Vista and Sound Filter problems

[terrypye]

I am not sure if any others have a similar issue, but Vista does not recognise valid graphedit filters that work fine in XP. I have a Compro Videomate DVB-T 300 Hybrid card and this works fine in XP, however the Filter "Videomate BDA Audio capture" is not shown in Vista as a sound device even though it is in Graphedit and works in Graphedit. This gives me grief when trying to stream Audio (video works ok) from an external source (eg VCR).

My sound is Analog Devices ADI AD 1986A High definition Audio and whilst using the Vista supplied Asus MOBO sound driver I can redirect Line In, Aux, Microhone etc input to play on the speakers, however in the mixer only Line in and microphone are available, meaning I cannot use AUX input (default for Videomate DBV-T card) for getting sound input to stream. That is where Videomate BDA Audio Capture is important, it effectively does the same thing and allows sound input via Videomate card (via AUX) to be streamed. I must now use LINE in, which prevents me using my soundcard as 5.1 surround sound via the 3 jacks (Line in, Speaker and Microphone in supply 5.1 speakers). Having just bought a set of surround speakers I am miffed, but such is life. After some stuffing around my MOBO is fully Vista Compliant apart from mixer input as per above. Applications that use Graphedit filters also work fine with aquiring the audio in, but VLC does not have the option, just video and audio devices that windows says you can use.

Any suggestions as to how fix or how to inport working graphedit filters for use in VLC as an input audio device, or is this yet another Vista victory over reason.