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For at least four years and on each of two successive systems (Q6600 and i7-2600K), I have run a two-monitor setup to view Media Center HDTV on one monitor with regular desktop and gaming apps on a desktop monitor.
The current setup:
NVidia GTX 780 ->HDMI->Onkyo AVR->LG-HDTV
Before adding either the HDMI output, AVR and HDTV to the system, all my audio went through the onboard ASUS "HD Audio" to a set of Logitech Z740 5.1 speakers. With my initially-inexperienced setup for media center with the HT equipment, this seemed to pose complications, so I turned off HD Audio in BIOS and left the Logitech speakers turned off.
I would now like to re-enable HD Audio and the Logitechs for use with games and all other system sounds, while preserving the HDMI (NVidia) output to my HT equipment and its configuration with Media Center.
I don't just want to "play around" with this and experiment. So I did some web-searches to find that others want the same thing with variations of purpose.
I find that some people use an application called "Virtual Audio Cable" or VAC for which the author wants about $25.
Another application I found mentioned by people with similar interests on forums is:
http://vb-audio.pagesperso-orange.fr/Cable/index.htm
And I also found -- on my own -- this third application:
http://www.e2esoft.cn/vsc/
In addition, people speak of something called "XSplit."
I don't mind spending up to $50 on a software license for programs that don't have bugs, don't adversely affect my Windows stability or otherwise cause problems. So the chump-change isn't the issue.
Can anyone give me some advice on this, so I can save some time, trouble and misery?
I've just finished a long period for "shaking down" my Sandy Bridge system, cleaning up sources of Event Log errors, and discovering hardware malfunctions -- the latest being a USB 3 front-panel hub that apparently was found by users to cause voltage surges -- apparently with no problem for the rest of my system but the hub is dead.
After I finish this, I want to pick up some wireless robotic cameras and add a "home-security-surveillance" feature to the Sandy Bridge so that all these things -- the Home Theater, the home-surveillance and multiple (but only double) use of sound cards/HDMI etc. works flawlessly.
The current setup:
NVidia GTX 780 ->HDMI->Onkyo AVR->LG-HDTV
Before adding either the HDMI output, AVR and HDTV to the system, all my audio went through the onboard ASUS "HD Audio" to a set of Logitech Z740 5.1 speakers. With my initially-inexperienced setup for media center with the HT equipment, this seemed to pose complications, so I turned off HD Audio in BIOS and left the Logitech speakers turned off.
I would now like to re-enable HD Audio and the Logitechs for use with games and all other system sounds, while preserving the HDMI (NVidia) output to my HT equipment and its configuration with Media Center.
I don't just want to "play around" with this and experiment. So I did some web-searches to find that others want the same thing with variations of purpose.
I find that some people use an application called "Virtual Audio Cable" or VAC for which the author wants about $25.
Another application I found mentioned by people with similar interests on forums is:
http://vb-audio.pagesperso-orange.fr/Cable/index.htm
And I also found -- on my own -- this third application:
http://www.e2esoft.cn/vsc/
In addition, people speak of something called "XSplit."
I don't mind spending up to $50 on a software license for programs that don't have bugs, don't adversely affect my Windows stability or otherwise cause problems. So the chump-change isn't the issue.
Can anyone give me some advice on this, so I can save some time, trouble and misery?
I've just finished a long period for "shaking down" my Sandy Bridge system, cleaning up sources of Event Log errors, and discovering hardware malfunctions -- the latest being a USB 3 front-panel hub that apparently was found by users to cause voltage surges -- apparently with no problem for the rest of my system but the hub is dead.
After I finish this, I want to pick up some wireless robotic cameras and add a "home-security-surveillance" feature to the Sandy Bridge so that all these things -- the Home Theater, the home-surveillance and multiple (but only double) use of sound cards/HDMI etc. works flawlessly.
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