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> 3.5mm does the one thing it should do, transmit the audio signal, without all kinds of unwanted software side effects I have an HP laptop with Win10 and it s
by perryizgr8 6y ago
> 3.5mm does the one thing it should do, transmit the audio signal, without all kinds of unwanted software side effects
I have an HP laptop with Win10 and it shows all the kinds of problems you described and more... with a standard 3.5mm jack. Youtube/VLC will freeze as soon as I plug in a headphone, Skype/Zoom will crash and end my call. Some games will continue sending audio through the laptop speakers, and only switch if I restart the game. Others will just stop outputting any audio.
I really did not think this was possible, I thought the headphone jack was just a physical switch that sends signals one way instead of the other.
Software engineers can and will find a way to fuck up your life, even if the problem has been solved for a century now.
- vladvasiliu 6y agoI have an HP desktop I bought for photography work and I have the weird behavior described, too. I've found that if I uninstall HP Audio Controls or whatever it's called it leaves me alone and the windows output selector does a perfectly fine job of switching outputs. However, I mostly use it connected to an external USB DAC and it works (mostly) ok.