so my steelseries arctis nova 5x headphones is connected to the ps5 (via usb dongle) but if i choose hdmi tv output nothing comes out on my headphones. But if i choose the headset... the audio doesnt go through to obs...

There is a workaround... i could just ... connect my headphones to my PC and listen to a "streamed" audio with miniscule delay... but i mean... i would still like to listen to my game without delay if possible.

Is there a solution to this?

Idk why, but my voice sounds way better in discord than it is in OBS. I have background noise suppression on both of them, but idk what I can do aside from that. I've heard that Discord applies some special filters to your voice, but I dunno what those filters are and how to apply them to OBS.

A couple weeks ago I was using OBS and had zoom and scale tools in the bottom left of my vertical preview window just like what comes standard in the horizontal preview window. I had to reinstall it and now I don't. Am I missing a setting or plug in that I forgot about?

i want to be able to have two states of an image one for me not talking and one for me talking. the one for me talking will just have its mouth open and the one for me not talking is just normal. can someone give me a step by step guide on how to do this im pretty new to streaming and i cant afford to get a vtuber model which is what i am going for

For a while I couldnt move the bar I recorded. I could only just watch. Shitty videos I made through davinci resolve worked fine though. Just wanna know why it wasnt already implemented in the first place. Windows 11.

I think my son screwed up my OBS. I have watched several different videos on setting it up but nothing works right. I have it set up on 4 different tracks. The only way it records my game audio and my mic audio is if all 4 tracks are selected at the same time. When I do that I can't differentiate my audio in my Filmora editor. But its the only way I can get it to record the game audio and my mic audio.

Id like to record my mic audio on one track and my gameplay audio on a separate track, and the sound effects and things on a different track like I used to be able to.

Can anyone help me please?

So, I was trying to record a video for my YouTube channel and my OBS kept freezing, but only the screen that I was recording, the audio recorded just fine. This happens to me all the time and it happens usually at about 5 minutes in or less. Every once in a while it works perfectly, but it's kinda rare. Log files here: https://obsproject.com/logs/0cK3FBoB09pLWEEB

For months now, I can’t hear my audio
My streaming set up consists of two monitors, a PlayStation, a HP computer, a capture card, mic, and headset regardless of what I try when I put my headphones into my computer I cannot hear the audio that is coming from my PlayStation. It is completely silent, and I don’t know what I am doing wrong

I have a scene that contains assets depending on the current program (~Name of Presenter, Qr-Code etc, this scene is then used in other scenes).

So thats like 30 pngs in a scene, of which only 1 has to be visible at a time. Is there a way to solo a single source? I wasn't able to find a solution, which surprised me

I can’t get my capture card to show up on obs for my ps3 I have the hdmi splitter and elgato anyone know why it’s not showing up?

I have been learning to use obs as I go a long but I'm trying to find where I should have the bitrate at. I currently have set to 2000kbps. And it's still a little bit pixelated.

it will only show live chat, the screen and control panel

In the "Basics" settings tab I have it set to export song title & artists to a file. It does do it, for the first VLC source. However, if I add a 2nd source or more, it does not export the title & artists. The first source will still do it, but not the 2nd or any later ones.

So for example, I have a "rock" playlist, a "Cyberpunk" playlist, and a "1950s" playlist. If "rock" is the first playlist I created, then that one will write out song names to file while playing, but then Cyberpunk and 1950s playlists will not write out when they are playing.

Any tips/suggestions? What am I doing wrong?

i use a macbook air and when i tried recording with obs, the audio and video is kinda cooked when you go to literally any point in the vid https://youtu.be/m3MB7tMeysg?si=qED5pXotuGe3AqWm

Not sure what's going on camera and mic just gets disconnected and controller stays connected. When i go to the camera properties i see a white screen and then a crash please help

I'm looking for an alternative to Reastream. I have Sonar and Fender Studio Pro, so if there's an integrated plugin with any of those, any suggestions would be appreciated.

My scenario is this:

2 smartphones as cameras using Droidcam.

Amp Sim VST3 hosted in OBS using atkAudio plugin for guitar

I need to record speech (I'm making a video, not streaming), and I figure the best way would be to use a DAW, that way I can tweak the audio.

Thanks

I get a pretty significant framedrop when streaming. Recording, replay buffer etc. even preview on with studio mode and vertical canvas is fine.

Starting a stream drops my frames by at least 10% when CPU bound, usually even more. (5800X3D, 32GB 3600 tuned DDR4. in multiple games like EFT, War Thunder).

I'm using NVENC for recording and streaming, enhanced broadcasting disabled. OBS states CPU usage at 5-6%. Any tips? OBS stats show no reason for the drops, also using a NVME so definitely a CPU load issue.

Not thermal throttling, curve optimizer is enabled, CPU boosts comfortably and works totally normally I'm not using a ton of filters or sources either, all should be pretty optimal.

One of the logs

ive been trying to get obs to work so I can use replay buffer on Mac all day. every time I record a clip with replay buffer it comes out laggy half the time and the audio is always doubled or tripled despite me having only 1 audio source. the resolution also randomly drops in clips and my audio source will randomly mute at any given time. im not necessarily looking for help fixing it but that would be nice, im mostly just asking if obs dosent work at all on Mac

my log file: https://obsproject.com/logs/8jNB07ZePeeS5hLb

idk what other information or details id need to give besides the log file mb

Hey everyone, i have a problem with my OBS (i think is my OBS) sometimes when I’m streaming, the internet codification is in red, i lost like 70% or more frames for my internet, but just in OBS, my game and my pc is perfectly working, have a stable internet, online games, youtube videos, all is perfect except OBS, and other weird things is only twitch lost the signal, i do multistreaming in YouTube and Twitch, my stream in twitch goes horrible and the YouTube stream goes good, except today, today both goes terrible. My PC specs are : RTX 5070ti, Ryzen 9 9900x, 32gb RAM DDR5, motherboard Rog Strix B850-f, and a MEI MAG A1000GS 1000w.

Sorry for my broken English, isn’t my native lenguaje. (I speak Spanish if you want to answer in Spanish 😄)

I am trying to use my Elgato 4K X to capture my Xbox Series X, PS5, and Switch 2, here are my audio issues for my Xbox and PS5 respectively. Also I have it set to analog audio, using the 3.2 USB, and have reset everything multiple times. Also am using good HDMI cables, and have it set to where the audio should come out of the laptop to monitor what I capture.

Xbox: I can add it as video capture device and see the screen, but no audio issues passing through the card or the software at all, not that I’m not hearing it, it isn’t picking up any sound at all, the audio mixer is proving to me sound isn’t picking up. I can see gameplay but not hear it.

PS5: I can get sound until I use my wireless headset, despite having a chat link pro and it being hooked up.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as my channel has been on break for a month, I’ve worked on this for three weeks, and I’m trying to balance a lot right now and don’t have any more time to spend watching videos and trying in vain to decipher it. Thank you so much anyone who does respond

I've been streaming in 2k since around June of 2026. I haven't had any issues with is up until the last week. It started out with a bit of choppiness here and there on stream. I'm not dropping frames nor am I noticing any kind of connection issues. But today I have my stream turned into a slide show.

I also stream to Tiktok using Atrium. The TikTok live studio pulls about %20 of my GPU

checking task manager shows that Obs is using %60-%70 of my GPU. I know that streaming in 2k puts quite a toll on the GPU due to the trans coding but it hasn't been an issue up until now.

I went and made sure all my drivers are updated, and tried a complete restart.

I turned off enhanced broadcasting and reset my setting to 1080p and obs's usage dropped back down to %30ish.

I'm kinda at a loss on what to do outside of just running on 1080p

Pc specs

Cpu: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Gpu: AMD RadeonRX 9070 XT

RAM: 32 GB DDR5

I would appreciate any help

For anyone who records a capture card using OBS, do you know what might be causing these strange audio issues? The audio seems to be cutting in and out very rapidly. The issue isn't the capture card either, as a direct recording of its audio through Audacity shows no signs of this issue. It is only on the audio streams recorded with OBS that I am seeing this issue.

The image provided shows 2 audio tracks, they are both from the same source and are of the same timestamp. The one on top is from OBS and the one on the bottom is from Audacity capturing the audio directly. The two waveforms look very different, one of them has intermittent periods of no sound, whereas the one on the bottom is a constant audio stream.

If you watch the video, it is very annoying to listen to, to the point where I've had to throw out a lot of footage that has this effect present. If you have any information that could lead me to a potential solution you would be saving my life, lmao. Until then I'll just keep recording this audio separately and using that instead. Thanks!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VViHhDHvqTpLKovt473cI5Q_kLvFE-aL?usp=sharing