[wdmaudiodev] Re: Naming audio devices dynamically in Vista

  • From: Eugene Muzychenko <emuzychenko@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Eugene Gavrilov <wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:23:13 +0700

Hello Eugene,

> Generating a new GUID and new Media Category on each driver start-up
> is a bad idea...

It is a VERY bad idea but however it is the only way :(

> (Also, I read somewhere these categories might be cached and the
> changes won't work until reboot)

Try to stop and restart WdmAudio and AudioEndpointBuilder services
after name changing. If new names will be shown properly after service
restart, you can trigger endpoint rebuilding by disabling and enabling
an appropriate wave/topology interface.

Regards,
Eugene

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