Question / Help No PS4 Audio on OBS with Magewell Capture Card

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DerrickLewis

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PLS HELP. I recently bought a Magewell capture card and it works great. The only problem I am having is that I am not getting PS4 Audio through to my stream (my voice, gameplay, party chat, etc.). I really need to solve this issue before I can continue streaming as I have invested so much money already.

My setup:
  • PS4 connected to Magewell (Input)
  • Tv connected to Magewell (Output)
  • Magewell connected to PC (USB)
  • OBS Software
  • Turtle Beach Stealth 600 connected to PS4 via USB

I do not want to change my setup or have my audio come through my TV.
 
Narcogen

Narcogen

Active Member
If you're getting game audio from the console into the Magewell, then it's working.

I'm not familiar with the PS4, but on the Xbox side, you configure the console to send party audio to the HDMI output, and then it gets captured along with everything else. The Xbox also has a "mic monitoring" setting that echoes your own voice back to you, so if the PS4 has similar settings, then enacting them would give you everything you want. Unfortunately I'm not able to say if they exist or what they are.

If there is no such setting in the console, there's not really anything you can do within OBS to get it; you'd need an addiitonal physical connection to get headset and headphone audio into the PC. Again, on the Xbox controller there is a headset (TRRS) connection, and I can use this both to get party audio by connecting it to a PC's audio input jack.

Something like this:


I also use this to get audio from an XLR microphone connected to my PC into my console to use for chat input. If you're not doing that, you'd just use one side of the splitter and leave the other to connect your headset to the console.
 
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DerrickLewis

New Member
Narcogen said:
If you're getting game audio from the console into the Magewell, then it's working.

I'm not familiar with the PS4, but on the Xbox side, you configure the console to send party audio to the HDMI output, and then it gets captured along with everything else. The Xbox also has a "mic monitoring" setting that echoes your own voice back to you, so if the PS4 has similar settings, then enacting them would give you everything you want. Unfortunately I'm not able to say if they exist or what they are.

If there is no such setting in the console, there's not really anything you can do within OBS to get it; you'd need an addiitonal physical connection to get headset and headphone audio into the PC. Again, on the Xbox controller there is a headset (TRRS) connection, and I can use this both to get party audio by connecting it to a PC's audio input jack.

Something like this:


I also use this to get audio from an XLR microphone connected to my PC into my console to use for chat input. If you're not doing that, you'd just use one side of the splitter and leave the other to connect your headset to the console.
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Right now I am receiving all audio back into my USB Turtlebeach headset which is what I want. If I changed to console output audio, it will send it through my TV speakers which is something I don’t want for gaming purposes and it will also echo to my mic on stream. It would sound very ugly. Thank you very much for your time and reply.
 
Narcogen

Narcogen

Active Member
If you don't send audio from the console to the Magewell, OBS cannot capture it from the Magewell. Your only other method is getting *all* the audio, game and chat, from the headset by splitting it and connecting it to another audio input on your PC, but in this case there is nothing keeping that in sync with your video, so you may get desync or drift.

It is ordinary to have this kind of setup you describe, but in these cases, you would mute the TV to prevent audio from bleeding into your microphone.

Not sure if the same option exists on the PS4, but it is possible for the Xbox to have audio sent to both HDMI and the controller/headset simultaneously, so that audio can be heard in the headset, the gameplay can be viewed on the TV (muted) while OBS captures synchronous audio and video from the capture device.
 
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DerrickLewis

New Member
Narcogen said:
If you don't send audio from the console to the Magewell, OBS cannot capture it from the Magewell. Your only other method is getting *all* the audio, game and chat, from the headset by splitting it and connecting it to another audio input on your PC, but in this case there is nothing keeping that in sync with your video, so you may get desync or drift.

It is ordinary to have this kind of setup you describe, but in these cases, you would mute the TV to prevent audio from bleeding into your microphone.

Not sure if the same option exists on the PS4, but it is possible for the Xbox to have audio sent to both HDMI and the controller/headset simultaneously, so that audio can be heard in the headset, the gameplay can be viewed on the TV (muted) while OBS captures synchronous audio and video from the capture device.
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Let's assume I send TV audio to OBS and mute my TV... how would I be able to hear the game I am playing or any type of chat in real time? Other than watching/listening to my stream and praying I don't have any type of delay?
 
Narcogen

Narcogen

Active Member
You should have headphones, either connected to a controller, or to your PC, with audio sent to it upstream of OBS, directly from the capture card. You shouldn't be using TV speakers in the same room with a live microphone anyway.
 
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Darkside Dubs

New Member
I am having this similiar issue. I was able to make the changes from just "headset" to "TV and Headset" and that started sending the game chat to my stream. Both my parties and my own. However, now my chat mixer and game volume is all on one scroll wheel on my headset. It is a turtlebeach 600 gen 2 headset. I'm using a magewell gen 2 capture device with my xbox one x to my pc.

Is there a way to separate the volume again and still make this work? I don't mind spending a little bit of money to make it work but I am not trying to put up a couple hundred or anything like that. Any ideas?
 
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