Two displays and sound cards

[teemupuskala]

I have a system with two screens: TV in living room + 22" flat screen in another room. They are both connected to same PC with two sound cards (Vista, AMD 3500, KN9 mother board, mobo audio and Audigy Sound Blaster card). In living room I use MCE and VLC in the other room.

Audigy sound card is connected to living room 5.1 speakers and Mother board sound card to 2.1 speakers in the other room.

How do I direct VLC sound to play via these 2.1 speakers.

[VLC_help]

Choose DirectX audio output and then from DirectX part choose right soundcard from Output device

[homermaster]

I am trying to do the same thing and no matter the number I try for the output device it will not change from the default device.

I looked under device manager and there is a device number for the second sound card under its properties, general tab. It says "Location: PCI Bus 0, device 31, function 5" and I was hoping that would be the correct device number but when I tried 31 it didn't change anything.

Is this the correct device number and if it is what else am I doing wrong? I manually tried 0-50 along with various combinations of 0, 31, and 5 with no success. I don't want to go through trying sequential numbers for who knows how long to get this to work.

[VLC_help]

It should be something between 0 and 10. There is directx audio tool (I can't remember name of the software) which shows device names and enumeration number. If you know C# and .NET you can quickly create tool by modifying source of
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/audio-vid ... ct=1209263

[homermaster]

I got it .... thank you so much. I was just confused at what the number could be and narrowing it down to 0 through 10 helped so much. The problem I was having was that VLC needs a restart for the settings to become active and I wasn't doing that before. I was just making the changes in preferences and saving them.

My family is going on a road trip and I wanted to be able to have a movie for the kids on one monitor another for my wife on another monitor. Unchecking "Allow only one running instance" under "Advanced" in Preferences lets me have the two instances of VLC open. Open the first and change the audio device, then open the second and voila! What an amazing player.

Long story short: as you are trying numbers make sure you restart VLC each time to avoid my frustration.

As for programming languages I don't know much (just a little playing around with Java) but I want to learn more to be able to contribute to projects like this in the future.