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Okay, I have a situation that seems to be common, but no amount of googling has given me an answer that works.
As the title says, I have an HP Pavilion DV4 with Vista Home Premium. In my mother's computer, an XP, it's possible to get realtime playback through the computer from the mic in source. This made it possible to, say, play back through the computer sound from a portable CD player or MP3 player in real time, or hear oneself talking or singing through the computer speakers.
My laptop is rather bizzare, however. It has a built-in mic, and a mic input jack too. I can plug in a sound source (say, a mic or the like) and record and play back the sound just fine. However, the sound will not play live through the computer's speakers like it would on XP.
Typically, in Vista, someone can go to the Control Panel -> Sound -> Pick their speakers in Playback, right-click, Properties -> Levels Tab and choose the levels of playback from certain sources, be they line in, mic in, etc. This will cause sound from the sources to play from the computer in real time, like I want. However, all those sliders to choose those are gone. In the Levels tab, all I have is a "Speakers" tab, and "PC Speaker" under it. I've seen screenshots even, this is not normal. Typically to play mic input through the speakers, one just has to unmute the microphone from there. This does not work, since there is no button or slider to do so with, or any indication it's there at all.
My mic is obviously picking up sound, however; in the Recording window's Sound tab, my microphone sliders both move up and down from sound being captured through either the internal mic or the external one.
If it helps, the HP Pavilion DV4 comes with an IDT Audio program preinstalled. I feel it may be what's causing this. The microphone has similar issues within the program, and if the program is uninstalled, there is no sound whatsoever; it's totally disabled. The speakers don't even show up in Device Manager. In short, the HP Pavilion DV4 is dependent on that program to be able to play sound. If there's a way around this as well, it may solve the first problem, but I honestly don't know.
As the title says, I have an HP Pavilion DV4 with Vista Home Premium. In my mother's computer, an XP, it's possible to get realtime playback through the computer from the mic in source. This made it possible to, say, play back through the computer sound from a portable CD player or MP3 player in real time, or hear oneself talking or singing through the computer speakers.
My laptop is rather bizzare, however. It has a built-in mic, and a mic input jack too. I can plug in a sound source (say, a mic or the like) and record and play back the sound just fine. However, the sound will not play live through the computer's speakers like it would on XP.
Typically, in Vista, someone can go to the Control Panel -> Sound -> Pick their speakers in Playback, right-click, Properties -> Levels Tab and choose the levels of playback from certain sources, be they line in, mic in, etc. This will cause sound from the sources to play from the computer in real time, like I want. However, all those sliders to choose those are gone. In the Levels tab, all I have is a "Speakers" tab, and "PC Speaker" under it. I've seen screenshots even, this is not normal. Typically to play mic input through the speakers, one just has to unmute the microphone from there. This does not work, since there is no button or slider to do so with, or any indication it's there at all.
My mic is obviously picking up sound, however; in the Recording window's Sound tab, my microphone sliders both move up and down from sound being captured through either the internal mic or the external one.
If it helps, the HP Pavilion DV4 comes with an IDT Audio program preinstalled. I feel it may be what's causing this. The microphone has similar issues within the program, and if the program is uninstalled, there is no sound whatsoever; it's totally disabled. The speakers don't even show up in Device Manager. In short, the HP Pavilion DV4 is dependent on that program to be able to play sound. If there's a way around this as well, it may solve the first problem, but I honestly don't know.
