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Homebrew CMI 8738 drivers

Reply #325 –
Isn't this card too different from C-Media's solutions?

Homebrew CMI 8738 drivers

Reply #326 –
Quote from: DAK.Eidolon on
Thanks for your answer wich makes perfect sense to me, at least.
Of course, during my initial test and setups, and conforming myself to the indications of your site, I paid attention to the position of the wave slider in the window mixer, making sure it was at its max. Technically, I don't think any other application, out of mediaportal, has access to the soundcard. Now the details you were kind enough to provide would explain why I can't hear any objective difference between mediaportal's plain player, mediaportal's player with Asio4All and mediaportal configured to use Foobar with kernel streaming plugin. I guess I finally have bitperfect playback after all (my holly Graal), wich should not be surprising because the whole thing sounds astounding, and even better than my expensive so-callled audiophile CD-Player. Thanks to you, it's finally a dream comes true, and I can have fast access to .ape, .flac and wavepack files, just using a remote, with a sound that is pure blissness. Bye-bye CD boxes, shelves, and dust...
Your driver really made my musical life such an enjoyable experience, I can't thank you enough for that.

Take care

My setup, if anyone cares :

Win XP (32)
Mediaportal (using the stock Bass player) (Free)
Windows Mediacenter Remote (25 Euros)
GForce visualisation plugin (Free demo version)
Terratec  Aureon 5.1 PCI (18 Euros)
Dogbert's CMIDriver-1.2.0-bin-x86 (Free)
Optical wire (20 Euros)
Derek Shek II Non OS DAC (check "Sigtone" on Ebay, this is a bomb) (238 Euros)
Pathos Classic One MKII hybrid amp
BC Acoustique Act 02 speakers


Interesting post. I'm trying to achieve the same - use a Media Player that can achieve a bit perfect output.

So you're saying above, that Media Portal can utilise these drivers and output bit perfect sound ? Really. ..

Right - I'm going to buy your soundcard and install away if thats the case.

I'm using Vista, not XP ... so, can I get this working using this ?

What about BluRay etc ?  Can I utilise the driver for stereo sound too ?

Interesting stuff this. ... not sure whether to bypass my PC's sound entirely using an Aiport Express - which works in a Mac like way and should pass the sound into my external DAC perfectly, or take this route.

Hoping for a response...

Is the card you have recommended for use with this driver ?

Many thanks for any responses.

Excellent work Dogber !

Homebrew CMI 8738 drivers

Reply #327 –
I'm obviously quite late coming to this.

Just following up on my post from above ..


When using Vista Media Centre I assume its still not possible to get a bit perfect output even using these drivers ?  Any way around this or does it have to be MediaPortal and not Media Centre .. ?

Homebrew CMI 8738 drivers

Reply #328 –
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I'm using Vista, not XP ... so, can I get this working using this ?

The service which handles all audio stuff in Vista alters the sound stream regardless whether there's actually a reason for that or not, and hence it isn't bitperfect. Subsequently, your audio player needs support for either kernel streaming, ASIO (you need to have an ASIO->KS wrapper installed for that) or WASAPI / exclusive access.

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Is the card you have recommended for use with this driver ?

There's a list of devices on my page - you are free to choose a card which serves your needs best in terms of availability, ports and physical size.

Quote from: BEEMB on
When using Vista Media Centre I assume its still not possible to get a bit perfect output even using these drivers ?

as far as I know, there aren't such plugins for Vista's Media Center.

Homebrew CMI 8738 drivers

Reply #329 –
Thank you for great work on this driver

I bought this card for its SPDIF input to connect my Playstation 2 and maybe xbox 360 later

i cant get Dolby Prologic 2 to decode on all channels from SPDIF, also an option to make regular stereo input to play on all channels would be nice

ALso the SPDIF input volume doesnt seem to move in windows mixer

I hope you will consider this

Homebrew CMI 8738 drivers

Reply #330 –
This may be a stupid question but does this driver support the CMI8770  found in the HT striker?

I know its not listed but some of these chipsets are essentially the same with different names, didn't know if the 8770  was on of them.

Also, why no svn on the google code page?

Homebrew CMI 8738 drivers

Reply #331 –
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I bought this card for its SPDIF input to connect my Playstation 2 and maybe xbox 360 later

Usually, this is a bad idea because the driver model introduces some delay during the decoding process which is very annoying. I had a report of someone who managed to get this working with reasonable performance by generating a custom filter graph (GraphEdit).

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i cant get Dolby Prologic 2 to decode on all channels from SPDIF, also an option to make regular stereo input to play on all channels would be nice

Sound processing isn't done in the driver on purpose, so the application has to generate such a stream. There are various plugins for player software such as winamp etc. which implement such functionality.


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This may be a stupid question but does this driver support the CMI8770 found in the HT striker?

The chip is almost identical to the 8768 with the exception of some register which enables the dolby encoder in the official driver, so yes. You'll lose the dolby real-time encoder though.

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I know its not listed

it *is* listed on the "supported devices" page.

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Also, why no svn on the google code page?

Too lazy to set it up... Besides, I'm the only developer so there isn't really a necessity for having a repo.

Homebrew CMI 8738 drivers

Reply #332 –
Quote from: Dogbert on
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This may be a stupid question but does this driver support the CMI8770 found in the HT striker?

The chip is almost identical to the 8768 with the exception of some register which enables the dolby encoder in the official driver, so yes. You'll lose the dolby real-time encoder though.

Neat, I will have to give it a try.

Quote from: Dogbert on
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I know its not listed

it *is* listed on the "supported devices" page.

Ah, I was looking at the FAQ and I only saw the chipsets. Sorry about that.

Quote from: Dogbert on
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Also, why no svn on the google code page?

Too lazy to set it up... Besides, I'm the only developer so there isn't really a necessity for having a repo.


The way you worded this makes it sound like you don't have local source control, you are using it locally right?

Homebrew CMI 8738 drivers

Reply #333 –
Please i really hope that someone can help me.I have a ps3 and a trust sc-5250.I can have  dolby digital decoded in ps3 games  trough this card if i use ac3 filter and graph edit ? I have already made some attempts and was given me  only white noise.Please help!!!

Homebrew CMI 8738 drivers

Reply #334 –
Hello,

I am currently using a Terratec Aureon 5.1 USB MK II audio device and tried to install this driver here.

But it doesn't want to work with Vista Home Premium 32 Bit.

The automatical driver installation fails and after the manual driver update the is always the problem no. 10 saying that the driver could not be loaded.

I'm using this external USB audio adapter with my Samsung R510 laptop, which has got a Realtek audio device onboard. Should I try to uninstall the Realtek driver to solve my driver issue?

Thanks in advance for your help! It would be great if somebody could help me!!

Homebrew CMI 8738 drivers

Reply #336 –
Quote from: Dogbert on
as mentioned in the FAQ, your device is incompatible with the driver.


Oh no - what a pitty! So I spent almost 40 bucks for nothing.. 

But thanks anyway for your quick reply. You're doing a good job!

Any recommendations for an alternative for me?
 

Homebrew CMI 8738 drivers

Reply #338 –
Quote from: Dogbert on
Quote from: Martin275 on
Any recommendations for an alternative for me?


Since you're a limited to USB, the m-audio transit is a good choice for a bitperfect audio interface. The adapter requires manually changing the sample rate to match the playback material which is tedious.


Thank you, but m-audio transit usb is far from being cheap..

I focussed something like this, but I'm not quite sure if it passes through spdif-signals flawlessy?!

Homebrew CMI 8738 drivers

Reply #339 –
Dunno in can help, BTW:
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This project was registered on SourceForge.net on Nov 26, 2008, and is described by the project team as follows:
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Windows USB audio driver source for EMU CA0188- and CA0189-Based external audio devices. Existing products include EMU 0202 USB, EMU 0404 USB, and TrackerPre.


Welcome to the EMU/Creative Windows USB audio drivers:
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The code published here is accessible using Subversion (SVN). The following is the URL to use for checking out the code 

https://zaudiodriverwin.svn.sourceforge.net...driverwin/trunk

Once checked out, you can build the code using Microsoft's WDK tools as described in the readme file in the project source itself.

Homebrew CMI 8738 drivers

Reply #340 –
OK, I installed it on XP64 bit

First, the Audio Control control panel shows only (Stereo 2.0) available channels.
Second, the MPU401 is not working (MPU401 Address: 0000)

Homebrew CMI 8738 drivers

Reply #341 –
Quote from: Ludmil on
First, the Audio Control control panel shows only (Stereo 2.0) available channels.

and what it is supposed to show?
there is a plethora of cmedia chips and it's hard if not impossible to determine their capabilities, so the number of channels is chosen conservatively. what chip revision do you have?

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Second, the MPU401 is not working (MPU401 Address: 0000)

that's disabled because it caused reproducible lock-ups on some systems with a specific motherboard chipset.

Homebrew CMI 8738 drivers

Reply #342 –
Hi Dogbert!

First of all congratulations and thank you for the fantastic driver you have programed!

I have a question concerning WaveRT. What are the differences between the WaveRT and the non-WaveRT version of your driver? Is WaveRT somehow superior to the "standard driver"?

I'm currently running Windows Vista Ultimate x64 with the WaveRT driver. I'm just curious on the differences between the two driver alternatives.

Thank you so far!

Regards
McMusic

Homebrew CMI 8738 drivers

Reply #343 –
WaveRT is an alternative model for audio drivers: an intermediate buffer between the application and the soundcard which has been used in previous models (WavePCI, WaveCyclic) is omitted, and an application can have direct access to the buffer which the soundcard's DMA engine uses for getting/storing the samples.
This permits lower delay times and it is also somewhat advantageous in terms of CPU usage.

Homebrew CMI 8738 drivers

Reply #344 –
Thank you Dogbert for the explanation! 

Homebrew CMI 8738 drivers

Reply #345 –
Hi Dogbert,

After spending way too long trying to get SPDIF from my Creative X-Fi card to my amp I came across one of your posts in AVForums, which led me to your site.  I purchased a c-media based card (value 8-channel with optical out...8768 chip), did a fresh install of Vista and installed your drivers (v1.2.3).  However....I am still not getting any sound from my amp. 

I recently had an Asus motherboard and was using the onboard sound via coax spfid and it worked without a problem.  I have just upgraded and changed to an Intel board.  The onboard sound didn't have spdif out which is why tried the X-Fi again.  After finding your site I thought my prayers had been answered with a cheap c-media card but I'm still stuck.

I've made sure the card is set to SPFID out.  I'm using the Arcsoft TotalMedia Theatre to play films (which is set to audio SPDIF out) and media player for music.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?  I upgraded to be able to play HD-DVD/Blu ray and at the mo can't use my HTPC as there's no audio!

Thanks.


EDIT:  Think I've fixed it!  Knew it was something I had done.  I forgot to disable the onboard sound in BIOS (don't I feel stupid!  lol!).  Thanks for the drivers...it works great!!  NOw my £10 value sound card is doing what my £70 X-Fi couldn't!!

Homebrew CMI 8738 drivers

Reply #346 –
OK....I've been watching HD-DVD's, Blu ray's and some video from HDD.  At some point watching all of them the video as suddenly slowed right down and I've lost audio.  I closed the programs I was using (TotalMedia Theatre and WMP11) and although the video starts playing normally again I have no audio.

I have just rebooted the PC and now have no audio at all...not even system sounds.  Anyone got any ideas?

Homebrew CMI 8738 drivers

Reply #347 –
Hi

I use your amazing drivers with Windows 7. I'm also using Asio4All with foobar.

Only using SPDIF output (toslink). Analog output is disable as you can see.

Can you tell me what the 2 outputs in the asio4all control panel are?

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Homebrew CMI 8738 drivers

Reply #348 –
One output interface is for the analog ports and the other one for the digital ports. The digital port is necessary for AC3/dts passthrough, but since this is only an artificial construction to work around some issues with the multimedia API of Windows Vista/7, it doesn't matter what output you choose in ASIO4ALL - both interfaces are handled almost identically by the driver.

Homebrew CMI 8738 drivers

Reply #349 –
Don't know if this is old news, but I just tried it and was rather surprised: Bit-perfect playback also works with the official C-Media drivers! When playing "dts_the_other_side_44khz.wav" my receiver (Denon 1908) detects DTS and plays on all speakers.

I'm using a Terratec 7.1 with CMI8768+, driver "Windows XP/2000,8.17.33,2009-01-09" from the C-Media homepage. Used max Volume, foobar player set to 16bit output, soundcard set to 44.1khz output.

Edit: Sorry, just realized that this has already been posted before...