a feedback loop - but once I turn off my bluetooth headset - I do get audio out of the speakers.

* Confused :)

 

[koala]

In general, OBS doesn't generally provide audio "preview".
If you let OBS output its audio, it might happen you create a feedback loop if you let OBS output its audio to the same audio device you're recording.
As default, OBS records Windows desktop audio, and this is the default playback device in Windows, so this would create such a feedback loop.

So OBS is silent as default. You can enable audio monitoring per source. First choose the monitoring device in Settings->Audio->Advanced->Monitoring device. Choose a playback device you don't record with OBS at the same time. You choose some headset if you record Speakers with OBS, or Speakers if you record your headset. If you record both, you cannot use one of these as monitoring device. You need an additional independent speakers or second headset.

Then go to Edit->Advanced Audio properties and in the Audio Monitoring drop down lists choose "Monitor and output" to output the audio of this source not only to your recording but also to the monitoring device.

 

[Huzid]

Thx. Sounds like a plan.

I had found a way to hear my playbacks (while OBS was open) - changing the default playbook device - but had noticed that the mixer now showed no activity for 'desktop'. And in that configuration - I expect a recording would not have any desktop audio.

So, if I record 'Default' I can try the 'non-default headset'. Maybe!

 

[koala]

"Desktop" in the OBS mixer window is the device you select in Settings->Audio->Global Audio Devices->Desktop audio. If you have default here, OBS chooses whatever device is the default Windows playback device. However, OBS checks this only at start. If you change the default playback device in some Windows configuration, OBS isn't following this device. Plugging in/switching on some headset usually change the default Windows playback device as well, so if you plug in your headset after you started OBS, OBS records the previous default audio device (probably speakers) while the current default audio device is your headset.

This is a source of confusion, because many apps switch their output immediately to a new default device - OBS not.