2012-02-06, 23:20
Alz2605 Wrote:Any suggestions? I don't like the idea on missing out on this great feature.
Got enough horsepower? Try syncing to the video clock under video settings.
fezster Wrote:Do you mean in the Windows Sound control panel ? I'm pretty certain I should be able to leave that as stereo, as WASAPI should bypass it.
voip-ninja Wrote:Actually I don't believe that will work. Before I went in and explicitly configured my audio for 5.1, I was only getting stereo output from multi-channel tracks on my i3 setup even though I had chosen the WASAPI source in XBMC for audio playback.
As soon as I went in and told the WASAPI driver in the control panel that I had 5.1 speakers, everything just worked.
WASAPI exlusive mode *should* be independent of the Windows channel setup. What is important is to check "Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device" and "Give exclusive mode applications priority" in the Windows sound settings under "Advanced". This is likely the cause of the error in the log posted above (against forum etiquette! pls use pastebin & post link - sry had to mention).
On my rig multichannel plays fine on all channels regardless of the channel layout in Windows, which is correct.
@Daniela - agreed - it's a shame the FLAC decoder is currently 16bit - needs rewriting as part of AE as well. I have not confirmed if this is dithered down correctly from 24-16 either. I know in AE the dithering code has just been implemented.