Recent content by Stone-D

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There are no 'plugins' - just edit the text files or use the editor. A total guess because I don't have a 7.1 system, but in the upmixer.txt file you could have: The first deals with stereo, the second with existing 5.1 content. For movies, you could also use AC3Filter. It's not been updated...

I completely understand, I went through the exact same process with browsers. Actually my journey started because of Foobar2000 - they both act this way, stereo embedded in surround. BTW, I went through a lot of different versions of the drivers and found Ferather's to be the best when your...

The reason that is happening is because browsers and many other apps are using the Windows Audio Session API (WASAPI) and it's apparently difficult to not output 6 channels. This means that stereo audio is still being sent as multichannel, with the unused channels staying silent. The easiest...

Look at the speaker layout picture to the right. It should change as you select different options. Choose the one that matches your setup - probably the one with four speakers and NO box (subwoofer) in the top right.

Agreed, but a lot of the blame lies with Microsoft. Apparently it's due to Windows Audio Session API (WASAPI) and it's apparently difficult to not output 6 channels. I posted about this and got my answer on Reddit and and Hydrogen Audio.

My set-it-and-leave-it solution to web browsers is to force all browser audio through VB-Cable (specifically the free VBCABLE_Driver_Pack43.zip, though I do have the others for use in OBS). This 'virtual cable' downmixes all of that application's audio to stereo, which E-APO can then work with...

FYI, the file you uploaded is actually a regular ZIP file, not 7-Zip. That might throw a few unpackers off.

Yeah I ended up donating to get the full set of VB-Cables, instead of just the free ones (you get more freebies with Voicemeeter). Haven't installed C/D though as I don't need them yet. If you want multichannel you need to use Voicemeeter's virtual input. Ever since I followed your silent...

Ahhh, gotcha. I thought you meant that there was a way for E-APO to detect silent channels. Eg, if Chrome always outputs 6 channels but only uses 2, E-APO will notice the dead channels and treat it like 2 channels. As it is, unless I'm badly mistaken, using If: inputChannelCount == 2 or...

What trick is this?

Are there any registry or policy settings that determine how the Realtek Audio Console looks? Mine is gigantic and cannot be resized or maximized. Attempting to resize just results in a lot of mad flickering. 38" ultrawide. It's not a big deal, just puzzling.

Okay, cheers. How do I go about selecting a preset to use? Do I have to be in Stereo mode? Do I even have to do anything if I'm only using multichannel SPDIF all the time?

Ok thanks. I had a look in the Ultra pack and they seem to be device-specific and contained files that would be replaced by the Ferather pack anyway, so I skipped it. Do these custom presents have any effect in multi channel mode?

Thank you so much for this, Ferather! I have a Realtek ALC1220P (MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk, board revision 2.2 - previous versions used the ALC1200 codec), output to Logitech Z906 with both analogue and digital. After a week of lurking (first I caught up with 100 or so pages of Alan's thread, then...