Recording Audio with Bluetooth?

ceesgetdegrees

New Member
So I have my OBS setup in a way where when plugging in my wired headphones, it correctly does what I need to do which is to be able to join Zoom, Teams meetings etc (btw there is consent - internal meetings) and record my voice, the participants audio/system audio along with everything I see on my laptop screen.

I have an pair of wireless headphones now and want to transition to using that instead but am having trouble replicating this in a way I want it to. What the problem happens is it eithers does one of the following based on what I set the default audio device under OBS Global Audio settings.

Scenario 1: I press record, I can't hear anyone on the meeting call but CAN playing it back once OBS renders the video.
Scenario 2: I press record, I can hear everything fine but CAN"T playing it back once OBS renders the video so no audio.

I've searched on the forums and people have suggested making sure under Windows 10 Sound settings to go to the tab of "Recording" and ensure the default microphone is not the default and make the bluetooth headset as default device (headset) and having the "Playback" tab have the headset be default communications device (Hands free ag audio) and the Headphones to be the default device.

That didn't work for me until I went into OBS Global Audio Devices and specifically forcing the "Desktop Audio" to be "Headphones" and the Mic/Auxilarly Audio as "Headset (..Hands Free AG Audio)

With that change, I was able to record my zoom call and also hear back the audio on all ends so success! So I wanted to test it also with wired headphones and that doesn't work anymore so I undid the change and viola - wired headphones recording work. Switching it back to make the bluetooth now with the same settings as it worked before now doesn't record it anymore.

Any idea on how to fix this and/or an method to ensure all audio is recording when using bluetooth?


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References for things that I've tried:
 

AaronD

Active Member
So...what works which way? I think all the information is there, but I'm having some trouble de-interlacing it.

Also, what do OBS's meters do in each case? That's a good indicator of where the problem might be - if OBS is even getting it at all.
 
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