11.2.6 Video Audio devices

[Boswell]

I'm sure I've seen this raised on here before but can't find it.
Running XP with Gigaport AG USB sound card set up as 4 stereo channels (ASIO BASS Driver)
Motherboard audio disabled in Bios
Soundcard works perfectly for normal SFX.

Video is set to Xvid
but the audio devices for the video only shows "Windows Default Device" which ends up as Channels 1&2 of the Gigaport
I thought I should be able to select the Gigaport or USB device instead of Window Default

Also tried on another machine with Win7 and a UA101 sound card, same result

I'm sure it's me being thick

Dump file attached

[Mike Daniell]

No, you're not being thick I found the same issue recently, and I think something must have changed in xVideo. Unfortunately there's no short-term solution.

With the xVideo library I can certainly select different audio outputs (in a test program), but what's missing from xVideo is the enumeration of those devices One would expect the enumeration to be the same as the BASS audio library's DirectSound enumeration, but it's not. I'll see if I can work out how the enumeration works so I can provide a reliable list of outputs.

[BCGTech]

Running 11.3.1 - Any progress to report on this issue? With Directsound and a usb audio device plugged in, the only choice for Video Audio Device is "Windows Default Device".

Bruce

[Mike Daniell]

Yes, there is some progress on this issue, but it's not fully resolved yet. The xVideo function that enumerates the audio output devices consistently crashes so is unusable, and I've had no luck in getting a new xVideo version from the developer. However, what I have worked out is that the device assignments include both 'WaveOut' and 'DirectSound' which means that almost every device or speaker pair is included twice - even more often for the 'default' devices.

So far I haven't been able to reliably generate an equivalent list using Windows API functions, and that's what's holding up this fix.