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DirectSound/FFDShow without a Sound Card


I've got an application that uses DirectShow/DirectSound which plays videos and extracts the video/sound. Running it on a server without a soundcard means the audio cannot be grabbed, is there a way around this? I look briefly at Virtual Audio Cable 4 but that doesn't seem to emulate a soundcard over a terminal session..

The tricky part of this is that it's running on x64 so i maybe somewhat limited..

Cheers


Solution

  • VAC does do the trick but it's somewhat limited in that it doesn't work when you connect to the server through a RDP session.

    For the moment I've worked around the issue by starting the process over VNC...