Capture device enumeration problem

Wow! Thanks a lot for the update!
But I'm using Vista and AFAIK there's no WaveIn support with it. Does it
mean I don't have proper DSound drivers installed?

Thanks in advance!


On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Chris Robinson <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Thursday, August 05, 2010 8:23:01 pm Anton Shpakovsky wrote:
> > The problem is that I get device names somehow limited to 31 characters.
> >
> > "Microphone (Microsoft LifeCam V"      //should be "Microphone (Microsoft
> > LifeCam VX-6000)"
> >
> > "Realtek Digital Input (Realtek "               //should be "Realtek
> > Digital Input (Realtek High Definition Audio)"
> >
> >
> >
> > Is that due to some system limitation of enumeration or what?
>
> Hi.
>
> The problem seems to stem from the WaveIn API, which is typically what's
> used
> in Windows. It has a limit of 32 characters for the device name, including
> the
> terminating null char.
>
> OpenAL would need to be changed to use dsound or mmdevapi, when available,
> which should be able to provide the full names.
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