Trying to stream a webinar via Teams virtual camera - no audio on Windows 10

[joeblowfish]

We have a remote user in another country who cannot access a live training stream we watch in our office, so we are trying to share it via Teams on Win 10.
I have used the virtual camera in Teams to share the video stream we watch just fine, but I cannot figure out how to redirect the audio we hear on this PC from the webinar to Teams.
I bought the A/B Virtual Audio Cables and have tried various suggestions on forums with no luck.
I thought our setup was simple:

1. We play a live webinar on our Windows 10 machine.
2. We use the OBS virtual camera to share the webinar video.
3. Somehow, I configure OBS to capture what we hear on our PC and send that through Teams as the audio we hear from the webinar.

#3 just isn't working.

How do I send the audio from our webinar stream to the VB-Cable Input and then push that audio into Teams along with the video?

Part of me hopes this is a technical problem or broken driver, but I wonder if my brain isn't broken here.

Thanks!

 

[joeblowfish]

Edit: Actually, I found a breakthrough: I had to set the Virtual cable input/out devices in WINDOWS sound settings. Nothing else would work.

This then required "listen to this device" on the virtual cable device and outputting it to my Windows speaker, since the host PC was now silent due to the above settings.

This isn't ideal and is a pain to configure, but I suppose it's cheaper than $35/m for Parsec Teams.

 

[koala]

You missed a small but important property of the common virtual audio devices: the come in pairs. You have one audio device as playback and his brother with the same name as recording audio device. Both are connected internally. So if you output some audio to a playback virtual audio device, it is directly fed into the corresponding (same name) recording audio device, and this audio device can be configured as mic in any software, so everything you send to the playback audio device is sent as mic to the application. Essentially, it converts a playback audio device into a recording audio device, so it can be used as mic.

Using the "listen to that device" option is a valid option, however you can also send the audio you want to send to Teams directly to the virtual audio device.