I just had to say this.
Short story is, because the Philips Acoustics Edge records sound in a mathematical digital timecode it won't render captured video properly but has excellent hardware 'QSound', it plays MP3's perfectly and the sound in games is awesome. To correct my rendering problem, I use my old SB Live card that does analog timecoding, so rendering video is not a problem. To fix this I installed the two sound cards in one system.
For Win2K that's not a problem upon first boot Win2K saw both, I installed the drivers and I was able to goto multimedia properties and tell it which sound card to use for playback and use the SB for recording. no problem. Here's how I connected my cards, the line-out for the SB goes into the line-in for the AE and the Line-out from the AE goes into my Surround AMP. no problem.
The problem is with ATI's MMC, get this, when you initialize the sound from the SB it will automatically mute all other sound cards, the problem is if it mutes my AE and since I have the SB line-out going into the line-in I won't hear the MMC(TV). No problem right, I just have to go into the sound properties and adjust the volume in the playback and recording from both cards which I did. Once I do that I can then play MP3's and games from the AE like I want and record TV from my SB Live. Perfect.
Here's what the stupid MMC software does. If you exit the program and restart it, it will only recognize the 'master' card even though I selected the line-in from the SB Live, it does not keep that setting. Again if I reset the Line-in it automatically mutes the AE. This is not a settings problem it's what the software does by default, the MMC on it's own figures that if I choose the SB Live that I should not hear anything coming from other sound cards in my system, but my SB Line-out is going to my AE line-in, and everything works when I set it. But the stupid MMC software doesn't understand that I need the two cards and need to hear the Line-in from my AE. The MMC will work with two sound cards but only if you select the MASTER as the Line-in. If I choose the SB Live as the master I can't choose the AE for MP3's or Games.
Again, this would work if MMC understood that I need the two cards, but it's to stupid to figure that out and by default cancels my setting and mutes it by default. Thank you once again ATI for a POS software that forces me to use a analog timecoding sound card for everything.
Short story is, because the Philips Acoustics Edge records sound in a mathematical digital timecode it won't render captured video properly but has excellent hardware 'QSound', it plays MP3's perfectly and the sound in games is awesome. To correct my rendering problem, I use my old SB Live card that does analog timecoding, so rendering video is not a problem. To fix this I installed the two sound cards in one system.
For Win2K that's not a problem upon first boot Win2K saw both, I installed the drivers and I was able to goto multimedia properties and tell it which sound card to use for playback and use the SB for recording. no problem. Here's how I connected my cards, the line-out for the SB goes into the line-in for the AE and the Line-out from the AE goes into my Surround AMP. no problem.
The problem is with ATI's MMC, get this, when you initialize the sound from the SB it will automatically mute all other sound cards, the problem is if it mutes my AE and since I have the SB line-out going into the line-in I won't hear the MMC(TV). No problem right, I just have to go into the sound properties and adjust the volume in the playback and recording from both cards which I did. Once I do that I can then play MP3's and games from the AE like I want and record TV from my SB Live. Perfect.
Here's what the stupid MMC software does. If you exit the program and restart it, it will only recognize the 'master' card even though I selected the line-in from the SB Live, it does not keep that setting. Again if I reset the Line-in it automatically mutes the AE. This is not a settings problem it's what the software does by default, the MMC on it's own figures that if I choose the SB Live that I should not hear anything coming from other sound cards in my system, but my SB Line-out is going to my AE line-in, and everything works when I set it. But the stupid MMC software doesn't understand that I need the two cards and need to hear the Line-in from my AE. The MMC will work with two sound cards but only if you select the MASTER as the Line-in. If I choose the SB Live as the master I can't choose the AE for MP3's or Games.
Again, this would work if MMC understood that I need the two cards, but it's to stupid to figure that out and by default cancels my setting and mutes it by default. Thank you once again ATI for a POS software that forces me to use a analog timecoding sound card for everything.
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