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[Teatime]

Does anybody know if it's possible to output the sound parallel through different interfaces (in my case analog and hdmi).
I'm too lazy to switch default devices each time I decide to watch videos on my TV or use my headset for games.

Onboard chipset VIA VT1828S.

[Zarf]

as far as i know, most apps can only output to one device at a time.
your best bet is to use something like Virtual Audio Cable, I used it when I was playing around with removing Vuvuzelas from live football streams, and remember there being an app bundled called Audiorepeater which should do what you want.

[PapaFade]

Heres a question 4 u. Whats is Parallel Audio Output?

[r007]

At first I would have tried to suggest JACK audio connection kit but in the 20 minutes I just fiddled with it I couldn't get it to do what I (or rather, you) wanted. In principle, it should allow arbitrary connections between all of your audio devices... In practice €dit after more fiddling: you seem to need ASIO4All as well... Meh, maybe in a few releases. Seeing as you would have to write a batchfile with the solution above anyway, I think for now you're better off with that/€dit

Other then that, Zarf's solutions seems to be the most promising. (Use Virtual device as main output, repeat to real devices.) Btw: Who is this "Audio Latency" person I keep hearing about?

@papa: T wants to have sound produced on his computer output to two devices simultaneously (HDMI and Soundcard in this case).

[Magathery]

I'm not sure. But do mean something like this?

http://www.octavainc.com/HDMI%20switch%204x2_7_1audio.html


I know the one on the page is a little overkill and bloody expencive, but there will be other versions out there that will do the same thing. The trick tends to be finding where they're hiding. Looks like the key phrase is "Audio Routing".

I just like the line "Smart SCAN TM algorithm intelligently selects the correct input. Approved by Wives and Kids!"

[r007]

That'll do it as well (you can just leave audio on HDMI and separate it again at the box).

Also does that SmartSCAN automagically switch away the naughy stuff if wife or kids enter the room?

[Magathery]

Now that waould be an awesome feature. I'll have to buy one and then get a wife & child and test it.

[Teatime]

I always thought wife and kids were the naughty stuff.

Thanks for the input. Might look into VAC a bit more.
Interestingly enough people claim that under XP it was no problem to have parallel audio streams through the different interfaces. I guess the changes in the audio implementation in Vista have removed this But it's really an unnecessary restriction.

[Zarf]

I always thought wife and kids were the naughty stuff.

Thanks for the input. Might look into VAC a bit more.
Interestingly enough people claim that under XP it was no problem to have parallel audio streams through the different interfaces. I guess the changes in the audio implementation in Vista have removed this But it's really an unnecessary restriction.

I still had VAC installed, so I had a play, had everything up and running in 60 seconds (I have both onboard speakers and a usb headset)
Install VAC to get a "Virtual Audio Cable" device, which you can set as your default sound card in the windows sound control panel. Then run two copies of Audio Repeater, one with input of the VAC, and output of your first soundcard, and the other with input of the VAC and output of the second soundcard.

Win7 will let you control the output volume levels independently on each sound card.

[Chaos]

I'm not sure I'd like a hardware emulator doing this kind of thing. I prefer something more along the lines of a hardware mixer or sound desk.. which is what I have but it's very costly and takes up a lot of space. You can get things that can handle HDMI too, but that's even more expensive

[PapaFade]

Now that waould be an awesome feature. I'll have to buy one and then get a wife & child and test it.

Ur welcome to borrow mine at ur conveinience!

[Magathery]

Excellent! I'd better go and buy some hardware