[Windows] AudioEngine testers - Windows platform only

(2012-05-12 03:31)Wanilton Wrote:  Thanks DDDamian, work fine...thanks..

Cheers Wanilton, and thx for the new translates

(2012-05-12 04:07)DDDamian Wrote:  

(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

can't wait till there's a new nightly so i can test a fresh portable mode version

(2012-05-11 15:23)DDDamian Wrote:  

(2012-05-11 11:33)minimoe Wrote:  I installed the nightly of May 10th and I have problems when playing FLACs with PAPlayer. The music plays fine but XBMC becomes very sluggish, almost unresponsive.

The file is 88.2kHz but plays as 48kHz.



1.76fps is a good number, most of the time it's around 0.50fps.

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.

I'm happy to report that today's (May 12th) nightly doesn't crash, doesn't crawl and it sends 88.2kHz to my AVR

Yup, the May 12th nightly doesn't crash and it updates my library again...
Thanks!!

i also don´t get start up crash and it updates library. but one crash came later

11:33:49 T:1168 ERROR: CJobWorker::Process error processing job cacheimage
11:33:50 T:14392 ERROR: Previous line repeats 9 times.
11:33:50 T:14392 ERROR: CJobWorker::Process error processing job
11:33:50 T:15124 ERROR: exception in CApplication::Render()
11:33:50 T:15124 ERROR: m_pD3DDevice->BeginScene() failed. 8876086C - D3DERR_INVALIDCALL (Invalid call)
..
11:33:53 T:15124 ERROR: m_pD3DDevice->BeginScene() failed. 8876086C - D3DERR_INVALIDCALL (Invalid call)
11:33:53 T:15124 ERROR: exception in CApplication::FrameMove()
11:33:53 T:15124 ERROR: exception in CApplication::Render()
11:33:53 T:15124 ERROR: exception in CApplication::FrameMove()
11:33:53 T:15124 ERROR: CApplication::FrameMove(), too many exceptions
11:33:53 T:14696 ERROR: CJobWorker::Process error processing job cacheimage
11:34:36 T:1168 ERROR: Previous line repeats 1344 times.
11:34:36 T:1168 ERROR: CJobWorker::Process error processing job
then crash

its a clean installation

don't know why,
but this one crashes also with me with a clean stand alone version

DEBUG (enabled in advancedsettings.xml)
also got a crash .dmp if needed

May 12 nightly seems to work here. I still see errors in the log file though, but it doesn't crash.

The confluence skin is still broken (background images for the different main menu items) don't appear. Other
skins work fine.

After a quick test on my PC, next stop is my HTPC.

script.randomitems causes errors and service.watchdog prevent xbmc from exit. after deleting it works well. now i check this with usb-cec usage

(2012-05-12 12:39)loekf Wrote:  The confluence skin is still broken (background images for the different main menu items) don't appear. Other
skins work fine.

This is no bug - it's by intention. Switching backgrounds per menu item have been removed from confluence to make it snappier on weak HW.

(2012-05-12 01:43)DDDamian Wrote:  

(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.

Thanks DDDamien,
Now i've got the nightly running ok and can see how the settings configured, can i rephrase my question?
With "Optical/Coax" selected in settings, assuming hardware supports the formats etc, will AE pass 96kHz 2-channel or is it locked to either 44.1 or 48kHz over Optical/Coax?
And if it will work at the higher rate, will it match the source file sample rate or reclock? I saw the discussion on advancedsettings.xml switch to disable 44.1>48kHz.

Given the limitations of my AVR (no HDMI audio) my best hope is to be able to play 2-ch 96khz Flac over spdif (which my AVR will accept!) or to pass to appropriate DAC.

Thanks and great work.
Dave