The procedure is frequently complicated and is different for various soundcard chipset families. Unfortunately, to enable the "Stereo Mixer" feature is not as simple as ticking a checkbox.
So after much Googling around, I found out that for most sound cards, the hardware feature is still there, just not enabled on the software side. Then under pressure from various organizations on the dark side of the force, Microsoft and soundcard makers starting disabling this wonderful feature from Windows Vista onwards. This allowed you to capture whatever was played to the speaker in all its digital glory. The video capture worked brilliantly, but to do a sound capture, I needed to do some hacking.Īpparently, there was this recording device called "Stereo Mixer" that was pretty standard in the Windows XP days. I was playing with CamStudio to do a video capture of a Flash-based cartoon so that I can put it on the WDTV media player and play it on the big screen in the living room for my kids. If you’re still having issues, please post a comment and we’ll try to help.This procedure worked for my laptop (Thinkpad E530) with a Conexant 20671 sound card, but I suspect it will work for other sound cards in the Conexant family. Go ahead and restart the computer and hopefully you should be able to change the sound properties in Control Panel and play sounds on your computer. If not, you need to double-click on service, start it and then set the Startup Type to Automatic. To do this, click on Start and then run and type in services.msc in Windows XP or just click on Start and then type in services.msc in Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8.īy default, it should say Started under Status. To fix the issue, we need to open the Services dialog. If, for any reason, the service is stopped, then you will have the above-mentioned problems. If you’re getting the grayed out issue in Control Panel, but the driver seems to be installed fine in Device Manager, then your only other issue is probably related to the Windows Audio service.
Follow the previous link to install the chipset drivers for your motherboard manufacturer.
If your sound card is integrated into your motherboard, you’ll have to re-install the motherboard chipset drivers. For Driver Provider, you may see other names like Realtek, etc depending on the manufacturer of the sound card.
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