Simultaneous users on a single HTPC

[KAZANI]

UPDATE #3:
For the various media players in the physical machine I manually assigned S/PDIF output, which bypasses the default device setting. Great, now if only there was a way to also do this for a browser...🙄

 

[vshah]

this looks interesting: http://www.indievolume.com/

Two or more soundcards, but applications play only on one.
For example, if you have built-in sound card and SoundBlaster as second sound card, or USB/Bluetooth headset, you can configure certain applications play on built-in sound card, and others play on SoundBlaster or USB headset, fully employing your audio hardware.

but some say it only works on win 7 32 bit,

edit:

then again, latest update notes:

IndieVolume 3.4.92.163
Date: June 4, 2012 Size: 1.95 MB
Changes since previous version:
- support of x32 applications for Windows 7 x64

 

[Maximilian]

This will allow you to have multiple users on the same PC on different accounts at the same time for windows 7/vista/xp. It can be undone as well.

http://deepxw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/universal-termsrvdll-patch.html

 

[vshah]

This will allow you to have multiple users on the same PC on different accounts at the same time for windows 7/vista/xp. It can be undone as well.

http://deepxw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/universal-termsrvdll-patch.html

that would still require a 2nd client machine from which to log in. OP is trying to do 2 users from one machine.

 

[KAZANI]

this looks interesting: http://www.indievolume.com/

This program does not deliver on its promises. That site's guest wall is full of negative user feedback regarding Win7 support. :thumbsdown:

 

[vshah]

bummer. maybe you could use win xp in your vms?

 

[KAZANI]

maybe you could use win xp in your vms?

Not that it would work since VMware uses a single virtual generic audio device to buffer sound from the physical machine's devices, but it wouldn't help anyways because I need to tweak the browser's audio output in the physical machine where my desktop resides.

One other thing I've tried was make a clone of the virtual machine which served only to run the browser in a separate VMware window, however having two VMs run at the same time started exhausting the i5's virtualization capabilities and video became jittery. Oh well, failing to come up with a better solution I guess I can use BS.player for some basic YouTube streaming functionality.