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authorKevin Mitchell <kevmitch@gmail.com>2015-03-31 02:33:24 -0700
committerKevin Mitchell <kevmitch@gmail.com>2015-03-31 12:28:41 -0700
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ao_wasapi: fix device listing
remove depricated and convoluted validation. refer instead to the --audio-device option.
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@@ -302,19 +302,19 @@ Available audio output drivers are:
``wasapi``
Audio output to the Windows Audio Session API.
+ ``exclusive``
+ Requests exclusive, direct hardware access. By definition prevents
+ sound playback of any other program until mpv exits.
``device=<id>``
Uses the requested endpoint instead of the system's default audio
- endpoint. Both the number and the ID String are valid; the ID String
- is guaranteed to not change unless the driver is uninstalled.
+ endpoint. Both an ordinal number (0,1,2,...) and the GUID
+ String are valid; the GUID string is guaranteed to not change
+ unless the driver is uninstalled.
- Also supports searching active devices by name. If more than one
- device matches the name, refuses loading it.
+ Also supports searching active devices by human readable name. If more
+ than one device matches the name, refuses loading it.
- To get a list of the valid devices, give ``help`` as the id. The
- list is the same as the ``list`` suboption, but stops the player
- initialization.
- ``exclusive``
- Requests exclusive, direct hardware access. By definition prevents
- sound playback of any other program until mpv exits.
- ``list``
- Lists all audio endpoints (output devices) present in the system.
+ This option is mostly deprecated in favour of the more general
+ ``--audio-device`` option. That said, ``--audio-device=help`` will give
+ a list of valid device GUIDs (prefixed with ``wasapi/``), as well as
+ their human readable names, which should work here.