15.18.5 MacOS unusable due to Teamviewer MultiOutputDevice
Audio is what my client does for a business. The recent addition of Teamviewer MultiOutputDevice has made Teamviewer not only unusable but 100% disrupts the client workflow and has fully HALTED all work in many cases causing significant loss of product. There are NO controls within TeamViewer MacOS to control or adjust (or simply disable) this newly added MultiOutputDevice feature. I understand that this could be a very useful feature for many users however this feature forces a new virtual audio device to be created and forces ALL remote system audio to be sent to this source (with NO configuration options)
I have been rolling back this client to 14.7.48671 as quickly as possible (last available version as previous v15 are simply not available). note: rolling back is difficult remotely!! Unless there is a quick solution I will have to find another remote access platform (and the client might demand this regardless).
Solutions?
Answers
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You can turn it off in Preferences->Remote_control->"Play computer sounds and music" (middle of that screen, just below the dividing line) and restart the machine. See next comment if you have uninstalled and still have that output device showing up.
I'm sorry I can't post a screenshot. The forum is refusing to let me post images because my account is so new.
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In one of the subdirectories of "/Library/Audio/Plug Ins" is a driver named "TVRemoteAudio.driver" .
Even removing that doesn't fix anything, but maybe if you've uninstalled TeamViewer, removing this driver after that could fix it.
I'm super-displeased by this design decision. I have a computer that we have always-running TeamViewer on, but then users can't hear audio without switching back the audio device _each and every time they log in_.
The only reason we have always-running TeamViewer on that machine is because those users aren't terribly computer-savvy.
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After nearly 2 years of annoyance: is there any news regarding this?
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