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Title: URGENT:No sound when Asio output mode is selected
Post by: jbony on January 18, 2007, 09:03:14 pm

I have a strange issue with both version MC (11&12). I have no sound if I selected ASIO as the output mode.
I'm using an Auzentech X-Meridian soundcard.
I tried Winamp with ASIO, and wianamp->asio works fine.
I tried Foobar2000 with ASIO and it works fine also.

So what's wrong with MC and ASIO?
Please, help. This is very urgent since ASIO is a most for me. Actually it is one the feature that encouraged me to buy MC.

Regardless of the output bit depth and sampling rate

Title: Re: URGENT:No sound when Asio output mode is selected
Post by: JimH on January 18, 2007, 09:20:33 pm

Driver?  Try a search for asio4all.

Title: Re: URGENT:No sound when Asio output mode is selected
Post by: jbony on January 18, 2007, 09:33:00 pm

Yes I tried Asio for all, same issue with ASIO4All.

Title: Re: URGENT:No sound when Asio output mode is selected
Post by: Osho on January 18, 2007, 09:55:23 pm

What's your sound card and driver? Does your sound card configuration utility (if any one such exists in your case) show that you are receiving ASIO stream with certain bitrate?

I have lynx studio sound card and its configuration utility was helpful to me for debugging such issues.

Osho

Title: Re: URGENT:No sound when Asio output mode is selected
Post by: jbony on January 19, 2007, 04:07:10 pm

Guys, thanks for the replies.
I submitted a support ticket to Auzentech regarding this issue. But What I find strange is the fact that Winamp with the ASIO plugin works fine. So does Foorbar.

Where I get confuse even more is the fact that my Creative X-Fi Elite pro ASIO works fine with MC.

ASIO4All is not working either with this soundcard and MC.

Title: Re: URGENT:No sound when Asio output mode is selected
Post by: JimH on January 19, 2007, 04:12:29 pm

Have you thoroughly explored MC's options for playback?

Have you tried many different file types?  Which ones?

Is volume muted?

Can you answer Osho's questions?

Title: Re: URGENT:No sound when Asio output mode is selected
Post by: jbony on January 19, 2007, 08:09:07 pm

Playback is fine using Waveout or Directsound.
I checked the configuration utility of the card when MC is set to output through ASIO. The card audio monitoring status stay at 0 meaning the card did not detect any audio stream coming in. Which makes me think that MC is not communicating with the card driver when ASIO is selected.

I changed the ASIO channel offset setting in MC within the following range 0-32 at 1 step, still nothing.
No Volume is not muted.

Yes, I tried many file types. All my audio files are either APE, WAV or FLAC.
No sound regardless of the file format

One other thing I noticed is that ASIO4ALL caused MC to freeze.

Title: Re: URGENT:No sound when Asio output mode is selected
Post by: Alex B on January 20, 2007, 05:56:54 am

Auzentech was a previously unknown brand to me. Google found the this thread at www.mp3car.com forum:
http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=91838. The thread has some discusson about the Auzentech X-Meridian 7.1 card.

It uses the CMI-8788 chip, which is probably not supported by ASIO4ALL. By looking the control panel screenshots (links in that thread) it seems like the included ASIO driver is always locked to a certain sample rate instead of automatically selecting the sample rate. I wonder if you have not set MC's output sample rate and the Auzentech ASIO driver sample rate to the same value.

Title: Re: URGENT:No sound when Asio output mode is selected
Post by: jbony on January 20, 2007, 10:34:27 pm

Alex B. Thank you.
Yes, that was the issue. I downloaded Asio Caps from otachan and noticed that the AuzenTech X-Meridian Asio driver was set by default to 24-bit and a latency to 2ms. Changing the bit depth to 16 and latency to 4ms, fixed the issue.

Now MC is working fine.

Thanks for pointing me to the correct direction.

Regards,