DirectX Audio set volume errors

[wengang]

This is a program I wrote few years ago. always worked fine.
formatted and reinstalled Win7, .NET 2003, etc this weekend and now the program finds error anywhere I try to set the volume on audio playback

References have been made, code:
Imports Microsoft.DirectX
Imports Microsoft.DirectX.DirectInput
Imports Microsoft.DirectX.AudioVideoPlayback
Imports Microsoft.DirectX.DirectSound

Dim Music as Audio = Nothing

The old code read:
Music = New Audio (........)
Music.Volume = -1000 'the error is here

I went through the code and remmed all .Volume lines and the program works fine, music included.

Some change in DirectX? Change in Win7? I don't recall ever getting this running on Win7 before, but this format/reinstall was the first time I went back into the source code.

Right now the app works, but the question is, how can I set the volume?
Setting volume is a user option when the app is running.
Thanks.
G

[drakray]

This thread is almost the only one that talk about this problem with directX and VB.Net
The code line that get me the error is
vAudio.Volume = -5000
where vAudio = videoMedia.Audio and videoMedia = New Video(videoPath)
I tried with videoMedia.Audio.Volume = -5000, and it get me to the very same error
I got the very same problem, which return an "Error in the application. -2147467263 (E_NOTIMPL) at Microsoft.DirectX.AudioVideoPlayback.Audio.set_Volume(Int32 value)" when launch without debugger, and "Error in the application" when catch in a try.

Can someone answer this "old" post, since it's the first one on Google result with "vb.net directx audio set volume error"

[drakray]

I have found the problem with the Audio definition.
You cannot set the volume if the audio media is not already playing.

I hope this can help other people.

[drakray]

Code is:

aMedia.Play
aMedia.Volume = -5000 ' no error

But even if the video media IS playing, you get an error when you try to set its Volume.

Code is:

vMedia.Play
vMedia.Audio.Volume = -5000 ' "Error in the application" here