Question / Help Sending desktop audio to speakers

[Shpe3]

Is “outputted”(as in: not “monitored”) audio only listenable via stream or playing back a recording? Is there some way to have the “outputted” audio play live from a connected audio device? I get that I can set something to be monitored to be able to hear it, but my setup is a little weird.

I’m “projecting” via HDMI to a TV in an adjoining room. I’d like my mic audio to play live out of the connected tv’s speakers. But I can only get that to work if I change my monitoring device to be my HDMI audio out and assign my mic to be monitored. However, I’m hoping there’s a way to get the outputted audio to play at the TV instead of the monitored audio so that I can still have monitoring for myself!

Does this sound doable or is the software not able to do it?

 

[Narcogen]

OBS has multiple ways of sending output-- streaming, recording to a file, sending output to a BlackMagic device. Any of those methods can include any one or more arbitrary audio channels that you can include in a scene.

The problem is that what you're doing isn't really output, at least not the way OBS thinks about output. You're sending a preview, which is just video, over your HDMI port.

The audio equivalent for that is monitoring.

What you probably want is to install Voicemeeter, which will give you more flexibility in routing audio. It should let you specify a virtual device to be used by OBS for monitoring, and then have Voicemeeter send that signal to two different hardware outputs-- HDMI and your headphones.

https://www.vb-audio.com/Voicemeeter/banana.htm