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go to device manager, use the "show hidden devices" option, and you should see it in there if the driver is still installed, even if it’s not loaded. if not, then it’s not installed. cheers.
the main thing is Broadcast has the clipper that doesn’t do much good in streaming, unless you want to be excessively loud. (aka too loud imo)
You’ll want to use Live because -A- it’s capable of phase linear filtering, for higher quality sound, and -B- it can have any soundcard set for input and output so you can have an all digital setup. Also -C- it can load your encoder plugin directly into itself.
With "BAE" you would have to use an external encoder, and use the soundcard’s mixer to record from, and generally is asking for more chance of glitching, and lower quality sound, from that alone. BAE itself is made to be only for very low latency consumer use, which is why the sound quality for broadcast could be slightly better, and a great reason to go for Live alone.
Add in the speaker calibration stuff that runs AFTER any encoder plugins, and you get an optimized studio experience as well, or go for pure stability and don’t output to any soundcard at all, only the loaded encoders getting any processed audio. 8)
i wish Passive Aggressor was out now. i would just recommend you use it. but, alas, it’s not out yet.
the spam links weren’t there before. i’m going to have a look at the captcha settings on here, and see if they can be made to work better, not necessarily harder for humans to read. until then, bandana gets his name shortened to ban. 😛
Yep, usually the 1st devices that cause troubles are networking & usb, because of bad/old drivers. Not the hardware’s fault. If you check the DPC Latency, with DPC Latency Checker (zing!), then you’ll SEE the huge difference in lag spikes with those devices on or off. 😉
[quote author=”Milky”]What are you guys on? I want what you’re having.[/quote]
Seriously? It sounds like DMT. By the way… your brain makes several "doses" worth while you sleep.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyltryptamine
Every night we go to sleep, and our conscience brain just shuts down for this, makes its own DMT, and nobody really knows exactly what’s going on. 😀 I think it’s pretty incredible, and yes I’ve tried DMT while conscience and it’s something very special & powerful, and should not to be abused.All the usual stuff, update chipset, usb, gpu, audio, and networking drivers… check DPC Latency (do a search here)…
and of course you’ll have to tweak the buffer size and number of buffers used by Breakaway to get optimum results with the lowest latency possible. I’ve found in many cases where slightly smaller buffer sizes can be more stable than larger ones. Or 2 times the amount of buffers that are half the size. You really can’t tell until you optimize it for each computer, because there can be many things effecting it. Windows itself, the drivers for the hardware, and the hardware itself.
Try those suggestions, and if you’re still not getting results, tell us your DPC latency peak, and also some basic system specs and what audio card you’re using. 🙂 Oh, and I moved your topic from the MPXTool forum to the correct forum. You really lucked out that I just happened to check it tonight, as I probably only check it every few months, lol.
[quote author=”Guillou”]I’m very sad that leifcast isn’t available for download. Because I’m trying to have a better sound with a 128k mp3 stream and I can’t… Even if lame quality = 0 instead of 2….[/quote]Check here:
http://pastebin.com/cPpSCeqGThat’s the list of what the presets are for whatever number you enter. In a C++ enumeration, the numbers will count up each item from the last item that was defined specifically (or from zero for the 1st if non are ever defined specifically).
So "LQP_CBR" is 12. Essentially that’s the same thing as "–alt-preset cbr [bitrate]" or in new versions simply "-b [bitrate]". It’s absolutely the recommended preset to use for cbr streaming at 112kbps or above. At 96kbps or below, you might like the sound of some of the other presets more, personal preference in some cases. I think I remember Leif saying he really liked the "LQP_RADIO" preset for low bitrate streams. But do yourself a favor and just run PS-AAC in the 24-48 kbps range.
Lame 3.93.1 is my personally recommended version for 128kbps 44kHz joint stereo.
I’m doing further tweaks to the efficiency of the bitstream that allows for more bits to be allocated to audio, and in a more efficient way. Conversely I’ve also raised the low-pass up to 17.5kHz. Together it seems to be a pretty awesome combo.
[quote author=”Audio”]Does it mean that we are finally about to see the release of Leifcast? 8)[/quote]
His encoder would have even more licensing issues than mine if it were to be made public.What version of the VIA 4in1 drivers are you using? You might try an *older* version. Also be sure to try it with all networking & usb devices disabled on it, to make sure it’s not something like that causing lag spikes.
Could you please post a screenshot of Breakaway’s soundcard config with the lowest buffer settings you can use before it starts skipping? Or does it skip even with the highest possible settings?
[quote author=”Guillou”]Is your own encoder better?[/quote]"better" is subjective, and personally i think it is.
[quote author=”Guillou”]and why?[/quote]extremely robust net-code aware of the connection and device lag, including a handy dandy "lag-o-meter" to show how far behind sending the audio out you are. also… the quality i get from it for 128kbps mp3 is unmatched, even with my recommended EdCast settings posted in this topic. there’s tweaks i’m doing that can’t be done in EdCast.
[quote author=”Guillou”]Could you share it?[/quote]yes, but i won’t. not just because of licensing issues. but that is one reason.
[quote author=”Guillou”](is it already available for download ?)[/quote]nope.
yeah, a bit of a loss, but one could argue it happened 2-3 years ago really. there’s another version of EdCast that is being actively developed. http://users.tpg.com.au/radiorio/
check DPC Latency for starters
http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml
and mess around with buffers. it’s probably just that you haven’t optimized the buffers yet. 😉
