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I have been using XBMC for all my media center needs and it has been working flawlessly. I love the platform. However, I have tried the PVR build and the various plugins to make it functional with a tuner I recently hooked up and have not had a lot of success. Since I couldn't get the PVR working how I wanted, I opted to use Windows Media Center instead to record live shows and then access them as part of my library via XBMC. It works great and easily (easy enough for the wife to manage it) with one exception:
WMC requires that my AMD HDMI output has the "Allow Applications to Take Exclusive Control of this device" option UNCHECKED in the properties menu in order to run and subsequently record live TV for me when applicable. However, XBMC requires that my AMD HDMI output has the "Allow Applications to Take Exclusive Control of this device" option to be CHECKED in the properties menu in order to run and output audio.
Obviously this conflict creates a problem for me and I wasn't sure if there was an alternative for me to use with XBMC or another way to get WMC to work. I would be willing to use another application besides WMC if it was as convenient and didn't have this conflict, but I'm not interested in messing with the XBMC PVR build again right now.
Is anyone able to help me with this issue? I would really appreciate it and frankly, these forums have been fantastic about providing help thus far. Thanks guys!
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You can select a DirectSound device for XBMC, rather than a WASAPI device. This is a short-term option while we work out a way to allow XBMC to cede control of an audio device to external players when using the WASAPI driver.
System: XBMC HTPC with HDMI WASAPI & AudioEngine - Denon AVR-3808CI - Denon DVD-5900 Universal Player - Denon DCM-27 CD-Changer
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Unfortunately after trying this today, it didn't seem to work. XBMC plays while not having the "Exclusive control" option checked, but WMC still reads as something is wrong and won't play files. It seems like the two won't work simultaneously. Any other potential workarounds? Is there another PVR option I could use that works well, besides WMC? Maybe another option wouldn't run into this conflict?
I really appreciate you trying to help.
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I thought I was the only one having this issue. Yeah, I use WMC for all PVR needs and 75% of the time I run it, there's no sound. I have to close and reopen it 3-4 times before it works again. Very frustrating. It does appear to be that conflict you speak of. I'm only posting because I'm also hoping for a useful reply to fix this problem. The weird thing is that I feel this is a fairly new issue, it didn't always do this.
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Are you selecting a DirectSound device/driver in Settings>System>Audio Output?
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I edited my registry for the Integration application and pointed it to the correct location of XBMC on my machine and that resolved the issue with the software starting correctly. From there, I could successfully launch XBMC from WMC. Nevertheless, anything I tried to play in XBMC still gave the audio initialization error due to the same conflict as discussed.
The only reason I can think of for why your build is currently working, bluray, is due to your using TMT5 for an external player and I have no idea how to set all that up.
Main HTPC: i5-2500k Sandybridge 3.3Ghz - ASRock Z68 - Radeon HD6950 2GB - 8GB G.Skill Ripjaws - 64GB Crucial M4 SSD - 500GB HDD storage
Master Bedroom: G530 - ASRock H67M - 4GB Kingston HyperX - 160GB Seagate 2.5"
Living Room: Xbox 360 Media Center Extender