I need to capture audio with VLC from the default capture device set for the system in Windows. If I set the audio device in the capture dialog to "Default", it seems to capture from the first audio device in the list rather than the one configured to be the default on the system.
Removing :dshow-adev= from the command line doesn't help either.
How can I get VLC to capture from the default system device?
The DirectShow framework does not use the settings specified by Windows for default devices, therefore changing your options from the Windows sound settings will not affect DirectShow.
VLC is actually just enumerating the devices on the system and selecting the first audio device it finds. You can just select the specific device that you want to use from the drop-down, or alternatively you can disable the audio devices you don't want to use until the one you want is first in the list.
