Yet Another (WA)SAPI Output Plugin for Winamp (YASAPI)

Philippe · 29th June 2016, 16:38

Hello,

I haven’t posted here for the last few days, but I actually continued to test the new versions of the plugin almost each time they were released…
First, I indeed had issues with pausing and skipping, with different behavior depending of the audio format (MP3, FLAC, etc.)… But I can confirm that since 1.7.9 those bugs are gone! Great! Thank you!

I’ve tried today version 1.7.14, and the new 24 bit feature. To be honest I’m not really sure how it is supposed to work: what happens when I play a 16 bit file in that mode then? Is it supposed to get upsampled?! And what used to happen when I played 24 bit files while that mode wasn’t enabled? Were they downsampled?! I’d be rather pleased to be enlighted…

My sound card is ‘supposed’ to support 24 bits playback as windows shows:

So, I tried to enable that option, but it doesn’t seem to be working for me… But I wouldn’t be surprised if actually my soundcard doesn’t really support 24bit streams in fact…
More annoying, playing any file when the option is enabled gives me a lot of error popups/message:

There also is another test which I did before… that is playing a file with a rather exotic sample rate: for example 43210Hz. In DirectSound mode I can play the file because it is resampled anyway… I can totally understand that in YASAPI mode the file cannot be played of course... However, the plugin still shows lot of pop-ups (and with exactly the same messages as above with version 1.7.14). I’d find it less disturbing if in case of unsupported format, winamp’d skip the file to the next one in the playlist… that’s how it is behaving in case of files not supported by the associated input plugin…
However, with 32bits file, I still get winamp freezing instead of having such pop-ups: quite weird…

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29th June 2016, 16:38	#11
Philippe Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2016 Posts: 16	Hello, I haven’t posted here for the last few days, but I actually continued to test the new versions of the plugin almost each time they were released… First, I indeed had issues with pausing and skipping, with different behavior depending of the audio format (MP3, FLAC, etc.)… But I can confirm that since 1.7.9 those bugs are gone! Great! Thank you! I’ve tried today version 1.7.14, and the new 24 bit feature. To be honest I’m not really sure how it is supposed to work: what happens when I play a 16 bit file in that mode then? Is it supposed to get upsampled?! And what used to happen when I played 24 bit files while that mode wasn’t enabled? Were they downsampled?! I’d be rather pleased to be enlighted… My sound card is ‘supposed’ to support 24 bits playback as windows shows: So, I tried to enable that option, but it doesn’t seem to be working for me… But I wouldn’t be surprised if actually my soundcard doesn’t really support 24bit streams in fact… More annoying, playing any file when the option is enabled gives me a lot of error popups/message: There also is another test which I did before… that is playing a file with a rather exotic sample rate: for example 43210Hz. In DirectSound mode I can play the file because it is resampled anyway… I can totally understand that in YASAPI mode the file cannot be played of course... However, the plugin still shows lot of pop-ups (and with exactly the same messages as above with version 1.7.14). I’d find it less disturbing if in case of unsupported format, winamp’d skip the file to the next one in the playlist… that’s how it is behaving in case of files not supported by the associated input plugin… However, with 32bits file, I still get winamp freezing instead of having such pop-ups: quite weird…