Question / Help Properly Splitting Audio Settings

[Lolomeister]

Hey guys,

I've been tinkering around with OBS trying to accomplish something I don't know if is entirely possible or not.

So on my PC
- I have a dedicated sound card used for playing game sounds, music, etc.
- I use my motherboard integrated sound car for strictly my headset for voice chat

As of now, and messing with settings for some time I have not been able to figure out a way for OBS to pick up what other people in voice chat are saying.

For example:

OBS is capturing game sounds, music, and myself talking. However, when other people in my voice chat speak nothing is picked up by OBS.

I would like OBS to capture everything including what others are saying. I've tried everything from messing with windows settings, OBS settings, and mumble to no avail.

Has anybody encountered this or know how to set this up? Or if it is even possible?

Specs:

Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit
OBS v0.625b - 32bit
Mumble 1.2.8

If you need to see any settings from OBS or Windows let me know.

Thanks

(Also, apologies if this is in the wrong forum)

 

[Jack0r]

Hey, in the current OBS this is a bit complicated, but doable.
The multiplatform version will allow more than one desktop audio input right away, but currently we "just" have to do some mixing ourselves. A general guide can be found here: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/include-audio-sources-into-your-stream-or-recording.9/
But I will try to explain, what I think, is the easiest way currently: (You will need Virtual Audio Cable, which is unfortunately not free software, but you can first use the test version to see if it works for you)
One thing though, if you have a working Stereomix available on the mother board soundcard, we could simplify the process, so let me know if that is the case.

Without a Stereomix I would suggest to do it like this:
We will need 3 virtual audio cables, you can configure the number of lines in the Virtual Audio Cable control panel, that comes with the software.
Virtual Audio Cable 1 will be our default Windows playback device, it will receive the game sound and music. In the recording section of the Windows Audio settings you will also find a VAC Line1. Go into its properties, to the "Listen" tab, activate Listen to and in the dropdown select your dedicated Soundcard.
Virtual Audio Cable 2 will be used for the Voice chat, so make sure to select it as the Output/Speaker device in your software. Then again in the recording settings of Windows, go into the properties of Line2 this time, again activate Listen to but this time select your onboard soundcard in the dropdown.
With this done we can now start two "repeater" (a small application that comes with Virtual Audio Cable). Our first repeater will take Line1 was the wave in and send that to Virtual Audio Cable Line 3 (select that as wave out). The second repeater will take Line2 as the wave in and also Virtual Audio Cable Line 3 as the wave out. Finally in OBS we make sure to use VAC Line3 as the desktop audio device.

And the link you will probably also need, to get VAC:
http://software.muzychenko.net/eng/vac.htm

And some links to other guides explaining VAC and how to use it:
http://www.helping-squad.com/how-to...-your-stream-with-or-without-hearing-them-v2/
http://www.helping-squad.com/advanced-vac-virtual-audio-cable-guide/
http://www.helping-squad.com/audio-guides/