GP's statement is quite true with that wording, though expected for any video software; there's no way a tooltip could adequately explain chroma subsampling choices, frame types, or lavfi filtergraph syntax, for example. Regarding comparatively basic usage, the curse of knowledge still applies; it seems simple to do anything when you already know how.
GP, have you configured your audio sources? Your monitor must be a device selected in File > Settings > Audio > Global Audio Devices, and that device must be unmuted in the Audio Mixer pane. If it's a Mac, you need a separate application to capture desktop audio (https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/mac-desktop-audio-usi...).
I connect to the same external monitor everyday in my office and both are restarted daily - my primary laptop as well as the secondary monitor.
Never has the audio been captured in this setup.
But, instead of reporting a bug right away, I suggest posting in one of their support forums [0], in the section of your platform. Let the community know your issue, and someone might solve them.
I'm not a dev. For me, OBS has generally been a confusing hassle to deal with because of its laughably bad UI/UX.
The UI/UX needs simple English with pull downs so that users can form, gasp, simple English sentences which, of course, OBS would interpret as commands. The user would pull down stuff like, "I want to record 10 minutes of low quality video with high quality audio that is not larger than 50 megabytes in size which I will upload to YouTube."
Then OBS would translate that English into "coding magic." This sort of UI/UX is obviously worthwhile, and would be easy to implement.
In the past I have employed some kludgy workarounds which kind of, sort of worked. But I don't really need OBS for much. Therefore, to me, OBS is a typical FOSS "problem child" which I use despite disliking.
A big no. You can start streaming or recording with OBS within twenty minutes of installing it.
I did. Never used it before. I wanted a simple coding set-up where the whole screen is the main source and my webcam feed is in the corner as a box.
> Secondly, whenever I connect an external monitor to my primary laptop, the audio is not recorded.
Doesn't happen with me. Try restarting with the monitor added.
I use a condenser microphone, a Wacom graphics tablet (kudos to them for first class Linuc support), a webcam, an external monitor, and so on.
If you want to start streaming or recording within thirty mimutes of installing a SW, use OBS.