Is there any way that I could hear the output of OBS? This would be especially useful when playing a video using the Video Source plugin. Then I could capture the sound and send it into a Hangouts Video Call. OBS has no virtual microphone, right?
I know OBS has no virtual camera but I can share the OBS monitor with the Hangout using other software. Thanks for your help.
No, you would want to capture your audio before OBS, not after. Use that Voicemeeter program and it all becomes easy! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLADO0ZcWBBb7h0BGoMjHEJMiTEnXHAtoV (Links to programs in the Show More area of the videos.)
ReplyDeleteSo monitoring of the OBS output is not possible I guess. I run a video in OBS but I can't hear it.
ReplyDeleteNo - it is not except by viewing the stream. Remember - all that data is encoded into a single stream of 1's and zeros, and then is taken apart again at the other end and turned into video and audio. That's why. Voicemeeter will allow you to monitor whatever you playback on your system and/or send that out to the stream.
ReplyDeleteThat's a lot of software for one computer to handle. So I guess I would need another video player and Voicemeeter.
ReplyDeleteCraig Long
ReplyDeleteVoicemeeter is fairly lightweight. Voicemeeter Pro is more of a challenge CPU-wise, but the same tricks can be done by using his free Virtual Audio Cable as input 2. http://vb-audio.pagesperso-orange.fr/Cable/index.htm I think the older of my Voicemeeter videos shows me using that, as do the ones by QRQcw in the same playlist.
You're right that it is a little odd to have a video player where you cannot monitor the sound, but I believe that video player is actually intended for cool green-screen backgrounds and such.
ReplyDeleteFortunately, it is just as easy to capture a window of a real media player, so you can monitor it.
Eventually coming to multiplatform. 0.14.0 or 0.15.0, possible 0.16.0. I keep getting hit with higher priority things. Don't have enough developers to move as fast as I want unfortunately. Sorry about the trouble.
ReplyDeleteThere is no reason why there shouldn't be an option to hear the videos if I want so I could send the sound to a Hangouts Video Call.
ReplyDeleteA virtual camera would also be nice but I found a way to screenshare the OBS output window.
Craig Long
ReplyDeleteI mean it - you will love Voicemeeter! ;-)
Terry Leigh Britton Hi Terry. Can Voicemeeter grab certain applications from the desktop like only the VLC and then output the VLC to the headphones while everything else is playing through the speakers. I can activate both headphones and speakers using my Smart Audio Multistream. I need to isolate the audio from these applications. I'm feeding music from my desktop back into a mixer to input into a Hangout but I don't want to feed the Hangout output back in.
ReplyDeleteCheck out the Voicemeeter VLC tutorial in this playlist (and the Windows Media Player and Foobar ones if you need more than one media player involved). https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLADO0ZcWBBb7h0BGoMjHEJMiTEnXHAtoV
ReplyDeleteI would use either regular Voicemeeter with a virtual audio cable OR use Banana and its second VAIO Aux input in place of the virtual audio cable.
Recently I had been working with Xsplit because I couldn't hear the videos in OBS using the Video Source plugin. But I just now discovered that I can. You go to the video > properties > "video source settings" and tick "Output audio to device" and select "DirectX audio output" or "wave out audio output". Now I can send the video audio into the Hangout through my mixer.
ReplyDeleteI don't have the CPU to run a Hangout, an OBS live stream, the VLC, and Voicemeeter on my computer so I need to use just a Hangout and the encoder which I had been doing successfully using Xsplit. I will work with OBS again because I like it.
That's awesome news! Admittedly, Voicemeeter does take a CPU hit I'd rather do without, so this is great news for when I need similar functionality. Thanks for the update, Craig!
ReplyDeleteTerry Leigh Britton Sure. And on a particular video you can select the output to go to either speakers or headphones. So video audio could go to the headphones then to my hardware audio mixer and the Hangout output audio can be on the desktop speakers and picked up by OBS.
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