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Re: Getting Default Output Device gives a strange answer
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Re: Getting Default Output Device gives a strange answer


  • Subject: Re: Getting Default Output Device gives a strange answer
  • From: Jeff Moore <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:11:18 -0800

A value of 0 for an AudioDeviceID is defined in AudioHardware.h to be kAudioDeviceUnknown. In this context, it is to be taken to mean that there is currently no device capable and/or willing to be the default device currently.

Also, not having a default device when asked is not an API error, hence no error code will be returned.

On Nov 13, 2006, at 7:29 PM, Andrew Kimpton wrote:

I have :

UInt32 size;
AudioDeviceID outputDevice = -1;
OSStatus osErr = AudioHardwareGetProperty(kAudioHardwarePropertyDefaultOuputDevice,
&size,
&outputDevice);


And I seem to have got my Intel Mac Mini 'wedged' such that the above code returns noErr but gives
zero for the outputDevice - even though HALLab tells me that the ID is 0x104


Is there any other way to get the device ID of the default output device ? Is there some initialization step
I've missed somewhere ?
Full disclosure - I have been playing with hog mode to grab the optical output (ie the default output) so
I can send AC-3 data to an attached decoder, and I probably aborted the app without releasing hog mode.
However HALLab seems pretty happy, and thinks the Hog mode 'id' is -1 which I take to mean no-one is
hogging things right now.


--

Jeff Moore
Core Audio
Apple


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