RugburnXXX
06-17-10, 09:23 PM
Am looking to see if any of you computer whizzes out there can me be a better solution to this than what I currently have - which is explained at the end of this post.
I lost my mic capability in vent last night. So after checking all the settings in both and my audio control panel (IDT) and everything checked out correctly I tried old faithful, simple system reboot. Then, on a lark I opened Skype first and did a mic check there, everything good so far. Left Skype open so could watch the level meter, opened vent and ran a test. Failure in vent and lost the mic in Skype.
So i farted around a while trying various things like rebooting and opening only vent, uninstalling, uninstalling and deleting registry and some other things that even at the time seemed pretty far fetched to be of help - and sure enough, nothing helped. Vent NEVER got the mic to work and Skype worked fine up until I keyed it the first time in vent. Then [finally] I noticed vent was keeping my settings on each uninstall so tracked where they are saved:
[drive]:\documents and settings\[user]\applications
and removed the vent folder.
Mic worked, but with some limitations. I went to boost inbound a little and lost the mic again when I selected a "mixer/Mux/Line". Once selected, was back to original problem of losing the mic complete first time keyed in vent. Even select 'none' for the mixer/mux/line did not help unless i restarted - and then that only gave the mic back to Skype. The only way to recover functional mic in vent is to do an uninstall, remove the ventrilo folder in .../applications and do a reinstall of vent. Tiresome!
So for the moment, my current solution is to avoid using the "Hardware Input Mixer" or changing any other setting anywhere relating to the mic. Thing is, its not the great solution and I'm not worried that if I do something that inadvertently makes a change to mic settings - I'm going to have to muddle through the uninstall/reinstall and set up every time that happens.
Any one got a solution (or even a decent suggestion or two)?
-rug
I lost my mic capability in vent last night. So after checking all the settings in both and my audio control panel (IDT) and everything checked out correctly I tried old faithful, simple system reboot. Then, on a lark I opened Skype first and did a mic check there, everything good so far. Left Skype open so could watch the level meter, opened vent and ran a test. Failure in vent and lost the mic in Skype.
So i farted around a while trying various things like rebooting and opening only vent, uninstalling, uninstalling and deleting registry and some other things that even at the time seemed pretty far fetched to be of help - and sure enough, nothing helped. Vent NEVER got the mic to work and Skype worked fine up until I keyed it the first time in vent. Then [finally] I noticed vent was keeping my settings on each uninstall so tracked where they are saved:
[drive]:\documents and settings\[user]\applications
and removed the vent folder.
Mic worked, but with some limitations. I went to boost inbound a little and lost the mic again when I selected a "mixer/Mux/Line". Once selected, was back to original problem of losing the mic complete first time keyed in vent. Even select 'none' for the mixer/mux/line did not help unless i restarted - and then that only gave the mic back to Skype. The only way to recover functional mic in vent is to do an uninstall, remove the ventrilo folder in .../applications and do a reinstall of vent. Tiresome!
So for the moment, my current solution is to avoid using the "Hardware Input Mixer" or changing any other setting anywhere relating to the mic. Thing is, its not the great solution and I'm not worried that if I do something that inadvertently makes a change to mic settings - I'm going to have to muddle through the uninstall/reinstall and set up every time that happens.
Any one got a solution (or even a decent suggestion or two)?
-rug