ReactOS Audio Service (audiosrv.exe) ==================================== This is intended to operate in a similar manner to how the Windows Audio Service does. NOTE: The service filename is audiosrv.dll on Windows XP. This shouldn't have any impact on functionality. AudioSrv on Windows creates a mapped file at: Global\mmGlobalPnpInfo The ReactOS audio device list lives at: Global\AudioDeviceList This file appears to contain a list of devices that WinMM accesses and subsequently passes to wdmaud.drv It is not necessary to duplicate the exact structure of this mapped file, since it appears to only be used internally by Windows components. The ROS Audio Service (RosAudioSrv) is intended to be able to run alongside the Windows Audio Service on XP/Vista, so it should be possible to test in a "known working environment" ;) It will create a mutex, to: 1) Allow synchronization when accessing the device list 2) Provide a simple method of identifying if RosAudioSrv is running (It might be worth using an event to notify WinMM when things are happening?) The intention is to make RosAudioSrv receive PnP notifications for relevant audio devices, and also let AudioSrv in Windows do this. Then it should be possible to create a small application that imitates WinMM's actions :) Current Status ============== AudioSrv registers for device notifications and obtains a list of the current audio devices in the system (devices registered against the KSCATEGORY_AUDIO interface). ReactOS does not currently have RegisterDeviceNotification implemented, so for the moment this service considers the failure of this API call to be non-fatal and will proceed without device event notification. This behaviour will be amended in a future revision (ie once this API call is implemented!) Testing the Service =================== The service can be installed on Windows XP (possibly also Vista) like so: sc create RosAudioSrv net start RosAudioSrv ...and can be removed like so: net stop RosAudioSrv sc delete RosAudioSrv You can view a list of the currently available devices (device list is identical to the one offered by Windows' own AudioSrv) by running my READER.EXE test utility, available in the following package: http://stuff.silverblade.co.uk/reactos/sharedlist.tar.gz That's all for now, folks ;) Andrew Greenwood September 2007