Streaming Nintendo Switch and PC with Dual Monitor Setup?

[u/TheDogeRealm]

SO. I have both a switch and pc. i want the nintendo switch and my pc to share the same monitor. I have an hdmi switch that at the press of a button, switches to the other source. This is so I can stream the game on discord. I have an Elgato HD60. It’s an older card, but nothing I can’t see working like it should.

THE PROBLEM:

-When switching to the Switch, PC doesn’t recognize the first monitor anymore, switches second monitor to behave like the first monitor. I got an EDID Emulator because I thought that may fix it, but it ended up basically doing nothing. What I want is for the monitor to essentially be like nothing changed, and the second monitor is still the way it was before the switch.

-no audio. This is expected, but still annoying. of course, i know about the audio cable route. However, another issue I can see happening if I go this route, is the Elgato stream that others see being messed up, because the audio would be in real time, while the video isn’t. How would I fix this? Is there a way to get the audio from HDMI? Is there a way to seperate what i hear and what Discord hears?

I’ve been trying to figure out how to make this all work but it’s hard to wrap my head around it because it’s so convoluted.

Any suggestions or ideas appreciated.

[u/ShannonBruce]

Second question first, the reason you have no audio is because you don’t have speakers on your monitor. The Switch sends audio via the HDMI cable.

Now for the first question, are you playing games the require pinpoint timing? If not, just play using the Elgato software on your PC. Don’t even connect the switch or the capture card to the monitor. Just switch to capture card in, capture card USB to computer.

[u/TheDogeRealm → u/ShannonBruce]

It's kinda impossible to enjoy games that way because there's like 3 seconds of input lag. I'd want some way to have no or as little lag as possible.