Selecting what audio to stream

[Argyle]

I really do love this new feature, but one issue I had when watching other friends play games with this is an echo from our communication platform.

If it is possible to select what audio inputs to broadcast, that would be great.

Danku.

[Vegetamaker]

I came here for suggest the same. A audio select could be wonderful! (by selecting window or audio outgoing, just like we can change audio volume for every application.

[Legendary Nassa]

Agreed especially when in skype or steam voice chat

[8BitCerberus]

Can't happen. Or more precisely it won't happen. Windows mixes everything into one output and all streaming/recording software has to deal with this. It's not just Steam.

Valve could make Steam act as a virtual audio output, but then every game would need to be updated to allow you to choose another audio output, or you'd have to set Steam as the default audio output and configure every other application to output to another source (like an actual sound card, for instance).

Since that's not "just play a game" simple, don't expect Valve to go through the hassle. For anyone that really cares enough to split their audio output, there's Virtual Audio Cable that will do what you want.

[Nightfox]

Were you using headphones while speaking over chat? If no, then the audio gets picked up twice due to this reason: 1) He talks over software directly goes to broadcast 2) sound over speaker hit mic and creates a small reverb/echo.

Try to chat with headphones. If you watch streams that have team comes on other platforms, you will see that they have headphones on.

[Argyle]

Originally posted by Fox Tango:

Were you using headphones while speaking over chat? If no, then the audio gets picked up twice due to this reason: 1) He talks over software directly goes to broadcast 2) sound over speaker hit mic and creates a small reverb/echo.

Try to chat with headphones. If you watch streams that have team comes on other platforms, you will see that they have headphones on.

We all wear headphones. Steam Broadcast just streams all audio from the computer + Mic, the Mic (and other users in the call) echos through Broadcast because of this.