Tried ASIO win32 - plays great. Had to install an ASIO driver http://www.asio4all.com/ This piped through an analog devices -Soundmax Digital HD Audio- that hands the stream off to a receiver via s/pdif. Nice to be able to avoid direct sound. Can't hear a difference other than what can be attributed to psychological effects - but I seldom have other sounds playing.
That said, it doesn't seem to be exiting gracefully when passed a ctl-C (sound stops but cmd window is hung). Similarly, if I simply close the cmd window, sound stops, but the cmd window is frozen until I get the win system message "windows is unable to close this application..." For the uninitiated the issue ASIO addresses is that DS merges audio streams. So it messes with latency and probably has to do some resampling. No beef with MS, this is part of their "support minimal hardware" policy. Most audio devices these days can handle at least a couple of streams, but MS needs to run on old stuff too. For simple playback, I don't care about latency, although I might if I was trying to synchronize software and hardware players - I -do- care about resampling, though. Up to now there hadn't been much I could do about it, other than buy a hardware player to go next to my PC - so this is pretty cool. Thanks for ASIO support! Bob -- bobkoure ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bobkoure's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14646 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63966 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
