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More => Old Versions => Media Center 15 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: leoric on August 05, 2010, 07:58:24 am

Title: Fallback to resampling without message box
Post by: leoric on August 05, 2010, 07:58:24 am

First of all, my MC environment: Win7, WASAPI exclusive, HDMI audio connection nVidia->Denon.

I have different sources besides usual 44.1 kHz/16 bit/2 ch. - 22/16/2, 48/16/2, 96/24/2, 88/24/2, 88/24/6,... Denon should support all of them but nVidia HDMI audio driver allows only 44, 48, 96, 192 kHz output. Also 96/24/6 is not possible (BTW can somebody tell me why?) I want to avoid seeing message "Unable to play ... because output format is not supported blah-blah ..." because this stops playback until I press OK.

I don't want to use DSP Studio feature that allows resampling because this will require changing it's settings for each source. Sure, it is possible to playback all sources in 48/16 using same DSP Studio settings, but this will degrade some sources.

I see two options how to solve this: 1 - just fallback to resampling with some alternate predefined format instead of displaying blocking message box (maybe show somewhere somehow that playback performed with alternate settings); 2 - add more flexibility to DSP Studio, may be allow linking zones with source format. Option 1 seems to be easy to implement and universally. But option 2 also will be useful even if option 1 implemented.

One more quest: has anyone tried HDMI audio output with Core i3?  Does it also allow only 44, 48, 96, 192?

Title: Re: Fallback to resampling without message box
Post by: JimH on August 05, 2010, 08:05:05 am

Option 1 is available in recent builds of MC15.

Title: Re: Fallback to resampling without message box
Post by: leoric on August 05, 2010, 08:15:06 am

Great, but what you mean by recent? >87?

Title: Re: Fallback to resampling without message box
Post by: JimH on August 05, 2010, 08:18:24 am

It's been there for about a month.  Click on the attached picture.

Title: Re: Fallback to resampling without message box
Post by: leoric on August 05, 2010, 08:29:16 am

No, this is not what I meant as option 1. This is some kind of option 2 but it is not satisfactory because it will degrade 96k and 192k sources. Also it doesn't solve issue with 96/24/6 sources.
I referer to this option in original message: "Sure, it is possible to playback all sources in 48/16 using same DSP Studio settings, but this will degrade some sources."

Title: Re: Fallback to resampling without message box
Post by: JimH on August 05, 2010, 08:44:01 am

Look at the line below the blue line.  That option only converts if the content is greater than 96KHz.

Title: Re: Fallback to resampling without message box
Post by: leoric on August 05, 2010, 08:50:07 am

Quote from: JimH on August 05, 2010, 08:44:01 am

Look at the line below the blue line.  That option only converts if the content is greater than 96KHz.

With this option it still hangs on 88k sources.