Hi. I am not sure if the USB sound card I have supports an optical in. What would the jack look like? And which mini port would I use? That certainly would make it more responsive, I would imagine. Thanks.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Blouch Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 12:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Need help with VM Fusion and sound devices VMWare is a layer on top of the MacOS so as much as possible they try to recycle what OSX already does. So the Windows network is just piped through whatever your Mac is using and apparently the same thing for sound. My comment was referring to using the built-in optical connector to send 5.1 sound to your receiver rather than some kind of USB thingie. CB On 12/17/13 9:06 AM, Bill Holton wrote: > Hi. > I wound up speaking to someone at VM tech support, who told me it can't be > done with the configuration I have. I am running a boot camp partition, and > have VM grabbing that. Ironically, however, as soon as I finished the call > and rebooted my system, it started working just like I want it to. The USB > sound card still shows disabled in the VM menus. I am told that my sound > isn't using it through Windows, it is sending the sound back to my Mac and > using the Mac's sound. I do not understand this fully, but hey, it's working. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Blouch > Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 5:15 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Need help with VM Fusion and sound devices > > If you are connecting your Mac Mini to a 5.1 surround sound system, can > you just plug it in directly and skip the USB sound card stuff? Simpler > might make it work better. > > CB > > On 12/7/13 2:14 PM, Bill Holton wrote: >> Hi. >> I have installed my Bootcamp partion as a VM machine. I have done this on a >> Mac Mini, and I have not only the Mini's internal speakers, but also a USB >> sound card attached to 5.1 speakers set. My Windows partition only speaks >> in the Mini speaker, the Mac through the USB. If I go to the devices tab >> and enable the USB sound card, this reverses, Windows uses the 5.1 and the >> Mac uses the mini speakers. I suspect there is something I need to do in >> the sharing option, but since this is a USB sound card I am not preciesly >> sure how to go about this. Any help appreciated. >> Bill >> -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
