This is a small tutorial for everybody who wants to broadcast some stuff (music etc.) from his computer to Teamspeak. Remember to change everything back after your broadcast!
Index
Disable all
sounds from your computer
Muting the other
Teamspeak speakers
Configuring the sound
settings
Setting up
Teamspeak for broadcasting
The first thing you should do is disabling any sound that your computer might accidentially produce during the broadcast. Examples are the typical Windows "dings" or MSN/ICQ sounds. I can't write how to do so for every single program out there, but I think, you can find out yourself how to do so. However, it is also very important to disable all types of Teamspeak sounds. In this tutorial I'll show how to disable these sounds.
The first thing you have to do is starting Teamspeak. Now click Settings->Options.
The following dialog will show up. (It is possible that other Input and/or Output Devices show up as seen in this screenshot, but that doesn't matter at all.)
Now click on Sound Notifications.
You'll have to click on Disable all sounds there.
After doing so, you can close the dialog by clicking on OK. Now you won't hear the "Player joined" etc. sounds any more - but they also won't be broadcasted in the future.
The next thing to do is muting all other sounds that Teamspeak produces.This consists of the voices of the other people who are online on Teamspeak. If we didn't change this, you would be able to hear everybody twice - the first time transmitted by his own client, the second time by the broadcaster. This can either be very annoying or even cause a feedback.
Go to Settings->Sound Input/Output Settings.
Move the Output volume slider to the left side.
After clicking Close, you won't hear the other players even though their lights show up.
(Important information: As I'm using the German version of Windows XP with English sound drivers, the languages of the captions you can see on the screen shots are totally mixed up. However, the English expressions are used in the text and you should be able to follow the steps anyway.)
Open the Volume Control program by double-clicking on the small speaker at the right part of your task bar or by using the Run command of the start menu. Click Start->Run and enter sndvol32. After clicking the OK button, the Volume Control window should open. It might not look exactly like this, but that doesn't really matter.
(Note: The Mute checkbox below the volume control of the microphone should be ticked at this point. Otherwise you would hear yourself all the time.)
Now click Options->Properties.
A properties dialog should open.
Click on Recording there. (If you have an USB headset, select your main mixer!)
Now the list at the bottom of the dialog should change a little bit. Make sure that the checkbox "What you hear" or "Stereo Mix" is ticked. (The names can differ. If you don't find a checkbox like this, it might be possible that your sound drivers don't support this type of broadcasting. Maybe you should look for new drivers then.)
After doing so, click OK. The Volume
Control window should change into Recording Control.
Tick the Select box for "What you hear" or "Stero Mix" here and move the volume controller to the center part of the scala. If you notice later that this setting produces a sound signal that is either too loud or too quiet, you will have to adjust it later.
You should do these steps directly before your broadcasting and before you've made sure that everything else is set up correctly. Also don't forget to set everything back after the broadcast!
Go to Settings->Sound Input/Output Settings again.
In this dialog, you'll have to activate the "voice activation" mode.
After the radio button is ticked, move the voice activation level slider to the left side.
After you've clicked Close you can directly start broadcasting on Teamspeak simply by playing your songs or whatever you want to play. Just don't forget to change everything back after broadcasting!
I hope, this tutorial was helpful for you. Have fun with Teamspeak!
Greetings
The.Modificator (ICQ 178296390, urulive@public-files.de)