Controlling Volume of PC

[AWS]

Here's the problem:
I run my Wii audio and video into my TV. I then tell my TV to use an external speaker and I use the digital out of the TV and plug it into the digital in of my sound card. I used to be able to then control the volume of my Wii through my Sage remote (USB-UIRT / EventGhost) because it would change the Windows volume (so I think). It worked well. Now I upgraded the same hardware to Win 7. Now that I'm Win 7 I can no longer control the volume of the digital in when I'm using the Wii - I can hear just fine but the remote doesn't change the volume. The remote works fine for volume when I'm using Sage, but only Sage and that's sorta what I'd expect since that's what it is configured for.

This seems like a driver issue to me. So, maybe what I need to do is tell EventGhost to always adjust the Windows volume, not just the volume for Sage when playing back a Sage media file. Does anyone know the EventGhost setup on how to do that? Or better yet, does anyone have a similar type issue and they've found a solution? Can I tell Sage a different keystroke/maco for adjusting the volume that is also the same keystroke used to increase/decrease the Windows volume?

[gplasky]

SPDIF is pass thru and the Windows volume never controlled that. Not unless you used something like AC3 to also process the sound and then pass that off to the SPDIF. Digital sound volume is controlled by the device you are passing it to thru the SPDIF.

Gerry

[Fuzzy]

It's not a driver issue, but a change to the sound subsystem in win7. SageTV, now, doesn't change the 'master volume'. It instead, only affects the volume of SageTV itself. I'm pretty sure there is a way to control master volume from something like EventGhost, as there ARE HID commands for volume up, volume down, and mute, that windows will handle for master volume (I think sagetv will ALSO intercept these commands and adjust it's own volume as well).

In the end, i find it always much better to control the volume on the main playback device (receiver, TV, whatever) than on the PC itself. Though that's more difficult with the basic remote included with the HD200... the HD300 remote DOES contain TVVol+- buttons that can be trained for receivers, tv's, whatever...

[AWS]

Thanks for the ideas. I've been trying to use EventGhost (latest as of this post date) but am not finding the hooks/handles/whatever it's called. I'll keep looking and search that forum, too. Frustrating that it was working great from XP but now with W7 it has stopped.

I don't use a receiver - everything is handled via my Sage box. For now I've just disconnected the TOSLINK and am running sound out of the TV for Wii. LCD speaker sound is so lacking!