Bauer stereophonic-to-binaural DSP plugin
Reply #153 – 2011-02-03 12:41:34
Can you try my 32bit float WAV files are made by Audacity? This files are played but not passed to my DSP on Windows XP SP3 WMP11. Both these files are in W7/x86 WMP12 played back and filtered through BS2B with no problem, absolutelly flawless. WMP11 on XP uses for formats that it directly supports (except for some situations in case of WV/W7) different pipeline as in WV/W7 and i'm surprised, that it plays back 32bit wav at all. Though with 24bits shouldn't be a problem in WMP11 on XP: http://www.benchmarkmedia.com/wiki/index.php/Windows_Media_Player_for_Windows_-_Setup_Guide#New_info_on_Windows_Media_Player_12 About HDCD playback: samples are not 20bit, they are 24bit MS surprises ;-) I don't know, maybe because of sound card drivers resolution steps support (simply only 8/16/24, all PCM streams between these values must be interpreted as a resolution directly supported and set in the system by the sound card driver). For CD/HDCD and some audio traces in video playback, WMP12 in W7 doesn't use MF pipeline yet, in this case for audio it uses directsound (dsound.dll is active), the problem with 20bits could be related to this, despite of the fact its emulated. IMHO HDCDs are in relation to WMP intended for direct playback only (wmp can"t rip HDCDs as 20/24 bit resolution wavs, nor interpret hdcd packets in 16bit ripped wav or wmal, to my knowledge), so if only playback, it must be "played back" with resolution supported by the driver and set in the system.thank you for HDCD test on 7 No no, i thank you for porting this superb plugin for wmp also. I really like the principles it uses for filtering and also the way you've done it. Filtering through TB Isone might at the end sound more pleasant (because of added ROOM and HRTF designer), but if you disable or set all settings to minimum, you get the fundament the whole vst is build on. From visual comparing of suitable test signals in audition filtered through both plugins is clear, that this fundament is much better (IMHO!!! of course) done in BS2B (very smooth time delay and frequency attenuation, much better than in TB Isone). I know some parts of latest posts about BS2B for WMP might not belong to this thread, but the whole bs2b thread is in fb2k forum, so its up to admin.