Are you now using Windows 7 and have your past successful experiences been with Windows XP? Windows 7 tightens up the recording capability some as part of Digital Rights Management and such to prevent recording material that was not intended to be recorded such as streams, for example. Others here will understand this better than I, but this seems to be a common problem with Windows 7, and you may need to buy software to get around this. There are things about Windows 7 that I don't completely understand. For example, I've accidentally had Eloquence come out of my headphones while Windows sounds still came out of my speakers with the same sound card, but I have not been able to do this intentionally. <smile> There seems to have been some major changes in the handling of audio with Windows 7.
Best regards, Steve Jacobson On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:31:12 -0400, Kane Brolin wrote: >On 10/27/11, Brett Boyer <[email protected]> wrote: >> is it that you are not able to see stereo mix in your sound control >> dialog box? >Yes, Brett, this is indeed part of the problem. In all the reading I >had done about laptops and direct sound recording, a consistent >message seems to indicate that I need to specify that I want to record >from the STEREO MIX in order for this to happen. >The four options available to me in the RECORDING tab of my Control >Panel sound settings are "Rec. Playback," "Microphone Array," >"Microphone/Line In," or "Dock Mic." I have gone into the application >and have checked both SHOW DISABLED DEVICES and SHOW DISCONNECTED >DEVICES. >Here's one point I mentioned before to the list; it could give you a >clue to where my problem lies. Interestingly, if I am >running speech output in JAWS when the recording is set to start, it >will record JAWS speech output that comes through my integrated sound >if I have specified the Dock Mic as my recording source. But it will >not record the multimedia >content that is playing via Windows Media Player, Internet Explorer, >iTunes, etc., at the same time. >To see whether JAWS itself was the problem, I turned off speech output >and ran JAWS strictly through my Braille display. Then I started a >media stream, set Replay AV's timer to record output from the >integrated sound, and >waited until the recording was supposed to stop. When I checked it >later, there was no recording whatsoever, even though I had been >present and knew the stream had been playing through my speakers all along. >> Just to be clear this is not a dell issue. I have owned a few dells in >> my time and I have been very happy with them. >I too am very happy with my Dell, considering that it is a Precision >that probably cost $6,000 on the new market. I purchased it lightly >used from a U.T. grad student for $900, as she was switching over >completely to the Apple platform to meet work requirements. It still >had more than two years left on its Dell warranty when I purchased it, >too, so I have received meaningful support from the manufacturer even >though I paid a mere fraction of the original cost. As with all >systems, though, one needs to get around various quirks and >limitations before being able to do everything one wants. Not a >surprise to me at this stage of my life. >> >> Also are all your sound drivers up-to-date? The dell updater is not >> completely accessible but it does work. >I'll check this out next. >Thanks to Brett and Kelly for your input so far. >-Kane >To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >[email protected] To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [email protected]
