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do you understand very slightly advanced pc audio
Gavin
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i have been using some simple contained speakers, a left and right speaker and sub that feed into a volume controller and from that into their 1 input cable. that cable is plugged into my FS jack which is also the only jack that I think is giving audio.
now, I'm trying to use a second pair of speakers who also feed out in 1 cable. I have 4 other jacks in the back panel group near FS that these speakers have not worked in called L, R and other audio letters.
I plugged them into my head phone jack which is separate and front panel and have been able to make noise this way and have also been able to do that without canceling the FS jack's noise, but I can not make them play together. eg, windows media player plays through my FS speakers that are set to primary while a test ping can play through my headphone channel.
under the working FS group in my speaker properties, the other jacks are listed like they were also related to this group but again, do not make noise. .
how confusing!..
i have been using some simple contained speakers, a left and right speaker and sub that feed into a volume controller and from that into their 1 input cable. that cable is plugged into my FS jack which is also the only jack that I think is giving audio.
now, I'm trying to use a second pair of speakers who also feed out in 1 cable. I have 4 other jacks in the back panel group near FS that these speakers have not worked in called L, R and other audio letters.
I plugged them into my head phone jack which is separate and front panel and have been able to make noise this way and have also been able to do that without canceling the FS jack's noise, but I can not make them play together. eg, windows media player plays through my FS speakers that are set to primary while a test ping can play through my headphone channel.
under the working FS group in my speaker properties, the other jacks are listed like they were also related to this group but again, do not make noise. .
how confusing!..
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Download some audio drivers for whatever chipset you're using. It probably has software that allows it to share the inputs/outputs as a single stream or split them all up. Windows default handling of this stuff is so minimal that you'd never know how they're supposed to work without proper software.
if the headphone jack and the rear jack are actually interconnected then this is not something you can work around. I'm not sure if it's possible in XP but I'm pretty sure in Windows7 if you have 2 sound cards (like, on-board sound AND a PCI sound card) then you'd be able to do what you're asking by setting one program to output to soundcard 1 and the other to soundcard 2. If you only have the one soundcard I think you would need to encode the second program's output into one of the surround sound channels and then use the rear jack that corresponds to the surround sound channel, then in windows set your speaker set-up to surround sound, and anything that actually outputs surround sound would be kind of messed up, and this isn't something you can really do without some hack and slash coding or script work.
kind of hard to give any diagnosis without specs like your soundcard and operating system.