enable Wave Out recording in Vista

erichblas2005erichblas2005 Your Native TexanHouston,Texas Member
edited December 2007 in Science & Tech
How do I enable Wave Out recording in Vista. All I get is two mic icons and a line in.

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  • erichblas2005erichblas2005 Your Native Texan Houston,Texas Member
    edited November 2007
    anyone.
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited November 2007
    My experience with Windows in general has been that your sound card has to offer an "Analog Mix" or "Wave Out" as a recording source. If your sound card driver doesn't have it then you can't record it. You can always loop your line-out into your line-in though.

    -drasnor :fold:
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2007
    drasnor wrote:
    My experience with Windows in general has been that your sound card has to offer an "Analog Mix" or "Wave Out" as a recording source. If your sound card driver doesn't have it then you can't record it. You can always loop your line-out into your line-in though.

    -drasnor :fold:

    Bingo.
  • erichblas2005erichblas2005 Your Native Texan Houston,Texas Member
    edited November 2007
    It had it with XP.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2007
    That doesn't mean the Vista drivers have them.
  • erichblas2005erichblas2005 Your Native Texan Houston,Texas Member
    edited November 2007
    Is there a way to tell if new sound cards will have this feature.
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited November 2007
    They'll list it on the spec sheet, maybe.

    -drasnor :fold:
  • stoopidstoopid Albany, NY New
    edited November 2007
    It could be one of the many audio limitations inherent with Vista. The new audio layer changed everything. Any functionality that could have been related to pirating stuff (including using the wave out) has become very restricted because of the move towards a more DRM/media-managed design. SPDIF is pretty useless in Vista, and the only way I know to get a pure 6 channel digital signal from a Vista run computer to an external component is over HDCP (the new HDMI interface for use in certain video cards).
  • stoopidstoopid Albany, NY New
    edited December 2007
    Does this help?

    http://www.driverheaven.net/audio-general-technical-discussion/130879-windows-vista-recoding-what-you-hear-how.html
  • erichblas2005erichblas2005 Your Native Texan Houston,Texas Member
    edited December 2007
    sorry no. I did that already.
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