Reading directly from the registry is not a supported mechanism. The mechanism
by which endpoint property stores are implemented is subject to change. Use the
publically documented APIs like IMMDevice::OpenPropertyStore.
You can find the property keys for documented properties by looking in the
SDK’s headers. None of those three properties are in the headers, so you should
not use them – they are either internal Windows properties (which are subject
to change) or properties defined by the audio driver vendor (which are also
subject to change).
You can do the IMMDevice “connector dance” to go from an endpoint to its
backing “adapter” device. The device instance ID is a property on the adapter
device.
See
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/matthew_van_eerde/2008/06/13/sample-find-out-if-your-default-audio-playback-and-audio-capture-devices-are-on-the-same-hardware
From: Dadi<mailto:dadiku@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 7:24 AM
To: wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [wdmaudiodev] Getting hardware ID from endpoint-ID
Hi,
I need to get the hardware-ID string based on a given audio endpoint-ID string
or from an instance of IMMDevice. The best way is to use
IMMDevice::OpenPropertyStore to read the hardware-ID from some property.
Inspecting the registry (... \MMDevices\Audio\Render\<ep-guid>\Properties\) I
found the following properties containing the information I need but I didn't
find any header containing their PKEY_xxx definitions:
{233164c8-1b2c-4c7d-bc68-b671687a2567},1
{83da6326-97a6-4088-9453-a1923f573b29},3
{b3f8fa53-0004-438e-9003-51a46e139bfc},2
Are these properties defined in some header?
If not defined, is it safe for me to define relevant PKEY and use it?
If I cannot use any of these properties, how do you recommend to read the
hardware ID information of a given endpoint?
Thank you,
Dadi
