Add Audio Output Device / Text Chat to Firefox Hello.

This isn't a question, more a suggestion.
What would really make Hello awesome would be the ability to select that audio output device used for conversations rather than it simply using the windows default, the audio output device used for alert (ringing) as people would probably want ringing to be on main speakers and the conversation on something like a headset. And of course text chat, so links and other textual information can be easily sent.

Thanks Fred. I understand Hello is in early days so of course I don't expect it to be all singing all dancing right from day one, I'm sure it will continue to evolve. So far however I'm impressed, the audio/video quality is excellent and barely any latency. Top notch stuff.

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I have been a Firefox user for many years and I still use it as my primary browser. One problem that has bothered me for years is the fact that when Firefox is open and I change my default audio output device, Firefox doesn't respect that change and continues playing audio through the device that was originally being used. Even if you stop the audio and continue playing, the output device doesn't change.
Is there any way this can be configured in Firefox? Now if I listen to music online (e.g. Soundcloud) I always use Chrome since it's respects the default audio output device change even while in the middle of playing audio.
Reproduce:
1. Start playing audio (e.g. from a YouTube video; HTML5 and Flash are affected)
2. Change your default audio output device
3. Audio will continue to play from original output device
Thanks!

This is the same issue that has plagued me for years. I always thought that this was a Flash plugin issue, but it does occur on HTML5 as well. A friend of mine verified that this does not occur in Linux, but only on Windows. It would be great to have this fixed, as it's honestly the only thing that's making me use Chrome all the time, as I don't want to have multiple browsers open.

NO Audio output Device is installed as well as NO sound, video, or game tab in the device manager

Here is the issue I had with with my Compaq F700 series laptop. The sound was working one day and then not working the next. Over the volume icon there was a big red X and the warning that No Audio output Device is installed. I also found that there no longer was the sound, video, game tab in the device manager. It had gone missing.
I couldn't use most of the fixes as they require having the sound, video, game tab available and this tab was, as I said missing. I tried reinstalling the sound drivers from the manufacturer’s website as well as using the driver re-install, but at each attempt it would fail as a result of not having any audio devices installed on the computer.
I tried doing the system restore and rolling it back but the problem didn't get resolved. What eventually worked was restoring the system to a MUCH earlier date, like a month prior to the problem. When the restore finished the sound was still not fixed. HOWEVER, the computer OS (WINDOWS 7) needed to re-install a bunch of updates and after the updates were installed, everything was working. I suspect that the original issue was a bad update (the updates didn't install correctly) and that by rolling the system back to a time prior to the bad updates and then re-installing the update was the fix.
With that said, if the restore option doesn’t work or can’t be done I would try looking through the add/remove programs in the control panel and uninstall the most recent system updates, then restart computer and let the updates re-install.
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Only option that I see in the BIOS is under Security. Audio Device: Hidden or Available. It was set to available and I left it at that. Still no audio.
Really? Nothing? This computer is one year old. Absolutely no reason for this to be happening. What a joke.

No audio output device is installed - Satellite C855D-S5950 - Windows 8 64-bit

Toshiba laptop
Model: Satellite C855D-S5950
P/N: PSCBQU-03G03E
OS: Windows 8 64bit
RAM: 4GB.
Hello,
I have my friend’s Toshiba Satellite C855D-S5950 with Windows 8 (64bit) that about a year old. Some months ago the sound stopped working. He asked me to take a look at it. I have researched this issue and found others have encountered his problem as well.
Currently, the sound icon has a red x, “No audio output device is installed.”
Things I have tried so far to try to fix this:
I went to the Device Manager > Sound, video and game controllers. I have "Realtek High Definition Audio" listed with the little yellow caution icons on them. I have tried to disable, then enable it. I have tried to uninstall the sound driver from the Device Manager. I would restart the laptop, and let the driver reinstall itself, to no effect. I have tried downloading the latest drivers from the Toshiba website. I have tried un-installing the driver while in safe mode from the Device Manager. As well as from Programs and Features. There were no positive change to the audio though, still the same message. The Realtek driver won't finish installing and throws the error: "Install Realtek HD Audio Driver Failure!! [Error Code: 0x000000FF]"
I have gone to Control Panel > Sound, under both the Playback and Recording tabs, it says "No audio devices are installed."
My friend was previously unaware of how to restart or shut down his Windows 8 laptop (as was I until I started investigating this problem for him). I mention this because there are no useful System Restore points to go back to for him.
I have also tried Using the Toshiba Application Installer as well to re-install the driver after un-installing the Realtek Audio driver from Add/Remove Programs. I went to Desktop Assist >Support Recovery > Toshiba Application Installer.
Realtek Audio Driver 6.0.1.6743
It loads most of the way then I get:
"Install Realtek HD Audio Driver Failure!! [Error Code: 0x000000FF]"
I have also tried the following links for additional troubleshooting:
http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/Audio-Sound-Knowledge-Base/Windows-8-Troubleshoot-no-sound-with-Windows...
http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/Audio-Sound-Knowledge-Base/No-sound-from-speakers-or-headphones/ta-p/27...
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/no-sound-help#no-sound=windows-7&v1h=win8tab1&v2h=win7tab...
http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/Audio-Sound/No-Sound-quot-No-Audio-Output-Device-is-installed-quot-Tosh...
It was also suggested in the above thread I remove the Microsoft UAA Driver, but could not find this driver on my friend’s system.
Plugging in headphones, toggling the speaker volume controls on the keyboard has had no effect.
My friend has also misplaced his install discs, so I am looking for any solution which does not require the install discs.
Any help would greatly be appreciated.
Toshiba laptop
Model: Satellite C855D-S5950
P/N: PSCBQU-03G03E
OS: Windows 8 64bit
RAM: 4GB.
Thanks in advance.
-Tre

Recovery media is created from the hard drive. You can make it using Toshiba Recovery Media Creator. You can also perform a full system reset to factory defaults using the information on the hard drive without using external recovery media. That sounds like the best course of action now. To do so, use Windows+C > Settings > Power > SHIFT + Restart > Troubleshoot > Reset your PC.
- Peter

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Hi,
currently I’m working on an application that starts by changing the audio-output-device and ends with re-setting the old one.
On Windows XP I do this by changing the Registry-entry “Sound-Mapper” and it works quite well.
I hopefully assume it works on all Windows Systems from XP to Windows 7.
The background is that our program is supposed to play certain multi-channel sounds over an external USB-multichannel-soundcard and it should switch to that device on start. To actually play the sounds we use the AxWindowsMediaPlayer-Class
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AxWindowsMediaPlayer to use a certain device?
Thank you.

Hi Kristin,
I think your reply pushed me in the right direction.
The waveOutOpen-function is part of the
winmm.dll-API and I think, that API is the solution to my Problem.
Unfortunately I am stuck at this point. I tried mciSendString and mciSendComand. Both are cappable of playing sound, but I am unable to change the output Device.
This is my c# code to open a WAV-File via mciSendCommand:
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open.wDeviceID = 0;//this is somehow ignored
open.lpstrDeviceType = Marshal.StringToHGlobalAnsi("waveaudio");
open.lpstrElementName = Marshal.StringToHGlobalAnsi(@"test.wav");
IntPtr ptr = Marshal.AllocHGlobal(Marshal.SizeOf(typeof(MCI_OPEN_PARMS)));
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mciSendCommand(Convert.ToUInt32(textBox2.Text),
MCI_OPEN,
MCI_WAIT | MCI_OPEN_TYPE | MCI_OPEN_ELEMENT,
ptr);
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Regards, Marc

Changing audio output device

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I'm building an application that uses LCCS for video calls.
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Since the current version doesn't support AEC, all our users uses headphones to use the service.
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this is actually a quiet significant issue. There is no way in Flash to select the audio output device.
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Help! No Audio Output device is installed

My speaker in bottom right for My sound say "No Audio Output Device Is Installed" and i have tried to go through many things to solve such as go into device manager and enable or update through there etc...to no avail.
I stumbled across a thing that worked for most people. Recovery Manager. but. I don't have it on my computer to try so i have no other options to turn to. Can someone please help on how to fix this issue

Dear Customer,
Welcome to the HP Consumer Support Forum!!
To isolate the issue please perform the steps below:
1. Restart the computer.
2. Check the Sound icon in the taskbar.
3. If the icon has an X in the lower corner, click the Sound icon in the taskbar or
4. Right-click the icon, and then click Troubleshoot sound problems.
5. The audio troubleshooter checks for sound problems. When the troubleshooter finishes, it displays the results.
6. If the computer has sound, the issue is resolved.
Install Original Realtek High Definition Audio Driver from the link below:
http://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/HP-Pavilion-Slimline-s5000-Desktop-PC-series/3942804...
From the above link click on Driver-Original > Original Realtek High Definition Audio Driver > Download and install the same.
In case the issue still persists and if the audio was working fine earlier, you may perform system restore to previous working condition using the steps mentioned in the link below:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/restoresysv.html
Hope this helps, for any further queries reply to the post and feel free to join us again.
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HELP ASAP! no audio output device installed with hp pavilion dv2500

product name: hp pavilion dv2000
model number: dv2710us
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my hp keeps telling that have no audio output device installed and theres the the image for volume with a large red circle with a white x in it.
this is not true because i have contexant (i think that's what it is called) speakers installed.
Lately when i would restart my computer the sound would work intermittently but for the past two days whether i restart my computer or not the image for volume with a large red circle with a white x in it is still there and says no audio output device installed. PLEASE HELP!
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Hi, you can try the below steps to resolve the issue :
Step 1 : Re-install audio drivers from HP Recovery Manager.
1. Click Start, in the Start search box, type recovery . Then click Recovery Manager .
2. In the Recovery Manager window that displays, click Next. On the Reinstall software programs that came with your computer screen, click No, I would like to see other options . Then click Next .
3. In the Reinstall hardware drivers screen, click Yes . Then click Next. On the Welcome to Hardware Driver Reinstaller screen, click Next .
4. In the driver list, select the name of the sound adapter installed on the system. Then click Next. When complete, the Reinstallation is complete screen displays. Click Finish to restart the computer. After the computer starts, test for sound. If the issue persists perform step 2.
Step 2 : Re-install audio drivers manually
If there is no sound and the error still displays, update the audio driver from the weblink below :
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=ob-63129-1&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&...
Step 3 : Restart the Windows Audio Service.
1. Click Start , type services.msc into the search field, and then select services.msc from the list when it becomes available to open the Programs window.
2. Scroll down to and select Windows Audio , right-click to open the drop-down menu, and then click Start .
3. Right-click Windows Audio , click Properties , and then verify that Startup Type is set to Automatic .
Restart the Notebook and check for the issue.
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http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/9ebd7ad6-a460-4a28-9de9-2af63fd4a13e/programatica lly-setting-the-default-playback-device-and-recording-device?forum=windowspro-audiodevelop ment
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http://www.adobe.com/devnet/rtmp.html
So I'd say it would be unfortunate if Adobe did give you access to the bytes. You might as well just hand users a mp3 of whatever song is playing because they would steal media left and right.
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Windows 8.1 Pro No Audio Output Device

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This really is an issue.

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