Determining Nonstandard Format Support
To see whether a device supports a particular format (standard or nonstandard), you can call the waveOutOpen function with the WAVE_FORMAT_QUERY flag. The following example uses this technique to determine whether a waveform-audio device supports a specified format.
// Determines whether the specified waveform-audio output device
// supports a specified waveform-audio format. Returns
// MMSYSERR_NOERROR if the format is supported, WAVEERR_BADFORMAT if
// the format is not supported, and one of the other MMSYSERR_ error
// codes if there are other errors encountered in opening the
// specified waveform-audio device.
MMRESULT IsFormatSupported(LPWAVEFORMATEX pwfx, UINT uDeviceID)
{
return (waveOutOpen(
NULL, // ptr can be NULL for query
uDeviceID, // the device identifier
pwfx, // defines requested format
NULL, // no callback
NULL, // no instance data
WAVE_FORMAT_QUERY)); // query only, do not open device
}
This technique for determining nonstandard format support also applies to waveform-audio input devices. The only difference is that the waveInOpen function is used in place of waveOutOpen to query for format support.
To determine whether a particular waveform-audio data format is supported by any of the waveform-audio devices in a system, use the technique illustrated in the previous example, but specify the WAVE_MAPPER constant for the uDeviceID parameter.