Something went wrong. Try again later
    Follow

    PlayStation 4

    Platform »

    PlayStation 4 is Sony's fourth home video game console, released on November 15, 2013 in North America, and November 29, 2013 in Europe. On November 10 2016, Sony released the Playstation 4 Pro, an updated version of the console targeting 4K gaming.

    PS4 streaming questions: zoomed-in camera and USB mics.

    Avatar image for saddlebrown
    saddlebrown

    1578

    Forum Posts

    81

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 4

    User Lists: 1

    #1  Edited By saddlebrown

    So I only just started getting into the streaming scene for PS4 last night with some friends, and it's super cool, but here's the two issues I've been running into:

    1) The camera is always zoomed in on the center of the screen when we're streaming. That made sense in my second stream after my friends left and I was playing Outlast, but in the first stream, we were all playing Towerfall together but the camera was automatically so zoomed in you could only see me, despite the fact that there were four other people in the room in view.

    Is that adjustable? Is there a way to get the wide-angle view?

    2) I have Yeti USB mic and I'd love to use it instead of the PS Camera to record the audio. It's cool that it works automatically when I plug it in, but then the game audio would also automatically start feeding through the headphone jack on the mic instead of through the TV. Again, makes sense for streaming like, Outlast by myself or something and it makes sense to have headphones on, but not in a group dynamic. I'd just use an auxilary cable to feed the game audio back into my sound bar or something, but it also plays the audio the mic is picking up, so you'd just get an echo.

    So can I use my Yeti mic without the PS4 automatically feeding the game audio into it even when there's no headphones connected to it?

    Thanks duders.

    Avatar image for somejerk
    SomeJerk

    4077

    Forum Posts

    0

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 0

    From my experience with a USB mixer, you can choose to have all audio, voice-chat audio (including ones own input) or no audio to be fed to it. Watched plenty of people with similar setups of external mics not suffer from echos, though maybe they use less powerful speakers at a lower volume.

    My personal setup:
    PS4 Toslink output > Toslink-RCA conversion > Mixer
    Microphone setup split > USB mixer > PS4 USB
    PS4 USB output of voice > USB mixer > Mixer
    Mixer with or without turning up the channel with PS4 USB output of voice chat > Speakers

    This edit will also create new pages on Giant Bomb for:

    Beware, you are proposing to add brand new pages to the wiki along with your edits. Make sure this is what you intended. This will likely increase the time it takes for your changes to go live.

    Comment and Save

    Until you earn 1000 points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Giant Bomb users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved.