[wdmaudiodev] Re: Few questions about core Audio APIs in Vista
- From: Frank Yerrace <Frank.Yerrace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 12:35:33 -0800
By the way, Andrew, you mentioned IAudioVolumeLevel so I assume you are using
the DeviceTopology API. If you are using the DeviceTopology API for only main
volume control, you should instead use the EndpointVolume API
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/CoreAud/htm/endpointvolumeapi.asp. This
will relieve your software from having to analyze different hardware solutions
and also take advantage of any software volume control that the audio system
might implement on behalf of the hardware. Also, in general we hope very few
apps manipulate the endpoint volume levels. If they do, this should be directly
tied to UI.
Frank Yerrace
Microsoft Corporation
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-----Original Message-----
From: wdmaudiodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:wdmaudiodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mitchell Rundle
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 9:51 AM
To: wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [wdmaudiodev] Re: Few questions about core Audio APIs in Vista
A1. Sorry, but there is no public method for enumerating all of the audio
sessions.
A2. Most hardware volume controls have .5, 1 or 1.5dB steps. Whether the
hardware returns the actual volume level (e.g. -5dB) or the last value set
(e.g. -5.02dB) depends on the driver, but in general you should expect that the
level will be a multiple of *pfStepping.
Regards,
Mitch Rundle
Microsoft
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-----Original Message-----
From: wdmaudiodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:wdmaudiodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andrew Mindrin
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 11:09 PM
To: wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [wdmaudiodev] Few questions about core Audio APIs in Vista
Hi,
The questions are:
Q1. Enumerating all audio sessions
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I need to enumerate all audio sessions in Vista to take control over
them like Sndvol.exe. Is there a way? I need that to create custom
volume control software.
I've tried to play with WASAPI, but it is possible only to create new
session or to open a sessions of current process created by high-level
API.
Q2. Volume levels in Vista
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I've noticed that some sound drivers for Vista doesn't support precise
volume setup. E.g. with the latest driver from Creative (2.11.0000) when
I set volume by using IAudioVolumeLevel::SetLevel to e.g. -5.02 dB and
then has read it by using IAudioVolumeLevel::GetLevel, the result is -5
dB instead of -5.02 dB. Is this driver bug or volume level in Vista can
be set\read only with a step returned by GetLevelRange method (pfStepping
parameter)? If this is not a bug, how to set\read precise levels?
Many thanks,
Andrew
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