CV1 Headphone question

[Tony Spaniels]

Ive very luckily just received my CV1, and I want to use my headphones playing Elite instead of the oculus ones , as decent as they are. Ive removed them but for some reason there's no audio coming through my normal headphones, which are working I checked.

Is there an setting somewhere that Ive missed? Or does the audio normally play through both cv1 headphones and your normal headphones that you've hooked up?

 

[xondk]

Ive very luckily just received my CV1, and I want to use my headphones playing Elite instead of the oculus ones , as decent as they are. Ive removed them but for some reason there's no audio coming through my normal headphones, which are working I checked.

Is there an setting somewhere that Ive missed? Or does the audio normally play through both cv1 headphones and your normal headphones that you've hooked up?

Rift doesn't have a passthrough like the vive does, so unsure, but according to this: https://forums.oculus.com/community/discussion/32721/how-do-i-use-my-own-headphones-with-rift-solved

I disabled the Rift headphones in Windows Sound settings and now Rift apps correctly output to my own headphones.

 

[Soda Popinski]

Check the sound settings in your control panel, and make sure your other headphones are set as default. The Tested guys mentioned you can't mirror audio like on the Vive, so you have to pick either or.

 

[ZeeWolf]

The CV1 audio is output through the USB, lots of folk on the Oculus forums thought is was HDMI, but it isn't because for whatever reason the HDMI port on my GTX 970 stopped working, so I fished out the HDMI-DVI adapter that was packaged with my DK1 and plugged my new rift straight into the DVI with the pass-through and to my surprise everything was detected and set-up flawlessly. The head-phones work just fine.

So I suspect even though you removed the headphones the rift audio is still connected, if you go into your playback devices (on Windows 10 right click on the speaker icon) you should see the rift audio is in the list and I suspect it'll be setting itself up as your default playback device. Just find your regular speakers/sound device in the list and set it as the default.

 

[Tony Spaniels]

Thanks all for the replies. After a little more investigating that perhaps I should have already done before creating this thread, I found out my problem was indeed a straight forward setting switch. Its in settings/devices/rift headset/ and adjusting the vr audio output setting to windows default.

https://support.oculus.com/help/oculus/948087951934283?sr=1&query=audio%20problem&sid=0HyPCXNRaD0b6Py3w

Lads, this cv1 is fantastic i havent even tried elite yet Im building up to it, but playing lucky's tail has at times been an almost hallucinogenic experience

 

[ZeeWolf]

Yeah lucky's tail is sort of like putting your head into a miniature theme park or a box of smarties.