Hey guys! My problem is this: Easy said: Want to use Headphones to have great sound while streaming and also game sound in stream on twitch!
I got a PS4 pro and want to stream via Xsplit and Elgato game capture HD but as soon as I try to use headphones it wont do any game sound in stream,microfone is fine. I tried a Headset in the PS4 controller and the Sony USB headset for the PS4 just now.My TV doesnt have bluetooth,so thats not a thing I could do. It only has a optical Audio out but I think as soon as I change the output to that it wont work too. Problem is even when I hear the sound in the Elgato Software and Xsplit output it is gone in the Twitch live stream,which is very weird to me. has someone had the same issue or does know a sollution. sounds complicated so if there are questions please ask. the problem is on my mind for quite some time and I dont know how I can fix it.It's like the sound is getting lost somewhere!
Don't plug your headphones into your PS4. The sound only comes from your headphones. And instead of doing all that, you can just use PS4's livestream feature which is a very easy thing to do.
but what can I do if I actually want to use headphones? wait for a bluetooth TV? And I like using Xsplit to use twitch alerts and such to customize my stream ;) Problem also is as soon as I change Audio output on my TV from speakers to optical audio out for the headphones,which you have to do, the sound is gone. I would just like to get the problem. maybe someone can solve it to help me use headphones ^^
I could do that but would have a 2 second audio delay from the TV because of the Elgato,meaning sound would be 2 seconds behind on my headphones,so I'd rather play with lower TV volume instead.
Yeah that’s a known Elgato problem that it has capture delay if it’s a USB cap card.
Unfortunately there isn’t a good way around it that I know of aside from taking your headphones off and using your TV with low sound so it won’t be picked up by your mic. There might be ways to split the audio channels coming out of the PS4 as sending it to multiple outputs (headphones and XSplit) but I don’t know much about advanced audio configurations like that.
The long term and more expensive solution is to get an internal PCI Elgato which will have no/much less capture delay.
I'm not sure about XSplit, but in OBS you can put a limiter on your mic so it only picks up sounds that are so loud, basically. I use that to keep general noises from getting picked up by the mic. Didn't consider the delay... that is... unfortunate.
yeah I've been thinking about just getting an isolator for the mic and test around sensitivity of it and putting it very near my face so I can turn up the TV volume. I guess it's the easy way around it. too bad about the headset though,of course it makes the sound way more enjoyable :)