[Windows] AudioEngine testers - Windows platform only

Building now!!! Well done guys... bloody great to see.

One question Damian, i compiled frodo master with AE, and for me exclusive mode disappeared in audio settings, and I don´t have string for settings DTS-HD audio, it´s ok for you I have one button active, but not string...
Do you know ID strig for DTS-HD capable receiver.

(2012-05-10 01:01)Wanilton Wrote:  One question Damian, i compiled frodo master with AE, and for me exclusive mode disappeared in audio settings, and I don´t have string for settings DTS-HD audio, it´s ok for you I have one button active, but not string...
Do you know ID strig for DTS-HD capable receiver.

I think there was talk of getting rid of shared mode, so only exclusive is used, hence no need for the setting option. Maybe it's due to that.

Cheers

@liquidskin76 - thx mate - a lot of lost sleep involved, but a huge satisfaction for myself, Memphiz, TopFS, Gimli and of course the main dude gnif

@wanilton - yes - we pulled wasapi shared mode - it was incompatible with our method of streaming audio and does nothing that Exclusive Mode or DirectSound don't do better. There was a major change to the way strings are stored/submitted put in place by alanwww1 who handles that, so something happened during that change. There's a thread "Attention all translators" if you're interested and strings can now be submitted via git.

I'll get the ID string for you in a sec and add to this post. EDIT: it's string #407. Actually there is one there already I can use #347 - I just have to patch a line in the code - will push change in a minute.

DDDamian, I translated core xbmc for portuguese Brazil, i know how work, thanks, for info.

Wanilton

(2012-05-10 02:33)Wanilton Wrote:  DDDamian, I translated core xbmc for portuguese Brazil, i know how work, thanks, for info.

Wanilton

Heh - you're the man for the Portuguese-Brazil translates Will you update the .po file then for git? Just do a pull request and I'll leave the code setting at #407.

Yes, I send to git all strings for AE use, before merge, alan commited recently my po file, and DTS HD is 407 id in my po file too, but i believe the trouble is in ae code, not in po file. I try put id 347 in po file and strings.xml too, but same results of my previous image, no string in pt br or english for DTS-HD.

Nightly builds will now include AE, so I won't be posting more builds here, but starting 05/10/2012 you can get them with AE from:

http://mirrors.xbmc.org/nightlies/win32/

The list of bugfixes is pretty lengthy, but I believe we've nailed down the one's you guys have brought up recently, and of course we welcome new bug-reports and general feedback on good things too. The three development threads will likely be closed shortly and new one's started in the more general help and support areas of the forum.

The issue with crashing on receiver input switching should be gone now, as well as the dvd menu crash, to name two fixes in the last couple of days.

We've been working on a seperate branch for next month's merge window as this one closes tomorrow. Bug-fixes can be pushed to master any time though and will continue to be the first priority. Gnif has written a new class and methods for handling DSP's (digital signal processors) and I have written two so far - a headphones enhancement and a low-pass filter for subs when upmixing. Next is a DRC (dynamic range compression) feature for better voice clarity similar to a "night mode" on many receivers, making movies less "loud" while allowing you to hear speech better.

We also have a lot to do in terms of documentation (the Wiki for one) and a better GUI settings page, hopefully over the next month or so.

Thanks for all the testing work so far, and hope you enjoy our efforts as much as we do

Absolutely brilliant news - well done to all involved. Will try out shortly.

Very nice to see this finally getting merged with master!

@DDDamian: How will the DRC work when playing bitstreamable formats? Will enabling DRC switch it to LPCM? In my opinion that would be great, I use night mode (called "Adaptive DRC" on my reciever) a lot when watching late but it's hidden deep inside the menues on my reciever and I tend to forget it on (which I don't want), so the ability to do this in software would be awesome!