MPC-HC Audio Renderer?

[Island_Dweller]

Hi all, I recently got an Asus Xonar D2X sound card and since then I've come across a lot of literature on how to get MPC-HC to ouput audio directly to the sound card without going through the Windows Mixer. However, I'm using Windows XP SP3 and I'm unsure how to set this up.

Basically, I want the Audio decoder inside MPC-HC (Internal or External) to ouput PCM with the same bit depth, sampling rate and number of channels to the sound card. I want the sound card to do the required downmixing / upmixing as needed, depending on whether I'm using headphones or 7.1 speakers.

Here's a list of the Audio renderers that show up in MPC-HC.



Any thoughts?

[somespirit]

i think there is no need to bypass Windows mixer, you can select any DirectSound Device of your sound card, it is a bit short than System Default

in MPC-HC Audio Decoder properties dialog uncheck Mixer (so this will do audio driver if needed) and check all Output sample formats, mpc-hc will decide which one is best to use

in mpc-hc Audio switcher properties dialog select Pin: Out ,you will see

.......
- Connection media type:
Audio: PCM 44100Hz stereo 1411kbps
.........

this is what is sending to Sound (DirectSound) Device

[Island_Dweller]

Sweet! I never knew about the Pin: Out thing! Yet one more reason why I love MPC-HC.

Thanks for your help, somespirit!

I ended up going with renderer 6 above. So far, AAC, MP3, Flac, AC3, THD, DTS, DTS-HDMA all seem to work as I want them to. I will experiment some more.

[somespirit]

one little correction, in MPC-HC Audio Decoder properties dialog check only int32 and Float for Output sample formats, so the audio decoder will send audio without any loss to Sound Device