[Elecraft] [K3] MMTTY

[Mike]

  Thanks, Joe.

I dunno how you keep up with all you do. Trust M$ to make an Alp out of an anthill.

73, Mike

On 8/8/2010 7:58 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
>   >  This will mostly be on XP, with occasional excursions on Win7.
>   >  What does "directly selecting the endpoint" mean? I'm real new
>   >  to Win7.
>
> When you open the "Volume Mixer" in Windows 7, the "device" box
> has a drop down box (down arrow to the right of "Speakers" etc.)
> that allows you to select the output to be controlled.  With
> Vista, there is one entry in the Menu bar that says "device."
> In either case you select the "endpoint" (output) to be controlled.
>
> In Vista/Windows 7 terminology an "endpoint" is the output or input
> device (or jack) on a soundcard.  For example, "speakers", "headpone",
> "HDMI", "SPDIF", etc.  A single soundcard may have only one active
> input endpoint (mic, line, SPDIF, CD, etc.) and one output endpoint
> (speakers, headphone, SPDIF, HDMI, etc.) at a particular time.  If
> one application opens the Line Input on a soundcard other applications
> may not open the Mic Input on that soundcard until the original
> application releases the line input.  Note - if an input or output
> endpoint is defined as the Windows system or communications default
> (there are four defaults, system input, system output, communications
> input and communications output) they are "locked" and applications
> may not change (use) other endpoints on those soundcard(s).
>
> 73,
>
>      ... Joe, W4TV