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jimwhite

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Direct Show(Sound?) playback of audio files
« on: October 30, 2008, 02:41:46 pm »

I have tons of DTS audio files that were encoded to lossless WMA.  These play fine on my system in any direct show based player and in graphedit...

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Music.wma ---> WMAudio Decoder DMO ---> AC3Filter ---> Default DirectSound Device
Is there a way to enable this or maybe add .WMA to the list of filetypes in the DirectShow Filters dialog?

Note:  I am NOT using an AVR with spdif, I'm using analog direct to power amps.
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Re: Direct Show(Sound?) playback of audio files
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2008, 08:41:39 pm »

Here is some advice I received from Yaobing on adding new file extensions a while ago but I'm not sure how you are going to go with WMA files as the extension is already in use for the existing Audio playback - have a go and Yaobing may also have some advice.  Also if you post a link to an example file others will give it a go and may provide some advice.
Thanks
Nathan


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Can you please try adding the extension to FileAssociations.xml file and let us know how it works? You need to add it in two places:


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<DescriptionTypes>
<Audio>...</Audio>
<Image>...</Image>
<Video>MPEG Video (mp2,mpeg,mpg,m1v,mpv,mpe,m2v,tp,m2t);...</Video>
               ...
</DescriptionTypes>

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<DXTypes>...;mpeg;mpg;m1v;m2v;mp2;tp;m2t;...</DXTypes>


 
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Re: Direct Show(Sound?) playback of audio files
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2008, 09:35:10 pm »

All DirectShow configuration is under Playback/Video/Directshow.  Even audio (for now).
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Re: Direct Show(Sound?) playback of audio files
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2008, 10:15:13 pm »

It works !!!  :o

I had to simply add .wma to DSTypes (NOT DXTypes) and select the filters as shown in graphedit (Windows Media Asf Reader, WMAudio Decoder DMO, AC3Filter, and Default DirectSound Device).

Thanks a bunch!!  ;D

PS... only caveat is that the little "spectrum analyzer" is missing, oh well...
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