need to auto launch video and an audio playlist to DIFFERENT outputs. Win7

[ZippyDan]

i have a Windows 7 machine that i want to use as a "media center" in a store.

the machine will output video and audio to an LCD TV over HDMI

and will also output audio from a preselected mp3 playlist to the store's sound system via a USB sound card

i need to be able to start a media program (either two instances of the same program, or two different programs) from the command line on every boot to do this, and be able to SPECIFY the audio output to use

is this possible?

 

[P4man]

Hi,

It should be doable If you use a program that lets you define a non default soundcard for either the video or the audio stream (and set the default in windows to the other card for any other media player). Im not too familiar with all windows media apps, but SMPlayer is one I know that will let you select an audio card to use. Its based on mplayer which is a command line media player and that might be exactly what you need (its ported to windows) although smplayer also accepts plenty of command line arguments (check the help). Its a fantastic videoplayer btw.

BTW bis this really is the sort of applications where pulseaudio shines, assigning specific audio streams to specific cards (or even network streams). Pulseaudio is a soundserver used by default on most linux distro's. Its cross platform in theory and there is a windows port of it somewhere but a quick glance at their website suggests its gonna be a whole lot easier to just run ubuntu than try and build PA for windows.

Anyway, the above should work for you, and is probably the easiest way in windows, Im just not sure why you'd use windows for something like that