[wdmaudiodev] Re: Windows Vista SP1 and 24-bit audio
- From: "Daniel E. Germann" <deg@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:27:58 -0500
Hi, Jeff.
Hmmm. Very interesting.
I did a quick test with the WDK (Build 6000) MSVAD PCMEX sample (after
changing MAX_BITS_PER_SAMPLE_PCM to 24 in pcmex.h), and when I changed
dwChannelMask to KSAUDIO_SPEAKER_DIRECTOUT, the Advanced tab didn't even
show up anymore. Changing dwChannelMask back to KSAUDIO_SPEAKER_STEREO
restored the Advanced tab. That's really strange.
Our driver is based on MSVAD (and other sample code), so perhaps there's
code in our driver that propagated from MSVAD (that isn't in your driver)
that causes this problem under Windows Vista SP1. I've tried changing just
about everything else, and this was the only change that brought back all
our 24-bit audio formats. And everything worked just fine pre-SP1.
I'm more than happy to take it on the chin and say this is all my problem.
I'm just at a loss as to how to explain what's going on.
And I guess that brings me back to the question I've asked before (as have
several others): what audio-related things changed in SP1? Is there anyone
at Microsoft who's reading this thread that could help us out?
Thank you!
Best regards,
-Dan
--
Dan Germann
Digital Audio Labs
-----Original Message-----
From: "Jeff Pages" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [wdmaudiodev] Re: Windows Vista SP1 and 24-bit audio
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:53:42 +1000
Hi Daniel,
Out of curiousity I just tried changing the dwChannelMask returned by
DataRangeIntersection() in one of my drivers to KSAUDIO_SPEAKER_DIRECTOUT
and I still see the 24-bit modes in the playback properties under SP1.
Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: "Daniel E. Germann" <deg@xxxxxxxx>
To: <wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 6:24 PM
Subject: [wdmaudiodev] Re: Windows Vista SP1 and 24-bit audio
Well, I *finally* figured out the problem. If you eliminate everything
else, whatever remains must be the bug (apologies to Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle).
If the pWaveFormatEx->dwChannelMask returned by DataRangeIntersection() is
set to KSAUDIO_SPEAKER_DIRECTOUT, no 24-bit formats show up in Windows Vista
SP1, as they did in earlier OS releases (including Windows Vista RTM).
Setting pWaveFormatEx->dwChannelMask to KSAUDIO_SPEAKER_STEREO makes the
24-bit formats reappear.
The WDK docs state that, "KSAUDIO_SPEAKER_DIRECTOUT represents a
configuration with no speakers and is defined in Ksmedia.h as zero. In this
configuration, the audio device renders the first channel to the first port
on the device, the second channel to the second port on the device, and so
on."
[ms-help://MS.WDK.v10.6000/Audio_r/hh/Audio_r/aud-prop_d40f094e-44f9-4baa-8a
15-03e4fb369501.xml.htm]
I don't understand why specifying that the channels on an audio device are
not associated with any particular speaker locations would make any
difference in the bit-ness of audio Windows Vista SP1 would decide to
support for the device. This audio card is used in multi-card
configurations where the audio is definitely NOT front left and front right
-- hence, our choice to use KSAUDIO_SPEAKER_DIRECTOUT.
Can anyone at Microsoft shed some light on this new behavior? It seems like
a bug to me.
For now, I guess we'll kludge the driver to return KSAUDIO_SPEAKER_STEREO on
Windows Vista systems. But it would be nice if this were fixed (or at least
explained).
Will this behavior also be present in Windows Server 2008 (i.e., does it
have the Windows Vista SP1 audio stack)?
Best regards,
-Dan
--
Dan Germann
Digital Audio Labs
-----Original Message-----
From: "Jeff Pages" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [wdmaudiodev] Re: Windows Vista SP1 and 24-bit audio
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 09:07:13 +1000
Hi Dan,
If you'd like to send me your DataRangeIntersection handler off-list I'll
cast a quick eye over it and see if I can spot anything that might be
upsetting things.
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel E. Germann" <deg@xxxxxxxx>
To: <wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 7:31 AM
Subject: [wdmaudiodev] Re: Windows Vista SP1 and 24-bit audio
> Hi, Jeff.
>
> Thanks for the quick reply! I made sure my DataRangeIntersection handler
> replied "SUCCESS" when MaximumBitsPerSample came in as 24. Unfortunately,
> there must be something else going on, because all the 24-bit formats are
> still missing.
>
> I tried returning the resultant wave format with both wBitsPerSample=24
> and
> wValidBitsPerSample=24, and also wBitsPerSample=32 and
> wValidBitsPerSample=24. Neither did the trick. I'm making sure to
> compute
> nBlockAlign and nAvgBytesPerSecond properly, and I'm updating
> DataFormat.SampleSize to nBlockAlign.
>
> The debug output looks like what I'd expect. One example is:
>
> DataRangeIntersection(2)
> DataRangeIntersection(2)
> client range PCM 96000-96000 kHz, 24-24 bits, 2 channels
> my range 96000-96000 kHz, 16-32 bits, 2 channels
> negotiated PCM 96000 kHz, 24/32 bits, stereo
>
> That means that with the stated pClientDataRange and pMyDataRange as
> input,
> the resulting WaveFormat was nSamplesPerSec=96000, wBitsPerSample=32,
> wValidBitsPerSample=24, and nChannels=2, and that the return was
> STATUS_SUCCESS.
>
> But 96 kHz, 24 bits/sample does not show up in the control panel.
>
> Like I said before, this driver is working fine on everything from Windows
> 2000 SP3 to Windows Vista RTM.
>
> Can anyone from Microsoft shed any light on this? What changes
> (validation,
> error checking, ???) were made in Windows Vista SP1 that might prevent
> 24-bit data formats from showing up in a driver that's been working until
> SP1 was installed?
>
> Best regards,
> -Dan
> --
> Dan Germann
> Digital Audio Labs
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Jeff Pages" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [wdmaudiodev] Re: Windows Vista SP1 and 24-bit audio
> Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 09:16:58 +1000
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> I had the same problem. Check your DataRangeIntersection handler and make
> sure it's not rejecting PKSDATARANGE_AUDIO requests with
> MaximumBitsPerSample set to 24. Although the WDK documentation (under "PCM
> High Bitdepth Stream Data Range") says that MaximumBitsPerSample is set to
> the container size (in this case 32 bits), Vista doesn't.
>
> In my case it appeared that the RTM build of Vista ignored my
> STATUS_NO_MATCH return, but SP1 didn't and therefore disallowed all 24-bit
> formats. Once I made my DataRangeIntersection handler accept a
> MaximumBitsPerSample value of 24, everything was sweet.
>
> Jeff Pages
> Innes Corporation Pty Ltd
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel E. Germann" <deg@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 7:29 AM
> Subject: [wdmaudiodev] Windows Vista SP1 and 24-bit audio
>
>
>> We've had several customers report that after installing Windows Vista
>> SP1,
>> all the 24-bit formats disappear from the Advanced tab for our devices in
>> the Sound control panel. We checked, and sure enough, all the 24-bit
>> formats that used to be there with RTM are gone with SP1.
>>
>> Is there anything that would have changed with SP1 that would cause this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Dan
>> --
>> Dan Germann
>> Digital Audio Labs
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