How to Find Sound Capabilities

Keywords: 	 sound	playmedia

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Question:

I am in need of determining if a sound card or sound capability (able to play a wav file) is present in a client via Winbatch. I could not find a consistent registry entry nor could I get the playmidi and playwaveform to provide me with the information.

Thanks in advance.

Answer:

There is no real real good method. Even with all the correct hardware they may have the speakers turned off and won't hear anything anyway.

My trick is to....

	ErrorMode(@OFF)
	LastError()
	PlayMedia("Status WaveForm Ready")
	ErrorMode(@CANCEL)
	if LastError()!=1193
		Message("Sound","Windows multimedia extensions present.")
	else
		Message("Sound","No sound")
	endif

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Article ID:   W13217

Filename:   Find Sound Capabilities.txt