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5 Free audio VU meter software for your Windows PC.

December 13, 2016

If you are like myself who likes to see their music move to an audio visual indicator like a VU meter, you should check out the following software. I have been using the these software for quite some time now and it’s always interesting to see some like of visual audio activities while the music is playing. These audio VU meter have been tested to run on Windows 2008 R2 which is the OS that I am currently using. All the Creative USB Sound Blaster sound card that I have is able to work with the 5 audio VU meter software that is listed below. The sound cards are: Sound Blaster E1, Sound Blaster Play, Sound Blaster Digital Music Premium HD, Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 and a cheap C-media chip-set USB sound card. The 5 free audio VU meter software in no particular order are: 1. Audio Level Meters by Paul Marshall ( http://www.darkwooddesigns.co.uk/pc2/meters.html ) Available in both Digital and Analog style meter and in a variety of designs to ...

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How to get the Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Pro THX working correctly on Windows Server 2016

January 13, 2020

How to get the Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Pro THX working correctly on Windows Server 2016 Not able to get the Creative Entertainment Console working after installing the drivers from the original driver CD on Windows Server 2016 for your Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Pro THX ? Although the Sound Blaster device is able to playback sounds without any issue, Creative Entertainment Console will just refuse to launch and complaint that the driver is not present. Looking at the Device Manager, there is no error or missing drivers. How do you go about fixing this issue? After some trial and error, I have managed to get it working. You will need to download the Windows 10 version of the driver from Creative support page, but not all revision of the Windows 10 driver will work. The version used in this blog post is the [5 Nov 19] release. To get the original CD's Creative Entertainment Console(version 3.00.64) working correctly in Windows 2016, do the...

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How to extract or demux audio or video from a mp4 file using VLC player

April 10, 2018

If you need to separate/demux the audio, video or both of the components without re-encoding from a mp4 file, here is a simple way to do it using the VLC player open source software (Download VLC from their official website: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html ). In this example, I will be using the VLC version 3.0.1 64 bit windows version of the VLC player to perform the extraction/demux. I believe you do not need to have the same exact version in order to do this. I have tested this method using an older 2.2.4 32bit windows version and it worked fine. The following example are for audio extraction. For video extraction, it should be somewhat similar. In order to extract the original format out from the mp4, the first step is to identify what are the individual stream made of. You can use the following method to identify them. - Load your source mp4 file into VLC player. - From the top menu, goto Tools>Codec Information. You shoul...

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Adding a WiFi adapter or dongle to your Windows Server 2019 server

August 28, 2020

This is useful when RJ45 ethernet connection is not available or when the network switch does not have any more spare ports to connect to. But getting WiFi ability enabled on Windows Server requires a little bit more work. First, I purchased an inexpensive USB WiFi adapter/dongle. This is an USB 2.0 802.11AC WiFi adapter/dongle. This thing is really small. Here’s a size comparison against a AA battery As this WiFi adapter uses the Realtek RTL8811AU chipset, the next step for me is to look for the driver on Realtek’s website. It did come with a driver CD, but I thought it would be better to install the latest driver from the website. There’s no driver specifically for Windows Server OS, however, there is a workaround. (Note: this WiFi adapter will work in a Windows 10 without additional driver installation). Here’s the link to the windows driver: https://www.realtek.com/en/component/zoo/category/rtl8811au-software The direct file (0002-Realtek_WindowsDr...

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