My Discovery? - It's ASIO.
Well, it is on my system anyways. Opening this asf stream
http://62.25.96.7/rrs/ with ASIO selected in playback options causes MC to crash, leaving me with this...
http://foc.no-ip.com/files/mccrash.mp3 (132kb) not pleasant, yes, only the left channel, no way to stop it except to reboot. Happens every time.
Changed output mode to directsound and now we have....
Listening to: 'Windows Media Stream' on Media Center 9.0
I tried changing the buffer settings but it made no difference. My choices were as follows....
Output mode - ASIO
Output format - 32 bit bitdepth
Source No. of channels
48,000 Hz sample rate.
I only changed output mode to stop it from crashing.
points of note...
Where it says 'Windows Media Stream' it should say 'Scotlands best variety of music and talk' and the stream is an .asf stream but MC reports it as a .wma stream.
Media Center Registered 9.0.163 -- C:\Program Files\Media Center\
Microsoft Windows XP Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
AMD Athlon 1611 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1048 MB, Free - 702 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920)
Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920)wnaspi32.dll: 4.71 (0001) , ASPI for Win32 (95/NT) DLL, Copyright © 1989-2002 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: 4.71 (0001)
Ripping / Drive M: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Drive Q: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Drive R: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: Yes / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: No / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / Drive R: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1610A Addr: 1:0:0 Speed:16 MaxSpeed:16 Use MJ Engine:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: No
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None