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RE: [Windows] AudioEngine testers - Windows platform only - ix400 - 2012-04-26 22:18
... yes, it actually shows on the screen that it is buffering. Playback switches to 'pause' while buffering and the status bar pops up.
I'll send you a log tomorrow. Too tired now. Bedtime.
Chris
RE: [Windows] AudioEngine testers - Windows platform only - gnif - 2012-04-26 22:33
I FINALLY FIXED IT with Anassi's help that is 
.buffering issue is a concern, so yeah, a log would be great for that one
RE: [Windows] AudioEngine testers - Windows platform only - loekf - 2012-04-26 22:50
Ok, my $0.02:
I tried a lot of MKVs in my movie collection.
- Dolby TrueHD: ok
- AC3/DD: ok
- DTS: ok. I noticed one movie, where audio disappears at the beginning for perhaps 1 sec after you start playback. So when you
hit play, you see the receiver lock on to the DTS stream, you hear audio, then there's a small drop, but then audio returns. Receiver
stays in lock all the time. Maybe it's the movie. Also saw one case where the screen is blank (black) for one sec after 10 secs, audio plays fine. Maybe
it's stream related (was a HDTV "rip"). The difficult streams from last time, the Matrix, the Harry Potter one plays ok.
- DTS-ES. I found one movie, Star Wars Ep1, with DTS-ES, where the video is choppy. Audio is ok, but video is choppy. As far I can
remember this one played fine with the previous build I tested. The other 5 (Ep2 - Ep6) play ok, they also have DTS-ES tracks.
- DTS-HD MA: ok
Also tried some TV shows:
- AVI with AC3: ok
- MP4 with AAC: ok
I have the option adjust display refresh rate to match video always enabled.
This is on my Llano A6 3650 HTPC with Catalyst 12.3 (latest) installed. WASAPI + AMD HDMI selected as device for both audio output and
passthrough (saw there's a seperate option... why ?).
I will put the Ep1 MKV into my public Dropbox folder:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9177341/Star%20Wars%20-%20EP1%20-%201080p%20-%20DTS-ES.mkv
Uploading now..... 30 mins left
RE: [Windows] AudioEngine testers - Windows platform only - HeresJohnny - 2012-04-26 22:53
There's one more thing I've noticed with DDDamian's latest build, but it was probably there before. It's very subtle, yet strange: On my Nvidia ION platform, there are actually 2 WASAPI output devices (I've copied the exact names with spaces):
Audio Output Device:
WASAPI: NVIDIA HDMI OUT (NVIDIA High Definition Audio), HDMI - NVIDIA HDMI OUT (NVIDIA High Definition Audio)
Passthrough Output Device
WASAPI:HDMI - NVIDIA HDMI OUT (NVIDIA High Definition Audio)
Note the missing space for the Passthrough Output Device.
RE: [Windows] AudioEngine testers - Windows platform only - DDDamian - 2012-04-26 23:01
@HeresJohnny - those are nothing to worry about, will fix. Also, per your post in other thread, we'll consider adding a tag to not resample 44.1->48khz over spdif
@loekf - will test the sample - glad the other two play now - was an issue with parsing the DTS in that particular format. By and large though sounds pretty good
@gnif - woot! Anssi the martian strikes again.
RE: [Windows] AudioEngine testers - Windows platform only - HeresJohnny - 2012-04-26 23:09
(2012-04-26 23:01)DDDamian Wrote: @HeresJohnny - those are nothing to worry about, will fix
This might actually be something my receiver is doing since it provides signal passthrough when powered down or when in power save mode. I love my Yammy
Dunno if it could be a problem, too, since the output device seems to change, I just checked. Then again, it probably won't change while something is being processed.
RE: [Windows] AudioEngine testers - Windows platform only - loekf - 2012-04-26 23:14
(2012-04-26 23:01)DDDamian Wrote: @loekf - will test the sample - glad the other two play now - was an issue with parsing the DTS in that particular format. By and large though sounds pretty good
Thanks, the file is now in my Dropbox public folder
RE: [Windows] AudioEngine testers - Windows platform only - DDDamian - 2012-04-26 23:37
@loekf - thx
@HeresJohnny - no worries - it's just a user-friendly tag, we're just not consistent in applying the prefix or saving the one with or without additional info in the string.
RE: [Windows] AudioEngine testers - Windows platform only - HeresJohnny - 2012-04-26 23:53
I confirm what others found before me: NVIDIA ION will play neither TrueHD nor DTS-HD. By untagging the capabilities for DTS-HD XBMC tries to reproduce the DTS core, but it's choppy. Untagging TrueHD still gives no sound (should there be an AC3 core?). DTS 24/96 works nicely though, I've tried Depeche Mode and Genesis.
RE: [Windows] AudioEngine testers - Windows platform only - DDDamian - 2012-04-27 00:12
Not familiar with the ION, but the device enumeration now added (and enabled in log with debugging on or set to level 1) should show whether support is there or not.
Untagging DTS-MA should play DTS core, and if it's choppy we would need a sample of the file.
Untagging TrueHD will force decode to multichannel LPCM, not to AC3, maybe we can look at that for audio devices that don't support mc lpcm.
And yep, DTS 24/96 sounds great!