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Don't really know if this still relates to ActiveAE though (admitted I haven't tried using SoftAE), but found out about two things regarding PAPlayer:
- MP3/CUE: After playback advances over two CUE items (e.g. let playback run from track 1 to 3), setting the playback speed (fast forward, rewind) doesn't work anymore. When using the GUI/fullscreen music popup, clicking the ffwd/rew buttons doesn't change the playback speed anymore, the play/pause button however changes to the play symbol (as if it really was fastforwarding).
- This one seems really strange, and could reproduce in passthrough (HDMI) mode so far yet: When starting playback of a folder with a bunch of DTS-WAV files (complete album, one file per track), it plays normally until the end, and then instead of advancing to the next file in the folder (track1->track2), it advanced over multiple files, eventually advancing beyond the last file, so after the first track playback stops. When this happens, looking at the GUI it seems PAPlayer does open each file, but then does some decisions, closes it and advances further. As initially mentioned, this does not happen when letting XBMC decode the audio and output as two-channel (audio mode: analog).
Probably unrelated to ActiveAE (have verified this one with SoftAE):
- Assume "audio mode: analog" and two channels: Starting a movie/video (using DVDPlayer) containing a DTS audio track, one can hear a short (40ms or so) noise, as if audio wasn't decoded, or if a buffer wasn't initialised before it first was sent to the audio output. Guess the latter is the case, as every consecutive play of the same file makes a different "noise". During experimenting with this, I'm sure I also noticed this with an AC3 audio track, but couldn't reproduce last time I checked (after loads of ActiveAE went into master).
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My ticket, #14211, was closed yesterday by Martijn with a note that it could not be reproduced. Directsound releases, but XBMC WASAPI still does not release with Alpha 7 or the latest nightly, which I just installed. MPC-HC tells me audio device is already in use with wasapi. With directsound, sometimes it releases immediately and others it loops the last chunk of audio for a few seconds before releasing just like it did before.
Either way, the bug is definitely still there on Windows. Should I submit a new ticket or will someone reopen it? I'll upload a new log either way.
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Retry with current nightly and disable the "Stream noise when idle" option.
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WASAPI definitely releases now as I tested it a few weeks ago.
I can't remember exactly how I had my XBMC configured, but it could be that GUI sounds may also need to be disabled.
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fritsch
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Every menu click reenables them ...that is intended. 10 seconds later, it goes off again. If you don't want it, suspend AudioEngine, via the python, whatever api.
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Stream silence on idle off helps sometimes, but only if the video I am sending to the external does not have immediately sound. If it has immediate sound, then the external wants immediate control and can't wait for the 10 second pause.
Turning off the GUI sounds doesn't help because that doesn't solve the problem of audio not being released from other audio sources like simply playing music. Currently, I have to go intentionally stop my music before I can start a video. Or if I have TvTunes enable, then it won't release either.
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fritsch
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Yeah, if you don't write the "but" - there is none :-) - so just keep it as is.
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sorry, i had hit the wrong key, now there is a but ;-)
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thanks for the explanantion.
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