Could be usefull an hardware survery poll to know what kind of audio equipment the MP users have? Might you propose in home - page.
1) NVIDIA GPU / HDMI drivers wont work with the audio renderer in WASAPI exclusive mode. This seems to be a driver bug.
2) AC3 encoding works only WASAPI exclusive mode (shared mode cannot be ever supported - technical limitation. DirectSound might get support some day)
However, I cannot change the sound volume or mute it. The volume/mute OSD appears, but the volume does not change.
So, to use AC3 encoding with an NVIDIA GPU, I can't use the HDMI. But how about if I have a DVI output -> HDMI for video, can I use my (sadly Creative) soundcard without related NVIDIA issues?
However, I cannot change the sound volume or mute it. The volume/mute OSD appears, but the volume does not change.
WASAPI exclusive mode doesn't allow vvolume controlling to be done by the drivers / OS mixer / audio HW. It would have to be implemented by the audio renderer. Since it will lower the audio quality (singnal to noise ration drops the amount the volume is lowered) I wont list that feature as a high priority one. Changing the volume on amp is always preferred way to preserve the sound quality (all other audio renderers are falling into this case as well).
One question: how do the new features affect installation and codec setup? How to setup to use properly? Thanks!