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soundDevice

Syntax

    the soundDevice

Description

System property; allows the sound mixing device to be set while the movie plays. The possible settings are the devices listed in `soundDeviceList`.

Several sound devices can be referenced. The various sound devices for Windows have different advantages.

| MacroMix (Windows)—The lowest common denominator for Windows playback. This device functions on any Windows computer, but its latency is not as good as that of other devices.
| DirectSound (Windows))—A sound device Xtra that permits low-latency audio playback performance on Windows and ensures reliable playing, mixing, and switching between different audio sources such as Director, AVI, and QuickTime sound. DirectSound is the default value for `soundDevice` on Windows.
| This Xtra requires DirectSound 5 or later from Microsoft. The DirectSound Xtra (DirectSound.x32) and Microsoft's DirectSound must both be installed in order for the DirectSound `soundDevice` to work.
| Windows NT 4 does not support DirectSound.
| QT3Mix (Windows)—Mixes sound with QuickTime audio and possibly with other applications if they use DirectSound. This device requires that QuickTime be installed and has better latency than MacroMix.
| MacSoundManager (Macintosh)—The only sound device available on the Macintosh.

Example

This statement sets the sound device to the MacroMix for a Windows computer. If the newly assigned device fails, the `soundDevice` property is not changed.

    set the soundDevice = "MacroMix"

See also

`soundDeviceList`