Hi Dirk, We will be changing our surround format and multi-channel fold-down issue going forward for sure. This is a known issue. KMixer is connected to the driver at some standard format (48k stereo or something like that), but then ratchets to the requested format, if the driver supports it (unless I am recalling incorrectly). The problem with what you suggest is that today's KMixer can't be inserted/deleted on the fly. This is why we would have never promised that, but we did say that we would make things a lot more transparent between the app's requested format and the driver. Thanks, Martin Puryear (martinp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Development Manager, Audio/Video Devices Group This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. -----Original Message----- From: wdmaudiodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdmaudiodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Van Mieghem, Dirk Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 12:48 PM To: 'wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [wdmaudiodev] Windows Media 9 Hi all, anyone tested Windows Media 9 5.1/7.1 surround encoding/decoding already? It seems that KMixer gets really confused when a surround format is played and another playback stream has to be mixed in. The 2nd stream is completely garbled, is this a known issue on WXP/SP1? Why is it that a driver doesn't see the requested playback datarange in its intersection call? Why can't KMixer behave the same as for a recording stream? If the hardware supports the requested format then KMixer shouldn't be inserted. I believe this was once promised by Microsoft but no sign of it so far. Thanks, Dirk ****************** WDMAUDIODEV addresses: Post message: mailto:wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subscribe: mailto:wdmaudiodev-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe Unsubscribe: mailto:wdmaudiodev-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe Moderator: mailto:wdmaudiodev-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx URL to WDMAUDIODEV page: http://www.wdmaudiodev.de/ ****************** WDMAUDIODEV addresses: Post message: mailto:wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subscribe: mailto:wdmaudiodev-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe Unsubscribe: mailto:wdmaudiodev-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe Moderator: mailto:wdmaudiodev-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx URL to WDMAUDIODEV page: http://www.wdmaudiodev.de/