Need help delagating audio playback to two different sound cards

[ITTom80]

I have two monitors plugged into one Windows XP PC (in sig). I also have two sound cards on this pc with 2 sets of speakers, (motherboard sound plugged into a 15" LCD w/ integrated speakers, and a PCI Sound Blaster Audigy 2 plugged into my headphones) .

Basically, I want to play games on my primary monitor/headphones, while simultaneously playing a DVD on the secondary monitor/speakers for my wife/kids/guests/etc, without having the sounds crossing-over (hence the need for a second sound card).

While windows recognizes both sound devices, I cannot seam to segregate the sound output for each device, I must specify one device to handle ALL sound output. There is a voice tab in the windows audio control panel where I can specify a second device to handle voice recording/playback, but I want to take this one step further and dedicate the second device for other applications such as a DVD player, and this is where I am having trouble.

Not really sure what the best method is for accomplishing this, but I was hoping someone here could steer me in the right direction. Would appreciate any advice, thanks.

 

[ashmelev75]

It depends on applications. Sometimes you cannot specify audio output, so the sound goes to a default device, but sometimes you can and here's how to handle it:

For example, Light Alloy can play DVDs, video and music and you can specify what sound output it should use. So point it to sound card A with speakers connected and for all other apps set sound card B with headphones as default in Control Panel/Sound.