![]() Supposedly, a new USB driver may address some (all?) of my challenges. And such limitation was common across DAWs 3 years ago). our mixing vendor software didn't support Audio out to Windows Audio sub-system with their regular software (USB driver and DAW, except top pay, vs bundled, version. So, audio mixing on OBS PC would be really nice.īUT. disruptive and not quick to run downstairs when truly required to adjust mixer). Why not adjust on mixer? 'cuz mixer (and OBS PC) downstairs in a small closet, and livestream team is upstairs in a choir loft, connected by a 50ft fiber DisplayPort cable and an Active USB3 cable (for keyboard, mouse and DP MST monitors). Now, should I get anywhere near Aaron's level of audio sophistication, then maybe I'll think differently. I have NO need for multi-track audio in OBS. So, my thought is to run a DAW s/w, and do the channel Mute/Fader on that, then send the mixed output to OBS. But, Windows audio (which OBS Studio uses) has severe limitations. And I've love to avoid the extra analog connections and extra analog/digital conversions (in non-ideal spots). I wouldn't mind seeing all of my mixer channels in OBS (all I'm really looking for at this point is the ability to Mute certain mics during certain quiet single speaker moments, when not needed to avoid a faint echo). so sometimes consumer gear is junk, but workstations will behave differently (you get what you pay for. ![]() everything Aaron said, and then there is also the issue of OEM's getting cheap with motherboard chipsets. But some approaches (ASIO) aren't consistent with device enumeration and reboots (I've heard). With FOSS, the onus is on the user to work-around some of this sort of stuff. hence not seeing some things in OBS Studio). And Windows Audio sub-system has all kinds of default limitations, that other software works around (some of it licensed/patented/etc. Which means they can pay for certain licenses/features that aren't practical in FOSS. remember that OBS Studio is Free Open-Source Software (FOSS). you can use same encoding settings on Recording and Streaming to avoid 2X encoding workload if you need to) So yea, I strongly believe in Recording in addition to Streaming (assuming OBS system up to it. separate discussion on having a 'digital usher') and as mentioned, and we've lost Internet before (both back in DSL days, and shortly after AT&T cut us over to fiber), so posted online at start of service (via cellular device) to community saying 'sorry, no livestream today. but regardless, I've not had a recording and downloaded a video from Facebook (or YouTube) and my local recordings are WAY better quality. ![]() Someone else recently said (and I haven't had time to check it) that Facebook for example, saves video in Video library at 720p even if upload/livestream is 1080p ? no idea if that is true or not. Depending on quality, you could use such recordings as a 'fundraiser' (cost deferral) type thing I've taken a local Recording (which is MUCH higher fidelity that a typical content delivery network (CDN = YouTube, FaceBook, etc ) after heavy compression) and given (burn to DVD) to family after baptism, funeral, wedding, etc. The common theme here is Windows' handling of USB, not OBS. OBS has always stayed connected to the loopbacks, but Voicemeeter has occasionally needed me to reconnect one or more of its input channels to their USB wireless mic receivers. To further back up that theory, my one Windows rig uses Voicemeeter Potato, as a mic mixer and several loopbacks, to connect two copies of OBS and a web browser together into one big audio chain. This goes back at least as far as WinXP, because I distinctly remember the same sort of problems there, long before I discovered OBS. Micro$haft Winblows has a long history of trying to be "smart" or "convenient" and making a royal mess of what used to work, or causing problems with what should be a "dumb wire" passthrough. It's not OBS's fault, but Windows' for pulling the rug out from under it. Only when I get used to it and think that I might like something else better, do I go in and mess with it. But all of them continue to work with no further fiddling. Some were plumb easy because they were close to OBS's intended use already, and others were challenging because I was doing something weird with them. I have several rigs on Ubuntu Linux and one on Windows, and all of them are rock-solid once I got them working the first time. Click to expand.Never been a problem for me.
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