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Problem with sound not coming from headphones on CV1

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Hi

This is a difficult problem for me to solve or even trouble shoot as I don't have a CV1. Basically I have had reports that the sound isn't coming out of the Oculus headphones

Extract from bug report.
"Oh hey, so one thing I noticed w/ the CV1 is that it doesn't seem to switch audio properly (plays out of default device)."

It works fine on the DK2. Has anyone else had problems like this? A bit of a shot in the dark really without a CV1 to test on.

My setup:
Windows 7
Unity 5.40b10 (patched)
Video plugin AVpro for Windows (might be possible suspect)

Any ideas anyone? My program is Whirligig video player www.whirligig.xyz You can download it for free and test it from my site. If anyone here has a CV1 and can get it working with the sound please let me know so I can pass the information onto other users.

Fingers crossed people can help me.

All the best

Phil

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philedayAuthor

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Thanks for the feedback. I've been getting reports about this on my Steam page and it seems that you can manually switch over the audio. I think the steam app allows you to set what audio device you are going to play out of when playing a game so you can actually set it up with the Oculus and it will be done automatically. I still don't know for sure what the Oculus solution is but I'm confident there will be some work around one way or another :smile:

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vrdaveb

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Unity 5.3.4p1 and 5.4.0b12 have a concept of a "VR audio device", which they automatically redirect audio to when using the Rift. By default the VR audio device is the Rift's onboard codec, but you can set it to the Windows default device in the Oculus client application.

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philedayAuthor

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Thanks. I've had reports of this not working but since I've updated to 5.4.0b13 I haven't had any other reports. I guess at this stage it's early days and setups and new updates change things each time.

Thanks for the reply and information.

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Gabkicks

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is there a way to get sound out of oculus rift headphones for whirligig yet?

Oculus rift DK2, 4790k, R9 290 crossfire disabled, 16gb DDR3 1866, Windows 10 64-bit, 2 monitors.

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VRfriend2016X

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No there's not. I gave up on Whirligig and now use VIrtual desktop and i get sound! You can watch videos 180 , 360 SBS in virtual desktop so wy not give it a try

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vrdaveb

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You need to use 5.4.0b16 or newer to get support for automatic redirection of audio to the Rift.

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vrdaveb

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If you're using 5.3, the minimum supported version is 5.3.4p5 for this feature.