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If you have played at least a few rounds of TF2 or any other game, you would be familiar with the common practive of people playing music and sound clips over the microphone. I wanted to know if there is any known way to do so with CrossOver Games?

You have two possibilities: either use speakers loud enough and hold them to your microphone (not adviced :D) or just configure your soundcard to record from a different source than your actual microphone. I guess with virtual mixers you can even have both.

Buy one of those audio cables that has a 1/8th inch jack on either side and place one end in your "audio in", and one in the desired audio source. You can use the same computer if you use the headphone jack as the audio source, since with TF2 you cannot hear what is being recorded by your own mic. Definitely do not do this for any application that plays the sound from your "audio in" through the speakers as you will create really bad feedback.

Samuel Bell wrote:

Buy one of those audio cables that has a 1/8th inch jack on either
side and place one end in your "audio in", and one in the desired
audio source. You can use the same computer if you use the
headphone jack as the audio source, since with TF2 you cannot hear
what is being recorded by your own mic. Definitely do not do this
for any application that plays the sound from your "audio in"
through the speakers as you will create really bad feedback.

I have thought of that, however I think I'm better off trying to get the HLSS to work.

HLSS is better, but its probably not going to work as well as the physical cables for the short term anyways.

I notice in linux with the latest wine-devel releases, the Audio tab in winecfg
has grown an extra driver option -- the JACK audio driver. If that indeed works
'as expected' then in -theory- at least you should be able to patch/mix in any
other audio source(s) using a JACK frontend...ie; qjackctl is a good example...
to control what inputs hook to which outputs etc etc...such maybe an effective
work-around for issues like this (perhaps that's why wine's grown a jack driver?)
...supposing of course it's gong to filter down into crossover's wine build someday..

Anyhow.../end my 2cents ;)

Cheers!

Artist Formally Known as Dot wrote:

I notice in linux with the latest wine-devel releases, the Audio tab
in winecfg
has grown an extra driver option -- the JACK audio driver. If that
indeed works
'as expected' then in -theory- at least you should be able to
patch/mix in any
other audio source(s) using a JACK frontend...ie; qjackctl is a good
example...
to control what inputs hook to which outputs etc etc...such maybe an
effective
work-around for issues like this (perhaps that's why wine's grown a
jack driver?)
...supposing of course it's gong to filter down into crossover's
wine build someday..

Anyhow.../end my 2cents ;)

Cheers!

Okay, I'm a noob, how would one access the audiocfg to access the JACK audio driver and how can I get it to work for TF2?

Forrest M. wrote:

Okay, I'm a noob, how would one access the audiocfg to access the
JACK audio driver and how can I get it to work for TF2?

Hi,

I haven't played with this new wine audio driver at all - I'm not
even sure if it's working to tell you the truth, just that I noticed
this feature addition...

...in any event, if that jack driver in wine does work the way I
know jack_audio works, then any sound configuration will be done
in the jack audio layer, not in crossover/wine (apart from enabling
the jack driver in winecfg)...so...the best idea I think would be
to familiarize yourself with jack...see;

http://jackaudio.org/faq

If I'm using jack, my preferred GUI is qjackctl ;

http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net/

Cheers!

Do you know if there is any equivalent feature in Mac OS X? I know that it has a fairly comprehensive unix shell system available for use, but I haven't delved much into the advanced aspects of it.

Samuel Bell wrote:

Do you know if there is any equivalent feature in Mac OS X? I know
that it has a fairly comprehensive unix shell system available for
use, but I haven't delved much into the advanced aspects of it.

Hi,

There is a Mac port of jackd...see;

http://jackaudio.org/download

As for a GUI frontend to jack for the Mac, I cannot say ;
you might have to google for that one...

Cheers!

Thanks, I'll check that out.