Nah with older vista drivers i had no syncing of xonar control panel with windows but new ones and windows 7 ones they do sync up. I'm in hifi mode with gx disabled, so no virtual speaker or anything fancy.
I think the xonar is working as it should. Imagne if I had a center back output coming from an application even though I don't have a physical center back channel. The xonar would and should mix this into my available surround channels so that that channel isn't completely lost in subspace. Not a direct channel copy of course.
This is why when mpc sends me back channel data. With newer drivers this is nicely mixed t sides. Not just direct channel copies but a nice upmix. It's so clear to me what's happening and what the possible solutions are. Just hoping some mpc devs do also.
OK from my understanding the xonar should give me an option on what to do in this situation, ie output nothing, or upmix to my available speakers. In any case its probably doing a good job seeing that mpc and ffdshow incorrectly and explicitly seem to be sending it data for back channels. Looking forward to input from developers on this auto detection of back versus rear, and why for my xonar 1.3 deluxe and Mercurys card both output to back (visually in mixers), when we actually have side channels.
Simple fact, ffdshow and mpc are both sending data incorrectly to the back channels (visually and digitally) and this needs to be addressed if its meant to be an automated process dependent on drivers etc.
Last edited by mark0077; 16th October 2009 at 11:01.
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