Hi All, I recently tried playing with Windows Vista and thought of asking some audio related questions as I am still in the midst of exploring. I got to say that, if vista matures a little further as time progresses, its worthwhile the upgrade just for the audio part. 1 very big bonus is that we could now control indivisual volume controls through the mixer. For example, if we are listening to real player streams, on xp systems, when u tune down the volume, it utilise the wav volume and this would affect our screen readers too. However, on vista, u could indivisually set the current active application's volume level. In this case, u could have different levels for your screen reader and real player. This is especially benificial for jaws as eloquence of jaws on xp system uses the main level of the volume control of your soundcard. But, I am just a bit puzzled. If such a powerful volume mixer exists in vista, why there isn't a volume control icon on the startup group like in xp? I know 1 could just go to control panel and go in to the sounds item to select our sources and go in to the properties page to set them, however, i find slightly of a hassel to do that. Of-course I could just create a shortcut of the sndvol32.exe at the start menu. Any intake from listers on this?
Next, though not completely audio related, but someword related. I tried installing Sound Forge 8.0D in vista. I got a msg that SF needs .frame network 1.1. I tried installing but got some error message and my .dot frame network couldn't be installed. Does listers know why is this so and is there a work around? Finally, its regarding vista's windows media centre. I understand that we could setup our tv-tuner card to work with WMC and use it to set schedules and recordings etc and just use it without installing any related pvr softwares, as in xp. Currently, I have a cable set top box attached to my card. When I tried configuring it and told it that my card is attached to a external set top box, it told me that I need a microsoft remote control or something of that sort. I am a bit puzzled on this. How exactly does this work? Is WMC any accessible at all? Have I done anything wrong? Thanks all and hope to get any relevant input from listers who have experience with vista and its audio. Thanks. Regards, Edwin. Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
