Win500 PRO-197 For DonS

[buddrousa]

Don I am playing with the scanner at work remote server and laptop in the same room and I hear the scanner and all other noises in the room on the remote how is the audio captured at the scanner and why would room audio be sent by the server.

[DonS]

Win500 captures the selected "audio input" and streams it to the Win500 Remote Client app. If you have a "microphone" also enabled on the PC where Win500 is running, it's possible you'll capture that audio, as well.

In Windows' "audio properties" (e.g. right-click on the audio control icon in the system tray, by the clock), you may want to disable the "microphone" input in "recording properties".

[K8PBX]

Originally Posted by DonS

Win500 captures the selected "audio input" and streams it to the Win500 Remote Client app. If you have a "microphone" also enabled on the PC where Win500 is running, it's possible you'll capture that audio, as well.

It's not just "possible", it's true.

Recently, when I was testing the Remote Server functionality of Win500, a friend of mine was using the client to listen to one of my PSR-600's remotely. He called me on the phone at one point because he wondered why he was hearing my TV audio and other sounds in the background. When my phone rang, he heard that too! We quickly found that the built in mic in my laptop was enabled - passing all the room audio along in the stream.

As Don advises above, make sure you disable the microphone input on your PC.

[buddrousa]

That was it I have had this laptop for a year and never noticed it had a built in mike thanks Don.