Thanks for the work you do on this ralphy! This little side project is slowly becoming the most viable software player as squeezeplay and softsqueeze seemingly fall into abandonment. I somehow doubt the expected "news/changes" around the first of the year will signal their improved support either.
-Chris On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:40 AM, bobkoure < bobkoure.438y801260898...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com> wrote: > > 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 >
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