JesseG

[quote author=”mick heaphy”]so in theory i could use vac or use both to process 2 seperate sources through the same breakaway instence?[/quote]
you don’t need any more than 1 vac or 1 pipeline to do that… they both are multi-client on input and output on all of the APIs they support (wave/mme, ds/directsound, ks/kernel streaming)

Yes, it installs as its own driver separate from Breakaway Pipeline. You can use both at the same time as well, no problems. You can even uninstall Breakaway Pipeline manually in Device Manager without problem UNLESS of course you’re using Breakaway Audio Enhancer which will only accept input from one.

You should still be able to output the sound from SAM right?

[quote author=”irish”](1) what is the background of the people/person who developed this software.[/quote]
broadcast audio processing frrrrrreak

[quote author=”irish”](2) What general settings would you suggest for someone listening to music or watching videos, with a realtek soundcard, and speakers that probably didn’t cost more than 2o euro euros, on a laptop and desktop.[/quote]
Whatever sounds best in the acoustic space they are in, from the preferred listening spot. It depends on what videos you’re watching too. If you’re watching movies and standardized TV productions, then you know pretty well what to expect of the input, and you can get by with a lot less processing than you would probably want on something like random YouTube videos.

[quote author=”irish”](3) when playing something, after a while the program would make an odd noise, spluttering might be the best way to describe it. Then afterwards, i would hear crackling noise when playing something. I think though the format, of the file might have something to do with it, as it only seems to happen on some files, and then, not on all those type of files.[/quote]
It could be that you don’t have enough buffering or a "fluid" enough combination of length/count. Sometimes a combination that results in a longer total buffer can be less stable than some other combination. It also could be that you have a naughty driver on your system that has DPC latency spikes. Try disabling all networking and usb devices in your device manager, and see if that solves the problem. There’s also a few DPC latency checking programs around the internet, if you want to track down the culprit.

That isn’t possible without invasive memory programming, which would have to have crazy heuristics, and would still probably need to be adapted for a bunch of different versions, of just one software (of millions). And it would be a support nightmare. (im an ex game hacker, trust me, this is right up my alley)

Did you find the Breakaway toolbar in Windows’ taskbar yet? 🙂

It doesn’t, but that’s a good idea for an upgrade. Thanks for the idea. Definitely could always use some more statistics.

That being said, in any testing I’ve seen… the tuner doesn’t rely on the pilot at all for RDS, which is why RDS still works when doing things like AutoPilot… Leif’s true-mono detection that fades out the pilot, for noise reduction purposes. 🙂 I’m not sure if that was part of the testing of the Omnia.9 @ NPR Labs, but I would guess it was, since it’s always on, and they would have noticed. Hehehe.