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Yes, I see your point. I’ll ask the question and get back to you.
My guess is that 48K is probably only possible/allowed at the higher bitrates, so 44.1K is the best you can get i.e. the “Optimum” sample rate. Wiki tells me that AAC can handle sample rates to 96kHz, so I need to research further.
Check this link https://ceaforum.net/?topic=breakaway-one-3-30-93-released
Are you using HE-AAC or AAC? HE-AAC is optimised for low bitrates (up to 160 kbps), so I’m not even sure that 48 kHz is relevant.
If you are using AAC, why not just select 48 kHz from the drop-down box?
A configuration dump is typically used if you need to send information to CEA in response to a bug, or to apply for a licence.
There is also an option to save your entire configuration and setup to a zipped file. this can be imported to set up a fresh install rather than having to go through every setting manually.
To help explain the rather unusual syntax of the command line, I have snipped an image from the video, so that you can see it graphically.
Click the link to view.
https://ceaforum.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-03-01-084520-1.jpgPlease tell your friend 😂 that I truly don’t know the rollout timeline, nor testing plans at this stage.
Yes, I copied and pasted all requests into a spreadsheet and now the development team are prioritising them all.
I have included that as it was requested by another member.
Watch this space, as I know that there has been some recent movement in the development arena.
No hints, no timelines.
FM multipath causes signal interference due to the receiver receiving the signal from multiple paths.
It’s not possible to completely fix it in software, but what exacerbates the problem is stereo separation, due to it increasing the bandwidth of the FM carrier, and we can control that in software.
The Multipath Mitigation control will reduce stereo separation of only frequencies with extreme stereo separation, with very high resolution (something like 1000 frequency bands), meaning an almost imperceptible, usually completely imperceptible reduction in overall stereo width, while tightly controlling the final RF bandwidth and reducing the risk of multipath-induced distortion. It doesn’t eliminate it though, we can only do so much, but it’s probably a worthwhile setting to keep on for most stations.
Low, Medium, High simply adjusts the aggressiveness with which it is applied.
Does it affect the audio quality? Almost imperceptibly in areas where signal strength is good, but definitely provides an improvement in areas where the signal may arrive at the receiver via multiple paths.
I am truly sorry that you have had such a bad experience using Breakaway One. Of the many, many copies sold around the world and working in real-life situations (including my two stations), no-one has come across such a situation as you describe, and that’s what makes it so hard to resolve.
It seems to be something unique to your particular hardware/software combination, and even then, it seems to have evolved, because it was working on your original hardware as I understand it, so only started to show this unusual behaviour when the equipment was replaced. This immediately points to something new in the hardware configuration that is contributing to the problem. Although the devices involved are ostensibly the same, we have no way of knowing if the actual componentry or device driver is identical.
For example, I have two “identical” dashcams in my motor vehicles, both from the same manufacturer, and with the same software revision, yet one behaves differently from the other.Maybe the chipset that Leif used and recommended to you (and was obviously in the original configuration as well) has been superseded. Maybe an OS update on the PC you are using has replaced the original device driver with something generic. You need to go through each part of the broadcast chain to eliminate these sorts of possibilities.
As an aside regarding the forum software, there was some reason why Keith chose to drop the original forum software in favour of this system. I don’t know if it was just a great sales pitch, or whether there were licencing issues. Sadly, we will never know, but we must work with the tools we have been given.
