Fast possibility to switch Audio Output device (1 Viewer)

[dakky]

Started on: 2008-07-23
last update: 2008-07-23

Summary: Fast possibility to switch Audio Output device

Area: TV, radio, movie, etc

Description:

Hello

i think a useful feature for mediaportal might be a faster way to change the used audio device an restart the movie/stream/mp3/whatever.
ATM the only way I know is to go for example to "settings -> My Movies -> select audio device" and then restart the movie (in case i started it before) and resume at the last position.

the background is, that 50% of the time i use the hdmi digital out device. but the other 50% i am in need of better sound, so i use my 5.1 receiver which is the digital out device. and alway switching the device in the "long way" is really annoying.

i could imagine a feature, which allows me, to cycle the different devices with one button on the remote or in the context menu of the movie/mp/whatever



greetz
dakky

ps: forgive my humble english

 

[Monchi]

hi dakky, im looking for right the same feature.

perhaps one skilled programmer will be so nice to code a tiny plugin for realising this.

 

[alpinestars]

AudioOutputDeviceSwitch

Hi,

I "developed" a workaround with an autohotkey script and compiled it to aods.exe ("AudioOutputDeviceSwitch")

This script will
1) end mediaportal if it's running
2) switch the audio output device by using the sound control window
3) start mediaportal if it ran before

You can switch to the audio output device by pressing "Win"+"1", "Win"+"2" etc., look at the screenshot

It supports Windows Vista 32 and 64 (German version), my tests are successfull. I also included a support of Windows XP, but could not test it on XP.

BTW: I'm not a delevoper ...

alpinestars

 

[dakky]

Awesome! Thank u very much. I'll give this piece of software a try as soon as i am @ home

Dakky