Well in VLC you don't have to use "default" for device. But it's just going to use whatever device Windows has found for default, same as you'd find in the Windows Sound Applet. As far as selecting a certain driver, there is no way -that I know of- to do that in VLC.
Then can Wasapi be assigned as the default driver in windows?
It's showing his Denon, and the driver used. It's the Intel Display driver, which is also the sound driver because he is using an intel device , I assume the pc has an Intel cpu with graphics so the motherboard out will use the Intel driver.
Yes, but there may be a way (as with Kodi) to specify the Denon AVR and the Wasapi driver. I think I read the Wasapi exclusive mode needs to be allowed in the VLC advanced settings.
There may be, but I have not found it yet.
If they are different drivers, only one can be the default
I explained that. If I'm using the mobo hdmi out, that uses the Intel driver. If I use the nvidia hdmi out, that's the nvidia driver. which ever one is active is the "default" driver.
Yes.
According to the article I posted it's somewhere in there. There is a flag to enable Wasapi exclusive mode.
Why not? It passes Atmos just fine.
