ASIO issues (no sound) (1 Viewer)

[phunqe]

I have an Auzentech X-Meridian 7.1 card and I'm trying to get the BASS player working with ASIO.
I'm using the ASIO4ALL drivers, since the included C-Media drivers won't play with MP (just static noises and crackling).
Now, if I use the PureAudio plugin I do get perfect sound, which baffles me. If I turn it off and try to use the BASS player with ASIO directly I get no sound whatsoever. The Volume is set to 100 and the log file indicate no problem whatsowever (PureAudio turned off):

2007-11-25 02:21:38.836347 [Info.][10]: BASS: Initialize BASS environment ...
2007-11-25 02:21:38.956347 [Info.][6]: DVBGraphBDA:CreateGraph() connect capture->demuxer
2007-11-25 02:21:38.961347 [Info.][6]: DVBGraphBDA:CreateGraph() add stream analyzer
2007-11-25 02:21:38.970347 [Info.][6]: DVBGraphBDA:got 2 tuner statistics
2007-11-25 02:21:38.974347 [Info.][6]: Twinhan: check for Twinhan driver
2007-11-25 02:21:39.576347 [Info.][MPMain]: Visualization Window: Loading skin settings...
2007-11-25 02:21:39.579347 [Info.][MPMain]: BASS: Creating visualization...
2007-11-25 02:21:39.583347 [Info.][MPMain]: Visualization Manager: Closing current visualization plugin...
2007-11-25 02:21:39.583347 [Info.][MPMain]: Visualization Manager: Visualization plugin close not required - nothing loaded
2007-11-25 02:21:39.586347 [Info.][10]: BASS: Loading audio decoder add-ins...
2007-11-25 02:21:39.613347 [Info.][10]: BASS: Loaded 9 Audio Decoders.
2007-11-25 02:21:39.779347 [Info.][10]: BASS: Initializing BASS environment done.
2007-11-25 02:21:41.707347 [Info.][MPMain]: open folderdatabase
2007-11-25 02:21:49.170347 [Info.][MPMain]: g_Player.Play(W:\Uriah Heep\1982 - [192 Kbps] - Abominog\11 - Uriah Heep - Abominog - Tin Soldier (Bonus, not on cover).mp3)
2007-11-25 02:21:49.171347 [Info.][6]: Commandtop radio
2007-11-25 02:21:49.171347 [Info.][6]: Commandprocessor: MediaPortal.TV.Recording.StopRadioCommand failed reason: time: 2 msec
2007-11-25 02:21:49.173347 [Info.][6]: Commandprocessor: Card:FireDTV DVB-C idle
2007-11-25 02:21:49.180347 [Info.][MPMain]: Loading external players plugins
2007-11-25 02:21:49.187347 [Info.][MPMain]: found plugin:MediaPortal.WinampPlayer.WinampPlugin in C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Plugins\ExternalPlayers\ExternalPlayers.dll
2007-11-25 02:21:49.187347 [Info.][MPMain]: player:Winamp. author: int_20h
2007-11-25 02:21:49.188347 [Info.][MPMain]: found plugin:MediaPortal.ITunesPlayer.ITunesPlugin in C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Plugins\ExternalPlayers\ExternalPlayers.dll
2007-11-25 02:21:49.188347 [Info.][MPMain]: player:iTunes. author: Frodo
2007-11-25 02:21:49.188347 [Info.][MPMain]: found plugin:MediaPortal.FoobarPlugin.FoobarPlugin in C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Plugins\ExternalPlayers\ExternalPlayers.dll
2007-11-25 02:21:49.188347 [Info.][MPMain]: player:Foobar2000. author: int_20h/rtv
2007-11-25 02:21:49.197347 [Info.][MPMain]: found plugin:MediaPortal.Player.PureAudio.BassAudioEngine in C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Plugins\ExternalPlayers\PureAudio.dll
2007-11-25 02:21:49.198347 [Info.][MPMain]: playerureAudio. author: Sieds Tilstra
2007-11-25 02:21:49.201347 [Info.][MPMain]: BASS: Initializing BASS audio engine...
2007-11-25 02:21:49.201347 [Info.][MPMain]: BASS: Using ASIO device: ASIO4ALL v2
2007-11-25 02:21:49.233347 [Info.][MPMain]: BASS: ASIO output to 2 channels
2007-11-25 02:21:49.241347 [Info.][MPMain]: BASS: Initialization done.
2007-11-25 02:21:49.329347 [Info.][MPMain]: BASS: playback started
2007-11-25 02:21:49.332347 [Info.][MPMain]: g_Player.OnStarted() W:\Uriah Heep\1982 - [192 Kbps] - Abominog\11 - Uriah Heep - Abominog - Tin Soldier (Bonus, not on cover).mp3 media:Music

Since PureAudio works, that would indicate that the ASIO4ALL drivers works correctly.

Running 0.2.3.0 final (no SVNs) on Vista 32-bit.

Any ideas?

 

[hwahrmann]

So the log shows that you're using the PureAudio plugin, which works for you. fine.
what does the log tell, if PureAudio is disabled?

 

[phunqe]

The log above is with PureAudio turned off (which is the weird part, since it doens't show any errors whatsoever). It's like the volume is set to 0 or something.

 

[hwahrmann]

And you really have only 2 ASIO Channels on that Card?
looks like that i get some information not correctly reported.

 

[phunqe]

Ok this is weird.

When you mentioned that about the 2 channels I went into the ASIO4ALL configuration and selected the output with 8 channels instead and now it's working!
The output with 2 channels does work with PureAudio though. The 2 channel output is obviously for music while the 8 one is for 7.1 audio, which the frequencies might hint about as well.

EDIT: But the 2 channels are 16bits only. Hmmm.... I think I confused myself.

EDIT 2: On a more general note, do you have any idea why the ASIO drivers that came with the card (C-Media drivers) would not work with BASS? I just get static noises if I try to use that.

Final edit: Ahaaaaaaaaa. Now I see what seems to be the problem. After I used the ASIO4ALL tool to switch to the 8 channel ASIO output, the regular BASS player started to work as well. Strangely enough, if I do a fresh install of Vista and install the soudcard drivers it defaults to the 2 channel output (and this can't be changed by any means, unless I use ASIO4ALL).