5.1 Audio Support for In-Home Streaming

FAQ

Support for quadraphonic and 5.1 surround audio has been added to the latest Steam Beta Client when streaming from a Windows host. Your Windows host does not need to support 5.1 audio to use this feature; 5.1 audio can be recorded on a machine with 2 speakers and then played back on a client with a 5.1 setup.To enable 5.1 audio support for In-Home Streaming, opt into the Steam Beta Client on your Windows host. If streaming to another computer running Steam, you will also need to opt that client into the Steam Beta Client. If streaming to a Steam Link, support is already included in the latest version of the Link firmware.The Windows Steam Client and Steam Link will attempt to automatically detect the client side speaker configuration and enable 5.1 audio recording when appropriate. You can use the In-Home Streaming settings in the Steam Client and Steam Link to see what speaker configuration Steam detected and manually select a different configuration.Steam currently only records 5.1 audio from processes launched through Steam. Other host system audio will be mixed with audio recorded from the game process as stereo audio.Yes, however you will need to go into the In-Home Streaming settings and select your speaker configuration manually.We are investigating adding support to stream 5.1 audio from both platforms.We are investigating adding 7.1 audio support to both the Steam Client and Steam Link.