Vista Audio Stack "Feature"

daytrip00

I was playing a c9 video today and tripped over my headphone cable as i was picking something up off the ground...

WMP gets an error and says it can't play back the sound anymore.

I had to close it and start it up again... good thing i had downloaded the wmv file so i could skip forward when i watched it again.

I'm not sure what great positive features this awareness of wether my headphones are plugged in or not allows... Any ideas?

ElucidWeb

daytrip00 wrote:
I was playing a c9 video today and tripped over my headphone cable as i was picking something up off the ground...

WMP gets an error and says it can't play back the sound anymore.

I had to close it and start it up again... good thing i had downloaded the wmv file so i could skip forward when i watched it again.

I'm not sure what great positive features this awareness of wether my headphones are plugged in or not allows... Any ideas?

I have to adit I was looking forward to this feature but it doesnt work half the time at all! A loud video will be playing i will click on audio -> mixer and lower the volume of Windows Media Player and nothing happens??? The volume does not lower, I take it all the way down and it still will not lower, I am thinking this is a codec issue or something? But it just doesnt work how its suppose to all the time...I have this issue consistently and not just with Windows Media Player but with IE also, sometimes I cant control the volume of the application with Mixer, anyone else have this wierdness?

DigitalDud

daytrip00 wrote:
I was playing a c9 video today and tripped over my headphone cable as i was picking something up off the ground...

WMP gets an error and says it can't play back the sound anymore.

I had to close it and start it up again... good thing i had downloaded the wmv file so i could skip forward when i watched it again.

I'm not sure what great positive features this awareness of wether my headphones are plugged in or not allows... Any ideas?

Here Vista remembers the volume level when headphones are plugged in, or not, and switches back automatically. It sucks that you're having this problem.

BlackTiger
If you stumbled and fell down, it doesn't mean yet, that you're going in the wrong direction.

This "feature" is really annoying...

Jorgie
Jorgie

Seems like a feature to me. The output device went away, how can it continue to play?

There is are a lot of reasons for treating the headphones as the output device and not the port. Some good, like having settings specific to a class of devices and some not so nice like detecting that a non-secure device was swapped in for a secure output device.

Jorgie

BlackTiger
If you stumbled and fell down, it doesn't mean yet, that you're going in the wrong direction.

Jorgie wrote:

Seems like a feature to me. The output device went away, how can it continue to play?

Yep, sounds good. But even if I'm attaching "device" back sound doesn't returns! Try to start playing a movie in WMP or ZoomPlayer and detach your speakers. Have fun. May it depends on hardware/drivers, but I had this "fun" on 2 different motherboards.