If "name" means the name that is displayed to the user in the audio
control panel, then look on MSDN at MMDevice API (
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/CoreAud/htm/mmdeviceapi.asp), in
particular IMMDeviceEnumerator::GetDefaultAudioEndpoint (
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/CoreAud/htm/immdeviceenumeratorgetdefaultaudioendpoint.asp),
and Device Properties (
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/CoreAud/htm/deviceproperties.asp)
in particular the property PKEY_Device_FriendlyName.
Frank Yerrace
Microsoft Corporation
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-----Original Message-----
From: wdmaudiodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
wdmaudiodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Dey
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 1:20 PM
To: wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [wdm.8723083][wdmaudiodev] Re: Changing default endpoint and
speaker configuration on Vista
Programmatically is there any way to know the name of the current default
audio on Vista? Thanks!
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Barber" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 12:04 PM
Subject: [wdm.8723083][wdmaudiodev] Re: Changing default endpoint and
speaker
configuration on Vista
> Frank,
>
> Thanks for the clarification. I suspect you'll find that there are
> IHV's who will strongly disagree with MS on this one.
>
> Seems like we've been over this ground before with previous OS releases,
> and seen what IHV's end up doing to compensate. OTOH, I'm may just be
> getting old and cranky.
>
> --jim
>
>
> At 12:01 PM 10/18/2006, Frank Yerrace wrote:
>
>>Clarifying some of the intent of the design around the Vista audio
control
>>panel...
>>
>>Jim Barber said, "...are you saying that MS wants to avoid IHV control
>>panels/GUI's changing those parameters? ...That would result in the bulk
>>of the audio settings being done in the IHV app and then the user being
>>required to go to the MS property pages only to change the default
>>endpoint and/or the output mode."
>>
>>And SP said, "What is the best method to launch the Vista UI to allow
the
>>user to change it?"
>>
>>The idea is that the IHV implement extensions to the Vista audio control
>>panel rather than a separate application. Then there is no need for the
>>user to use the Vista audio control panel for some settings and a
separate
>>IHV application for other settings. Instead, the user launches the Vista
>>audio control panel, uses the standard tabs in that control panel, and
>>also can visit additional IHV-supplied tabs that show the IHV's custom
>>settings.
>>
>>Frank Yerrace
>>Microsoft Corporation
>>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>>rights.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: wdmaudiodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>[mailto:wdmaudiodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of SP
>>Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 10:22 PM
>>To: wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: [wdmaudiodev] Re: Changing default endpoint and speaker
>>configuration on Vista
>>
>>I don't believe its possible anymore in Vista.
>>
>>The reason I asked for a way to launch Vista UI to allow the user to
>>change the default device was to play nice with Vista's policy.
>>
>>I agree it is not ideal to send the user outside an application to get
>>things set up correctly but it would help a lot if we could launch, with
>>the correct context, the various wizards (such as microphone setup) from
>>within our installation/configuration programs. Anyone have
>>recommendations for this?
>>
>>John Rennemeyer wrote, On 10/17/2006 8:55 PM:
>>> Actually, on XP, you could change the default playback device by
>>> modifying
>>> the Sound Mapper registry keys (they don't exist by default, but they
>>> are
>>> created after you open the audio control panel, change a setting, and
>>> then
>>> apply). I'm trying to achieve the same thing in Vista but have been
>>> unsuccessful so far.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> John Rennemeyer
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Share Your Message With the World
>>>
>>> http://www.shareyourmessage.com
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: wdmaudiodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> [mailto:wdmaudiodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
>>> mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 11:45 PM
>>> To: wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [wdmaudiodev] Re: Changing default endpoint and speaker
>>> configuration on Vista
>>>
>>> Well, on XP, applications couldn't change the default playback device,
>>> but
>>> they could change the speaker configuration with DirectSound.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>
>>> From: Larry Osterman <Larry.Osterman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Subj: [wdmaudiodev] Re: Changing default endpoint and speaker
>>> configuration on Vista
>>> Date: Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:37 pm
>>> Size: 5K
>>> To: "wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Btw, this isn't change for Vista - applications weren't allowed to
>>> change
>>> the defaults in XP either.
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: wdmaudiodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> [mailto:wdmaudiodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of SP
>>> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 7:23 PM
>>> To: wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [wdmaudiodev] Re: Changing default endpoint and speaker
>>> configuration on Vista
>>>
>>> I have a somewhat related question.
>>>
>>> Since we are no longer able to automatically change the default audio
>>> devices in Vista. What is the best method to launch the Vista UI to
>>> allow the user to change it?
>>>
>>> Jim Barber wrote, On 10/16/2006 9:04 PM:
>>>
>>>> Hi Hakon,
>>>>
>>>> Just to be clear, are you saying that MS wants to avoid IHV
>>>> control panels/GUI's changing those parameters? Mike wasn't referring
>>>> to 3rd-party recording applications. That would result in the bulk of
>>>> the
>>>> audio settings being done in the IHV app and then the user being
>>>> required
>>>>
>>> to
>>>
>>>> go to the MS property pages only to change the default endpoint
and/or
>>>> the output mode. Is this the intent?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> --jim
>>>>
>>>> At 06:17 PM 10/16/2006, Hakon Strande wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> These are user settings only in Vista. We want to avoid applications
>>>>> fighting over what device is the default and what speaker config it
>>>>> thinks the user likes.
>>>>>
>>>>> The device driver exposes the multi-channel formats the hardware
>>>>> supports and the OS speaker config exposes these to the user
selecting
>>>>> the configuration with the highest number of channels as the
default.
>>>>>
>>>>> The audio endpoints get set to default based on a prioritized list
>>>>> starting with Speakers at the top on the render side:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. Speaker
>>>>> 2. Headphone
>>>>> 3. S/PDIF
>>>>>
>>>>> As an audio device driver you expose the logical devices supported
by
>>>>> your audio device and the user controls what device is actually
used.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hakon Strande
>>>>> PM Integrated, Internal, External, and Wireless Audio Devices
>>>>> MediaTech/DMD/Windows Client/Microsoft
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: wdmaudiodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>> [mailto:wdmaudiodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael R.
>>>>> Preston
>>>>> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 5:09 PM
>>>>> To: wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>> Subject: [wdmaudiodev] Changing default endpoint and speaker
>>>>> configuration on Vista
>>>>>
>>>>> Can anyone (possibly someone from Microsoft) answer this?
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been looking through all the MMDevice-related API
documentation.
>>>>> In IMMDeviceEnumerator, there's a function called
>>>>> GetDefaultAudioEndpoint() to get the default audio endpoint. How
can
>>>>> you programmatically change the default audio endpoint? There's no
>>>>> corresponding SetDefaultAudioEndpoint() function. Similarly, there
>>>>> doesn't seem to be any function to set the endpoint's speaker
>>>>> configuration. I've tried using the high-level DirectSound
interface,
>>>>> or calling Activate on the IMMDevice interface to get a pointer to
>>>>> IDirectSound, but neither of these seems to have any effect. The
call
>>>>> to SetSpeakerConfig() succeeds, but doesn't actually change
anything.
>>>>> Is there any way other than by using the Sound control panel?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Mike Preston
>>>>> --
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