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Frodo: Set xbmc audio device to win 7 default playback device - lopan24 - 2013-02-07 Hello Note: I know how to change the XBMC audio playback device from one device to another from system settings on XBMC home menu, that is not what I am asking. I have a HTPC running XBMC Frodo. The HTPC is connected to a TV in one room and a monitor and speakers in my bedroom. I often use XBMC in both rooms, starting in one and finishing in the other. For example I will stream a video in my TV room and get sleepy, and watch the rest as I fall asleep in bed watching it on my monitor and speakers. To do this I would use an audio toggle program I have macrod to my wireless keyboard to switch my Win 7 default sound output device. I wouldnt even have to alt+tab or touch the XBMC settings when I switched rooms. Audio would transfer from my tv to my speakers or vice versa. Now I find that XBMC Frodos audio output runs independent of my Win 7 default audio playback device. I have 4 choices in XBMC audio plackyback: direct sound tv, direct sound speakers, wasapi tv, wasapi speakers. Now I have no problem with manually changing the audio source from the XBMC home menu, but as far as I can tell, the only way to get to the home menu is to close whatever program I am using and lose my connection and place on the video I am streaming. I have checked the knowledge bank of advancedsettings.xml and can not seem to find a solution. Is there an advancedsettings.xml setting that will set XBMC Frodo to only use Win 7 default playback device, or can I get to the home menu to change my audio settings without closing my program somehow? Does anyone have a solution/suggestion? Thank you for reading and for your help. RE: Frodo: Set xbmc audio device to win 7 default playback device - DDDamian - 2013-02-07 Check out profiles in the wiki and map a key to them. RE: Frodo: Set xbmc audio device to win 7 default playback device - lopan24 - 2013-02-07 Thank you DDDamian I will try this tonight and let you know if I was able to do it without messing up too much Is there a post limit before I can give reputation points? (hopefully 5 and this puts me there) Gah! merging posts! I will never hit 5 RE: Frodo: Set xbmc audio device to win 7 default playback device - lopan24 - 2013-02-08 So I made two profiles One named TV and one named PC. I set the default audio ouput device on each of them (tv for TV and pc for PC). I did a few tests without leaving the default XBMC root menu (no programs running) When I used the TV profile audio would play through the TV and under system settings it reported the TV as the audio output device. Just as I wanted. However when I switched to the PC profile audio continued to play through the tv, but when I checked the system settings it reported the default audio output device as my pc... I confirmed the settings in both guisettings.xml (confirmed as best I can that is) The Audio Passthrough Device is greyed out (I can not change it from the systems settings menu). If that is of any importance. PC Profile Code: <audiooutput> TV Profile Code: <audiooutput> Also I am unsure as to how to create a keybind to toggle between profiles, or even create two seperate keybinds, one for each profile. With that in mind I had to log out each time I wanted to switch profiles. The act of logging out would close whatever program I am running and return me to the XBMC root menu. And thus closing any streaming video I was watching. As far as making a keybinding I know that I need to add some code to xbmc/user/keymaps/keyboard.xml, but not the command to enter. Code: <keymap> Are you sure I can switch between profiles while inside of a program, without having to return to the XBMC root menu? RE: Frodo: Set xbmc audio device to win 7 default playback device - DDDamian - 2013-02-08 Passthrough will be greyed out if you have Analog set as the audio mode at the top of the Audio Output settings page - it basically means any encoded formats like AC3 or DTS will be decoded by XBMC - which is fine in this case. Some of your audio settings are odd (for example the above shows TrueHD passthrough is enabled, which your TV will certainly not handle) - you may want to read the sticky thread on Frodo audio troubleshooting at the top of the Windows Support sub-forum. For the quick-switch of profiles see here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=61779 Good luck! RE: Frodo: Set xbmc audio device to win 7 default playback device - lopan24 - 2013-02-08 (2013-02-08, 03:12)DDDamian Wrote: Passthrough will be greyed out if you have Analog set as the audio mode at the top of the Audio Output settings page - it basically means any encoded formats like AC3 or DTS will be decoded by XBMC - which is fine in this case. Thanks. Reading the frodo audio sticky as i type this and have the profile keybinds figured (i think) As far as the settings they are all default. Fresh install of win 7 and fresh install of xbmc frodo (installed both on saturday). I will adjust them as outlined by the sticky |