MediaPortal Audio renderer - better video playback quality (13 Viewers)

[mironicus]

AW: MediaPortal Audio renderer - better video playback quality

I cannot confirm the looping audio issue. The new audio driver runs fine with my Radeon 5450/5550/5770 on my three systems.

 

[Seeco]

tourettes: When I switch to default audio renderer I get no sound at all, is that normal?

EDIT:
So I logged a bit of playback anyway, and the framedrops are there now as well. Same thing, they appear at random occasions. Does this mean that it isn't a renderer issue?

 

[Truri]

AW: MediaPortal Audio renderer - better video playback quality

I cannot confirm the looping audio issue. The new audio driver runs fine with my Radeon 5450/5550/5770 on my three systems.

Mhm thats strange.
I just retested it again. The problem doesn't happen all the time or with every video.
I can't say it for sure but it happens more often with 1080p files (maybe because of heavier load?!)
Fact is, that with the older driver this problem never occured, so I stay with that for now.

 

[tourettes]

Agian a new (minor) patch release with two new settings

MaxBias

Maximum allowed speed that the playback can reach, this value is divided with 10000 to get the real value. Default value is 11000 (1.1x) - 10% speed up at maximum.

MinBias

Minimum allowed speed for the playback, this value is divided with 10000 to get the real value. Default value is 9000 (0.9x) - 10% speed down at maximum.

And following fixes / improvements:

• Aligned WASAPI buffer to match AC3 frame lenght when AC3 encoding is enabled - should reduce noise when zapping / seeking
• Fixed a memory / resource leak
• Added logging for sample allocator failures (during creation)
• Fixed audio adjustment to be thread safe - earlier it was possible that audio channels would have been out of phase in some cases when speed adjustment was done
• "Fixed wrong caching of alphablend" changes from mr_hipp incorporated. Render stats re-positioned so they're not covered by the timeline bar.
• Fixed Last WASAPI buffer before seeking / stop / pause getting cut

Download as usual: https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/637138-post3.html

Please try to report even the success cases, those are as important to know as the failures.

 

[Truri]

AW: MediaPortal Audio renderer - better video playback quality

Hi,

I installed the new version yesterday and as far as I can say until now, it's running very good.
No problems so far.

AND I have just played "our 24 Bit problem video" without problems.
ffdshow outputs 16 bit, all is ok

Selecting in ffdshow 16,24,32 Bit, ffdshow uses 32 Bit and I get no Audio Signal on my Onkyo.
Selecting in ffdshow 16,24 Bit, ffdshow uses 16 Bit and I get Multichannel PCM as expectet.
So far so good

I attached some logs.

 

[Truri]

AW: MediaPortal Audio renderer - better video playback quality

Well, I'll be damned.
That can't be.

I just testet the video via the windows remotedesktop. There all was ok like I wrote.
Now I retested everything directly on my tv... and there is the same symptom, switching to the second track fails (playback stop).
Then I thought that it might be a problem with the Refreshrate Changer, so I deaktivatet it. But no change.
Then I tried it again via Remotedesktop... There is the problem now, too.

Am I too stupid?!
Sorry for bothering you with that stupid thing, but maybe it hasn't any connection to the Audiorenderer.
If I find time today I will investigate that further.

 

[Owlsroost]

tourettes: When I switch to default audio renderer I get no sound at all, is that normal?

EDIT:
So I logged a bit of playback anyway, and the framedrops are there now as well. Same thing, they appear at random occasions. Does this mean that it isn't a renderer issue?

No, it's not an audio renderer issue (it's not loaded in the graph).

It look like something earlier in the graph (before the dshowhelper) is having problems - there is a nearly 1s gap in the data around 12:09:18 i.e. the dshowhelper has run out of data, then when the 'late' data arrives it has to drop a chunk of it because the correct 'presentation time' for it has already passed.

I'd check the CPU load (just in case there are any big spikes at the same time as the frame drops), and try a different H.264 decoder and/or MKV splitter if possible.

Tony

 

[red5goahead]

tourettes

I tried to set forceDirectSound. It seems to work. As you know with the Xonar DX wasapi not work.

the log is not very good but the sound is ok . only some void after the pause.

the question is .: but directsound work or not?

 

[chefkoch]

AW: Re: AW: MediaPortal Audio renderer - better video playback quality

I am having problems to register the renderer

I'm quite helpless when it comes to such error. Basicly there is no code on the filter side when the registration is done (if I remember correctly). I guess we would need to have a call stack at lest to be able to get more info (even better would be to be able to attach a debigger to the crashing process to see if it is some sysem component or audio renderer.)

Sorry missed your answer here in thread.

As we talked in IRC some time ago I tried registering again using Windbg.

windbg log for HTPC, where it fails: Paste2: Next Generation Pastebin - Viewing Paste 965987
windbg log for Laptop, here all is fine: Paste2: Next Generation Pastebin - Viewing Paste 965999

I have no idea if it is hardware, renderer or system related. The vcredist is the same on both, latest 9.0, which is included in VS2010.
It seems it fails in MFC90DEU.DLL, but only on one machine.
Would symbol files for the renderer help?

 

[disaster123]

AW: MediaPortal Audio renderer - better video playback quality

I'm getting this strange error.
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27-08-2010 18:31:01.656 [ a00] WASAPIRenderer::StartAudioClient
27-08-2010 18:31:01.656 [ a00] start failed (0x88890001)

)
Any idea?

27-08-2010 18:30:17.243 [ a00] MP Audio Renderer - v0.76
27-08-2010 18:30:17.243 [ a00] Loading settings from registry
27-08-2010 18:30:17.243 [ a00] ForceDirectSound: 0
27-08-2010 18:30:17.243 [ a00] EnableTimestrecthing: 1
27-08-2010 18:30:17.243 [ a00] WASAPIExclusive: 1
27-08-2010 18:30:17.243 [ a00] EnableAC3Encoding: 1
27-08-2010 18:30:17.243 [ a00] AC3bitrate: 448
27-08-2010 18:30:17.243 [ a00] MaxBias: 11000
27-08-2010 18:30:17.243 [ a00] MinBias: 9000
27-08-2010 18:30:17.243 [ a00] LogSampleTimes: 0
27-08-2010 18:30:17.243 [ a00] DevicePeriod: 500000 (1 == minimal, 0 == driver default, other user defined)
27-08-2010 18:30:17.243 [ a00] WASAPIPreferredDevice: {0.0.0.00000000}.{39f37a9d-5e1e-413a-989d-98bca339c84e}
27-08-2010 18:30:17.243 [ a00] CMPAudioRenderer - instance 0x88fc4b8
27-08-2010 18:30:17.243 [ a00] WASAPIRenderer::GetAvailableAudioDevices
27-08-2010 18:30:17.244 [ a00] 
27-08-2010 18:30:17.244 [ a00] Audio endpoint 0:
27-08-2010 18:30:17.244 [ a00] Digitalaudio (S/PDIF) (High Definition Audio-Gerät)
27-08-2010 18:30:17.244 [ a00] {0.0.0.00000000}.{39f37a9d-5e1e-413a-989d-98bca339c84e}
27-08-2010 18:30:17.244 [ a00] supports pull mode: 1
27-08-2010 18:30:17.245 [ a00] 
27-08-2010 18:30:17.245 [ a00] Audio endpoint 1:
27-08-2010 18:30:17.245 [ a00] ATI HDMI Output (2- ATI High Definition Audio Device)
27-08-2010 18:30:17.245 [ a00] {0.0.0.00000000}.{6132eb19-00ef-4c80-9cf4-7f84c8b01d7a}
27-08-2010 18:30:17.245 [ a00] supports pull mode: 1
27-08-2010 18:30:17.245 [ a00] 
27-08-2010 18:30:17.245 [ a00] WASAPIRenderer::StartRendererThread
27-08-2010 18:30:17.246 [ 13c0] Resampler thread - starting up - thread ID: 5056
27-08-2010 18:30:17.246 [ d6c] WASAPIRenderer::Render thread - starting up - thread ID: 3436
27-08-2010 18:30:17.599 [ a00] CheckMediaType
27-08-2010 18:30:17.599 [ a00] WAVEFORMATEX - CheckMediaType
27-08-2010 18:30:17.599 [ a00] nAvgBytesPerSec 192000
27-08-2010 18:30:17.599 [ a00] nBlockAlign 4
27-08-2010 18:30:17.599 [ a00] nChannels 2
27-08-2010 18:30:17.599 [ a00] nSamplesPerSec 48000
27-08-2010 18:30:17.599 [ a00] wBitsPerSample 16
27-08-2010 18:30:17.599 [ a00] wFormatTag 146
27-08-2010 18:30:17.599 [ a00] CheckMediaType
27-08-2010 18:30:17.834 [ a00] Pause
27-08-2010 18:30:18.204 [ d54] SetBias: 1.0000000000
27-08-2010 18:30:18.204 [ d54] SetBias - updated SoundTouch tempo
27-08-2010 18:30:18.204 [ d54] Run
27-08-2010 18:30:18.204 [ d54] WASAPIRenderer::Run
27-08-2010 18:30:18.204 [ d54] WASAPIRenderer::CheckAudioClient
27-08-2010 18:30:18.204 [ d54] WASAPIRenderer::GetAudioDevice
27-08-2010 18:30:18.204 [ d54] Target end point: {0.0.0.00000000}.{39f37a9d-5e1e-413a-989d-98bca339c84e}
27-08-2010 18:30:18.204 [ d54] WASAPIRenderer::GetAvailableAudioDevices
27-08-2010 18:30:18.204 [ d54] WASAPIRenderer::CreateAudioClient
27-08-2010 18:30:18.204 [ d54] WASAPIRenderer::CreateAudioClient success
27-08-2010 18:30:18.204 [ d54] WASAPIRenderer::StartRendererThread - resuming
27-08-2010 18:30:18.204 [ d54] WASAPIRenderer::StartAudioClient
27-08-2010 18:30:18.204 [ d54] start failed (0x88890001)
27-08-2010 18:30:44.945 [ a00] MP Audio Renderer - destructor - instance 0x15bc7030
27-08-2010 18:30:44.945 [ a00] Stop
27-08-2010 18:30:44.945 [ 6ec] Resampler thread - closing down - thread ID: 1772
27-08-2010 18:30:44.946 [ a00] WASAPIRenderer::StopRendererThread
27-08-2010 18:30:44.946 [ c7c] WASAPIRenderer::Render thread - closing down - thread ID: 3196
27-08-2010 18:30:44.946 [ a00] CloseEncoder - Closing AC3 encoder
27-08-2010 18:30:44.946 [ a00] WASAPIRenderer - destructor - instance 0x88fedc8
27-08-2010 18:30:44.946 [ a00] WASAPIRenderer - destructor - instance 0x88fedc8 - end
27-08-2010 18:30:44.946 [ a00] MP Audio Renderer - destructor - instance 0x15bc7030 - end
27-08-2010 18:30:44.956 [ a00] MP Audio Renderer - destructor - instance 0x15bc3cc8
27-08-2010 18:30:44.956 [ a00] Stop
27-08-2010 18:30:44.956 [ 8bc] Resampler thread - closing down - thread ID: 2236
27-08-2010 18:30:44.956 [ a00] WASAPIRenderer::StopRendererThread
27-08-2010 18:30:44.956 [ 71c] WASAPIRenderer::Render thread - closing down - thread ID: 1820
27-08-2010 18:30:44.959 [ a00] CloseEncoder - Closing AC3 encoder
27-08-2010 18:30:44.959 [ a00] WASAPIRenderer - destructor - instance 0x88fa428
27-08-2010 18:30:44.959 [ a00] WASAPIRenderer - destructor - instance 0x88fa428 - end
27-08-2010 18:30:44.959 [ a00] MP Audio Renderer - destructor - instance 0x15bc3cc8 - end
27-08-2010 18:31:01.478 [ a00] Pause
27-08-2010 18:31:01.656 [ a00] SetBias: 1.0000000000
27-08-2010 18:31:01.656 [ a00] SetBias - updated SoundTouch tempo
27-08-2010 18:31:01.656 [ a00] Run
27-08-2010 18:31:01.656 [ a00] WASAPIRenderer::Run
27-08-2010 18:31:01.656 [ a00] WASAPIRenderer::CheckAudioClient
27-08-2010 18:31:01.656 [ a00] WASAPIRenderer::StartRendererThread - resuming
27-08-2010 18:31:01.656 [ a00] WASAPIRenderer::StartAudioClient
27-08-2010 18:31:01.656 [ a00] start failed (0x88890001)
27-08-2010 18:31:44.769 [ a00] Pause
27-08-2010 18:31:44.776 [ a00] Stop
27-08-2010 18:31:44.776 [ a00] WASAPIRenderer::Stop - releasing WASAPI resources