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When using Screen Recorder I must carefully select my audio output device because if I change it during the recording, audio in the recording drops out. This is very annoying as I commonly will start a recording while monitoring it with my headset, then when I need to go do something else, I will switch the audio output device to, say, speakers so I can hear it across the room.
Doing so however causes the audio to drop out. Why is audio input to the Screen Recorder exclusively linked to whatever your starting output audio device is? That's pretty weird.
Any workaround to this other than just not switching audio? Another time I had a specific audio device selected, unchanged during the recording, but the bluetooth device's battery ran out which caused the PC to autoswitch back to speakers. This caused the last half of the recording to have no audio.
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I am trying to record clips from different videos and I can't get any audio to record with the screen recording. All the settings say that my speakers are set to record but nothing is showing up when I look at the file. I thought it was the type of video I was recording so I tried other video sources and it still does the same thing.
I had the same issue (Win 10 PC) but I figured out what the problem was: Screen Recorder gets locked onto whatever the STARTING audio OUTPUT DEVICE is rather than the system audio output. For example, a common issue would be when you start monitoring a video and audio stream with your headphones but then switch the audio output to speakers or even to another device. This will cause the screen recorder, for some reason, to no longer record audio. Switching back to the original audio output devices will reconnect screen recorder to the proper audio in signal.
To get the complete audio output of a video stream you must use the screen recorder with the same audio output device. If you switch devices, even for a second, you will get no audio input for the time period you switched audio output devices.
You can do the experiment yourself. Go to a YouTube video with a musical countdown. Start the recorder at the top, then at a precise time stamp, switch output audio devices, then at another time stame, switch back, and so on until you get bored with the experiment. Then play back the recorded video and you will hear the audio drop out every time you switch to a different audio output device. And sound will continue to be on-and-off according to however you paced your output switching.
It is a highly counterintuitive quirk in the programming. The audio output device seems to determine audio input to the screen recorder.
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