Loops with XP´s Mediaplayer in "Pause Mode"

es1276 · Post by **es1276** » Thu Jan 17, 2002 7:36 am

Since I use my Pulsar II with WindowsXP Pro and Pulsar Software 3.01b, there are problems with applications that use the Windows MME Driver:
When I play MP3s or so with the Windows Mediaplayer and press "Pause"
button of the player, I hear loops that sound like the skipping of a
record.
Same thing with other applications.
Any ideas ?

Best regards
Ewald

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Thu Jan 17, 2002 8:09 am

I had the same proble, just reinstall DX 8.1

es1276 · Post by **es1276** » Sun Jan 20, 2002 11:38 pm

How can I reinstall DirectX 8.1 for WindowsXP ? I can´t find any installable files for DX8.1 on the CDROM.

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Mon Jan 21, 2002 5:10 am

http://www.microsoft.com ?

es1276 · Post by **es1276** » Mon Jan 21, 2002 7:42 am

Thanks for the link.
Microsoft´s website doesn´t have any information about reinstalling DX 8.1 for XP!

There´s no download DX8.1 for XP available.
(MS says: Because it´s included in XP)

The Yahoo and Google newsgroups say:
Reinstallation in XP is not possible.

Did anyone in the group find a way to reinstall DX8.1 on XP ?

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Max3020 · Post by **Max3020** » Tue Jan 22, 2002 5:47 pm

This is on of my problems too.!
I do use also Win XP!
example when i use CD-Xtract and click on a sound to listen and while listen if i click on another sound it loops to hell till the new sound comes to hear.!
its really enoying.!
But will the Re-install of DX 8.1 really help? i will watch out.!!

Funktastico · Post by **Funktastico** » Wed Jan 23, 2002 4:52 am

Has anyone tried installing the Win2k version of DX 8.1 in XP ?

kensuguro · Post by **kensuguro** » Wed Jan 23, 2002 2:15 pm

I'm back from Taiwan and finally back in the Pulsarian community. Hey, cheers for the tip!! I had the same problem.

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dblbass · Post by **dblbass** » Wed Jan 23, 2002 9:21 pm

from Microsoft website:

NOTE : DirectX is a system component. After installation, the DirectX 8.1 run time cannot be uninstalled without reinstalling your operating system.

and

DirectX 8.1 is already included in Microsoft Windows XP. Attempting to install the DirectX 8.1 run times on Windows XP will have no effect.

this latter message more or less repeated on the DX8.1 download pages.

Marcuspocus, did you just run the DX8.1 install anyway, or replace certain dlls by hand, or what. And is that all you did to fix this little problem?

Also, elsewhere in DX8.1 help pages, I noticed that for "choppy" sound playback, Msft recommends adjusting the hardware acceleration slider in

CntrlPnl>Multimedia>Audio>Performance

up or down til you find a setting which works. I'm having the same problem as other posters above. If I hit pause in WinMediaPlyr thru my pulsar wav driver, I get little loops. Also sometimes on playback under CDxtract. I'll try fiddling with this setting as soon I get back to my Pulsar box.

BTW, forgive my ignorance, but I'm wondering. In this case (and equally in video card performance) does more "hardware acceleration" mean more work is done by the card's hardware or by the mainboard (CPU).

I mean, which hardware is accelerating? I find this confusing. I presume if your card has the muscle, you want to rely more on its own processor, provided the drivers don't get mucked up interfacing to the card. So does anybody know, is this setting really a buffer setting determine the size of the data chunks that are sent by the driver to the card, or what? How's this really work?

ms86171 · Post by **ms86171** » Sun Apr 28, 2002 4:22 pm

Hi there,
just open the windows/system32/dxdiag.exe and click on sound tab. Set the directX function "Audio hardware acc." (in german: (Einstellung der Sound-Hardwarebeschleunigung) to no acc. (keine beschleunigung).

That´s it!

glockh210 · Post by **glockh210** » Mon Apr 29, 2002 5:58 am

I'm having the same problem. Does the solution in that last posting work? Just curious before I try it...has anyone verified this...

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Mon Apr 29, 2002 6:07 pm

Sorry to respond so late... I'm sorry in fact, i didn't get it at first you were on XP...SO sorry, don't know how, never met this on XP....

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Wed May 01, 2002 7:51 pm

This did it for me, I took it from the CW forum:

1) Start -> Run -> dxdiag.exe
This loads the DirectX Diagnostic Tool(windows/system32/dxdiag.exe)
2) Click on the Sound Tab
3) Pull down the Hardware Sound Acceleration Level to No Acceleration

janila · Post by **janila** » Fri May 03, 2002 3:33 am

Doesn't work for me.

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Wed Oct 09, 2002 6:49 am

On 2002-04-28 17:22, ms86171 wrote:
Hi there,
just open the windows/system32/dxdiag.exe and click on sound tab. Set the directX function "Audio hardware acc." (in german: (Einstellung der Sound-Hardwarebeschleunigung) to no acc. (keine beschleunigung).

That´s it!

This solved the problem again, now under 3.1c.

I thought it might be usefull to bring it back up