OBS Capture game audio but not recording or living

[zeuxach]

Hello there,

Yesterday I discovered that for a few days now, my OBS app simply hasn't been recording or displaying live audio other than from my microphone, even though it shows that it's listening. Has anyone else experienced something similar? Do you have any idea what might be happening?

Any help is greatly appreciated!


OS: Win11H 24H2
OBS: Latest Version (31.1.1 x64)

I Try

• Restarting Computer
• Reinstall OBS

Program i use to Audio in my PC

• Sonar SteelSeriesGG

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[zeuxach]

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[koala]

You seem to record your audio sources to multiple audio tracks. Media players will play back only 1 audio track at a time, never mix audio tracks. Switch between tracks in your media player to check the other tracks. Youtube will just pick the 1st track of your video and drop the others.

Multiple audio tracks are for postprocessing, so you're able to edit every track separately, then replace them in the video with a single mixed track of your edited tracks. If you don't intend to postprocess this way, create one mixed audio track with OBS in the first place instead of multiple tracks.

 

[zeuxach]

You seem to record your audio sources to multiple audio tracks. Media players will play back only 1 audio track at a time, never mix audio tracks. Switch between tracks in your media player to check the other tracks. Youtube will just pick the 1st track of your video and drop the others.

Multiple audio tracks are for postprocessing, so you're able to edit every track separately, then replace them in the video with a single mixed track of your edited tracks. If you don't intend to postprocess this way, create one mixed audio track with OBS in the first place instead of multiple tracks.

Oh, that's right. I do it this way for video recordings, having the audio separate for better mixing. But should this interfere with live stream?

 

[zeuxach]

I've been thinking about how to use profiles for a while now, and it seems like the perfect time to have separate profiles for recording and live streaming. I think tweaking this will solve my problem.

Thanks for the help, I'll test this on my next live stream

Cheers,
DuH

 

[prgmitchell]

Sure but you don't really need separate profiles, you can set both sources to track 1 and then use tracks 2 and 3 to split them

Multiple Audio Track Recording Guide | OBS

OBS Knowledge Base. Split your audio into multiple tracks for recording

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[zeuxach]

Sure but you don't really need separate profiles, you can set both sources to track 1 and then use tracks 2 and 3 to split them

Multiple Audio Track Recording Guide | OBS

OBS Knowledge Base. Split your audio into multiple tracks for recording

obsproject.com

Oh, that's right. A good solution, actually. I started a test live stream using this method and everything worked perfectly!

Thanks for your help. If you could add "[Solved]" to the title, I'd appreciate it. Unfortunately, due to some typos, I can no longer edit the post.


Cheers,
DuH