ASIO Music Player Plugin (1 Viewer)

[synthdood]

....Could it be that the hickup only happens on the analog output?

I can't think of any reason why it should...
The only thing we know now is that performance is not the issue. Currently i'm testing the upcoming version with visualizations added. Even when i enable the status-overlay which pushes my slow celeron to its limits the ASIO playback doens't get affected in any way...

@synthdood, What kind of device do you use? ASIO4ALL? maybe it's related to particular devices.

Symph

I use ASIO4ALL with the onboard realtek soundchip on an ASUS M2A-V HDMI motherboard. I have now connected both analog (to my TV) and SPDIF (to the receiver) simultaneously and still notice the occasional hickup. It seems to appear kind of random, but I now think it may have something to do with USB. I use a USB WLAN adapter and I know that the chipset on my mainboard (ATI 690G) has issues with USB performance. I have seen 45% CPU when copying something over WLAN (eventhough the transfer is still very slow, but that's another story...).

Anyway, I have increased the buffer size in ASIO4ALL. Let's see if that makes any difference.

If only Realtek would make a real ASIO driver. With just about every mainboard produced nowadays using a realtek audio chip it could make many people very happy.

 

[Symphy]

from fahanson - Thank you for this great plugin But if I use it I can't use "Uitzending gemist"any more because I have no picture with it. If I use the regular BASS player then "Uitzending gemist"works again Do you know a solution for it. Best Regard Fred Hanson Keep on the good work.

That's something that should be fixed by the author of the "Uitzending gemist" plugin. I'll leave a msg in his thread.

Regards,
Sieds

 

[Symphy]

New version 0.1.2.0

Hi everyone!

First of all i want to thank everybody for their input and feedback.
I have a new version available which should soon be available here: https://www.team-mediaportal.com/files/Download/MediaPortalInstaller(MPI)/AudioorRadio/ASIOMusicPlayerPlugin/

Most important changes:

• Visualizations. MP 0.2.3.0 RC3 Required! For the most part it is a copy of the existing code. However, i made changes to especially the WMP vis support to make them A LOT more responsive and display proper waveforms. They now look very much the way they look in WMP itself.
• There's an option to synchronize the visualization with the sound if nessecary.
• Auto-bitperfect. When playing a DTS file, the player automatically enables bitperfect mode and also disables the fade-in/out feature. Detection is simply done on .dts file-extension. Optionally, you can do the same for .WAV files if you don't use those for anything else.
• Proper support for ASX files. If you want to play webstreams over PureAudio, the best way to do that now is to create ASX files for them and have them listed in My Music. You have to add the folder they are in to the MP Music folders and add the ASX extension to the MP Music extensions. Also, make sure the ASX extension is mapped to PureAudio. If the webstream supplies artist names and track titles, they will be properly displayed in Now Playing and in fullscreen visualization (when visualization status overlay is enabled).

Enjoy!

Symphy

 

[ewiles]

This plugin just keeps getting better and better. Thanks!

 

[patricon]

There is only a few words to say when a program works: it works! and this program (plugin) works... congratulations!! my wishes are that mp itself works at least as this plugin does...

regards,

 

[darklord]

Just want to say im happy with this plugin and mabe its the best of all !:.

For me the sound and picture quality is the thing !!!

 

[kenwonders]

Amazing work Symphy. Absolutely brilliant.

 

[mobile]

passthrough mode for DTS and ac3 Wav ?

Hi,

I was wishing to use Mediaportal ( 0.2.3 RC3) to listen all kind of wav files I have including .wav files which contains DTS and ac3 music.

I noticed that the MP integrated music player was not playing those DTS and ac3 files (with .wav extension) via SPDIF.

So I was very happy yesterday to find and install this pureaudio plugin! I installed ASIO4ALL as well.
I am using the SPDIF output of my motherboard to my receiver.

Stereo files are working perfectly. But not ac3 and dts wav files. Based on my receiver :
- ac3 wav files are downmixed to stereo,
- dts wav files made hiss noise.

It seems that the sound is decoded/downmixed somewhere in MP/plugin (assumption). Using Media Player Classic on same htpc there no issue. Same music files are working fine and the receiver is detecting and decoding DTS sounds.

So I checked again the settings but they seems to be correct :
- realtek HD audio - output 1 to 8 is selected (there is a realteck HD audio chipset on my MSI P35 platinum motherboard).
- general settings : use passthrough mode for DTS and Wav (both are selected).

I had Asio4all v2.8 Beta 2. So I tested the last stable version 2.7 but same bad result.
I am sure that asio is used (when changing realteck device to another one in asio config, the sound is going to my TV via my video card/HDMI which contains an audio device (Asus 2600).

Did I miss something in my settings/config ? What I can test/check to determine the root case of this issue ?

Kind regards,
Mobile.

 

[Itisme]

for me the same problem
dts files via SPDIF just give garbage

i hoped this version would work but still the same problem.
if i try the standard player in MP with and ASIO i have the same problem.

if i try MPC it works ok.

graphedit won't connect to the bass audio so i can't see the difference in filters??
in the log everything looks ok, only that dx9 exclusive is disabled but maybe this is normal?

 

[hwahrmann]

There is only a few words to say when a program works: it works! and this program (plugin) works... congratulations!! my wishes are that mp itself works at least as this plugin does...

regards,

My wish is that you contribute something useful instead of nagging constantly