When adding Video Capture Device, change your device to whatever you are trying to capture with your capture card.It maybe has a 0.1 second delay on screen, video quality is 1080p HD, and it's cheap! It is a Vivitar Creator Series HDMI to USB Video Capture Card.ġ) Add Video Capture Device and Audio Input Capture to a scene. I'm also using a very cheap Video Capture Card from Walmart for $20 that is amazing. I won't be recording or streaming, this just makes my laptop not have to work as hard trying to optimize for a stream. However you can still use this to get audio from OBS to play back to you while optimizing for streaming and have the playback while streaming. I did this for myself: I clicked on 'Profile' at the top of OBS and 'New', gave the profile a name, and selected the option for just recording, not streaming.

OBS is most compatible with my Video Capture Card so I decided to use OBS as more of a media player rather than a means to live stream. My reasoning for figuring this out was because I wanted to use my laptop as a monitor for Nintendo Switch.

No audio with snagit video capture