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[Pike84]

I am realy glad to see the resizing option for the ViSes, but now the ViSes all stutter cause of thier memory usage. I have a small music machine that is coupled to my HiFi.  I did not mind the older Stretching of the vises,  they looked fine on the monitor and were responsive (some more so than on thier original Sonique)
Is it possible to have the Stretch option the same as for 2.6  but a Maximise button (or some setting) that uses the new 2.7 resizing functionality?

Maybe an option to restrict the rendering dimensions, above which it is stretched? I'll look into it.

Sorry for being a bit late with this suggestion, but here goes:

I think the resizing of a vis should work just like before 2.7, but with a manual option to change the resolution. The currently used method could of course still be there as an option (something like "auto-adjust resolution" or so). How does this sound?

Something should certainly be done, because at present, some visualizations, when stretched to near full screen, are able to put my 2.4Ghz P4 down to its knees .

[edit]Comments, anyone?

[WingZero]

How come XMPlay seems to lock out any sound when the output is paused? Anytime something else tries to play anything, all I get is a buzzing noise.

[Pike84]

Yeah, I've noticed the same thing. When the playback is paused, the next sound will be a short *bzzt*. I don't know if it does that for every possible sound or anything, but at least when clicking a folder open, or stuff like that. After that, all sounds come out normally, until you pause the music again.

[Greebo]

That's a yo on the loud BZZZZ noise. Thought it was just my lame onboard soundcard messing up or something :P

[Brightguy]

I'm back with a few more vis. bugs, not too serious:

-If you uncheck "auto-resize", when you switch from an installed vis. to either spectrum, the background is not cleared.

-With "auto-resize" on, resize the MOD pattern view to the biggest it can go, and resize another vis. to the smallest it can go.  Switch back and forth between them, and sometimes the vis. will suddenly enlarge it's size to the pattern view's, and the menu bar at the top will remain blank.  (This works best when playing a MOD with a lot of channels and on centre scroll.)

-I was switching back and forth between follow and centre MOD pattern views, and I got this error message once:

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XMPLAY caused an invalid page fault in
module XMPLAY.EXE at 017f:00438446.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=017f EIP=00438446 EFLGS=00010246
EBX=00000002 SS=0187 ESP=0fc4f8f8 EBP=0fc4ff30
ECX=0000d200 DS=0187 ESI=00000004 FS=60b7
EDX=00000100 ES=0187 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
f3 af 74 29 0f b6 57 fc 6b d2 0f c1 fa 04 88 57
Stack dump:
00462058 00438064 0a862230 0a862237 00000000 0000e8b6 fefaf8f6 fe000202 fdf9fafc 00010100 ffff0000 040200ff ff000204 00ffffff 02020200 04020201

[Tsorovan]

Wow, the brain-rending BZZZZ thing...I also thought it was my soundcard's fault, as I had to fiddle around with different drivers.

It doesn't exactly sound like a healthy BZZZZ either. I thank you for figuring out what caused it.

[Ian @ un4seen]

hmm... I'm unable to reproduce this "bzzz" thing here, on Win98 or XP. This is what I tried: I paused XMPlay, and then made one of the Windows sounds play (I tried opening a dialog and also navigating in Explorer), but the sounds played correctly. Should that have produced the problem?

What Soundcard/Windows are you all using? Also, can you reproduce the problem with Winamp? (using the Waveout output)

Kynes/BG, I'll look into that vis stuff.

[Pike84]

I'm using WinXP and SoundMAX integrated audio. I haven't had any other problems with my sounds on this system.

I get the sound at least, when I click on a folder in the directory tree. That normally produces a nice *click*, but it's the *bzzz*, if XMPlay was just paused before that. I can hear the normal click behind the buzz, if I listen carefully, tho.

[Tsorovan]

I'm the chap with an M-Audio Delta Audiophile 2496. WinXP SP1. Negative on the Winamp reproducability.

[WingZero]

This only seems to happen with system sounds. If I start Windows Media Player, or something using BASS, there is no problem. If I try to play a system sound, from the control panel applet, I get a buzz. This only happens for the first sound after pausing XMPlay output. I have a C-Media CMI-8738 PCI, on Windows XP.

[Ian @ un4seen]

Ah yes, now I can reproduce it on WinXP. I think it's a Windows/driver issue, as it does happen with Winamp too. The reason you may not have noticed it with Winamp is that it seems to only happens when you set the output to 24 or 32-bit, so you would have to use the MAD plugin to get it to happen.

I wasn't able to reproduce it on Win98 or 2K (though there is a small piece of the paused sound on 2K, but that's a known Win2K thing ) ... so it appears to be an XP problem. Are all of you with the "buzzing" using WinXP and 24/32-bit output?

Note, for those with a 16-bit soundcard, there's no real benefit in setting the output to 24/32-bit anyway

[Pike84]

I was/am using 32 bit output. As you said, it happens only with 24/32.

[WingZero]

Yea, it is 32-bit... on Windows XP too.

[Tsorovan]

XP/24

[Lyle]

Sorry for being a bit late with this suggestion, but here goes:

I think the resizing of a vis should work just like before 2.7, but with a manual option to change the resolution.
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[edit]Comments, anyone?

I like it  

[Rah3D]

I've got a suggestion.

Currently, the resizing border of the info window has the same width as the thickest right/bottom/left border bitmap... Or at least it seems like this. (Too lazy to look at the documentation ATM.)

Well, I'd like to have either an additional variable in the config file which defines the sizing border width/height OR just a fixed width/height for all skins. (Would be much easier to implement afterwards, of course.)

The issue is that I barely can drag my info window around when I have very thick borders (like on X-RD2506), it's very much irritating if you hover over the title area of a window and get a "vertical sizing" cursor instead of being able to drag the win....
...Just my opinion.
By the way... I'm back from vacation, hi to everyone

[EDIT]
/me looks at xmplay.exe build that he got from Ralesk

Uhm, seems fixed already ^_^
Well, haven't been here for three weeks, may have missed a discussion about it, haven't I?  :laugh:
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[Ian @ un4seen]

That skin config option (pos_infoframe) has actually been there since v2.5

ps: I also added it to the X-RD2506 config before compiling

[Rah3D]

*D'OH!*

Why didn't tell me someone! :laugh: