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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 29 for Windows => Topic started by: aseimel on March 03, 2022, 11:07:55 am
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Hello Everyone,
I am currently testing JRiver 29. I have 2.1 setup that is corrected with Dirac live multi-channel standalone. I output from JRiver using WASAPI into the dirac live virtual sound card. The Dirac digital sound card is set up as a 96khz 2.1 device and my settings outputs settings look as follows:
(https://seimel.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/settings.png)
While to the best of my knowledge I thought this setup should be correct I always get an error:
(https://seimel.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/error.png)
This is strange because it shouldn''t be six but three channels. With any other setup I tried for testing 3.1, 5.1 it shows the correct number of channels in the error message but when set it up as 2.1 the error shows 6 six channels. This seem pretty odd to me. Is this a bug or do I have a mistake in my settings?
Edit: the error message says Direct sound because I tried this a possible fix but I get the same error for WASAPI
Thank you in advance.
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2.1 output will actually use six channels and just fill three of them. This is because the 5.1 format is a standard.
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try the following:
set output channels to 5.1
tick the box : for stereo sources , only mix to 2.1
set channels back to 2.1
and see what you get.
This trick works for my 4 speaker setup.
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Thank you for the quick responses.
2.1 output will actually use six channels and just fill three of them. This is because the 5.1 format is a standard.
Why is it like this for 2.1 but not 3.1? Because if I set it to 3.1 the error message shows 4 not 6 channels.
try the following:
set output channels to 5.1
tick the box : for stereo sources , only mix to 2.1
set channels back to 2.1
and see what you get.
This trick works for my 4 speaker setup.
I tried this but unfortunately it didn't work :-\
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Ok so I tried using the VST3 plugin instead and got it to work with 3.1 channels and the I move the center to the LR but I am pretty sure that is adding unnecessary up- and down mixing to the chain. The problem is that that the 2.1 setting is seen as a 6-channel output. That causes an error because my Motu only has 4 outputs. The 3.1 setting on the other hand is only seen as a 4-channel output so I cannot really imagine that this is this really intentional. It would really prohibit the use of a lot of audio interfaces.