[Windows] AudioEngine testers - Windows platform only

(2012-05-11 15:23)DDDamian Wrote:  Heh - this was a result of taking the Exclusive mode / Shared mode button out of the gui before actually eliminating the code for shared mode. Has been fixed now.

Great, thanks. Now I need a version that doesn't crash

@DDDamian: the funny thing is that I see what you say, ie. no GUI sounds until after first playback, but only in DEBUG mode (inside Visual Studio). When I run the release build, it crashes immediately after/at the splash screen. Here's my log: http://pastebin.com/7mN9u4uV

(2012-05-11 15:31)DDDamian Wrote:  Hi there - this one I'm aware of - it's an issue with trying to initialize DirectSound before the application window has been registered. It won't lead to a crash, but it does mean no gui sounds until you play your first item. Will address this today.

Just one thing - log snippets are only really helpful if you're 100% sure the snippet shows the cause, always best to post a full log via pastebin. Then I have the full picture, and if the problem is outside of the snippet you post I can find it. Thanks for the feedback - all is appreciated.

@Voyager - yep - it's only in release builds - have it narrowed down now to a few commits out of 50 or so since it yesterday Since we're in master now, a bug can come from a few dozen devs and many many more commits that when it was in seperate branches. Makes debugging a general thread crash (esp in release mode only) very fun

@minimoe - heh, fair enuff

This maybe interesting for you DDDamian:
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/13017

jmarshall put you on cc. (crash on start, sound intialization)

(2012-05-11 20:18)PKOneTwo Wrote:  This maybe interesting for you DDDamian:
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/13017

jmarshall put you on cc. (crash on start, sound intialization)

Thx PKOneTwo - that's the one I'm chasing down here.

Question:
What would AE make of one of these devices.....
Musiland Monitor 01

They seem to deliver 24 bit/192kHz over optical/coax using clever ASIO and WASAPI drivers. People have had great success using with Foobar2k outputing hi def audio to DACs via this device. If Windows sees this device with supported modes up to 192kHz, will AE be able to operate at >48kHz?

My AVR doesn't have HDMI audio support. This is my only route to HD audio.

Thanks
Dave

(2012-05-12 01:23)parrydave Wrote:  Question:
What would AE make of one of these devices.....
Musiland Monitor 01

They seem to deliver 24 bit/192kHz over optical/coax using clever ASIO and WASAPI drivers. People have had great success using with Foobar2k outputing hi def audio to DACs via this device. If Windows sees this device with supported modes up to 192kHz, will AE be able to operate at >48kHz?

My AVR doesn't have HDMI audio support. This is my only route to HD audio.

Thanks
Dave

I don't know anything about that device, but it's driver would have to decode DTS-MA/TrueHD for that to work, as well as to report those as supported modes to Windows. 24/192 is what you need for those formats, but you also need a decoder somewhere that would change the stream from these encoded formats to PCM. AE can decode TrueHD losslessly to PCM, so that's fine, but not DTS-MA. Your money might be better put to a receiver that supports those formats.

Okay folks - issue found - there was a commit reverting some files from a seperate project in master to refactor XBMC's thread handling - commit 43bb6e1486dd905fa4b99b4a3eb48350cb2ac56a.

I've pushed a revert to master to fix, and Dixon Butts has tested and crash is gone (thanks for the quick help there mate).

If you build your own, master is fine again. If you use nightlies tomorrows will be back to normal. It was a hard one to find as there have been around 40 commits to master since the merge, but it's all good again.

Thx for the reports.

Thanks DDDamian, work fine...thanks..

(2012-05-11 20:18)PKOneTwo Wrote:  This maybe interesting for you DDDamian:
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/13017

jmarshall put you on cc. (crash on start, sound intialization)

Thx - replied on ticket and closed