Mpxplay 1.60 not initializing SB Live! (emu10k1) correctly
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Hi,
The machine I'm talking about is an old (Dell) Pentium 4 with SB Live! (emu10k1). I haven't used it much in recent years, and I only halfway resurrected it, just for fun.
Apparently Mpxplay 1.60 isn't correctly initializing the soundcard. Maybe I need to fiddle with some settings, but by default it makes no sound at all.
However, there are two other programs that, once run on an actual music file, will indeed initialize the sound. Thus, after that, Mpxplay will work correctly. (Even after warm boot but not cold boot!)
Just for comparison (the two programs that initialize correctly, albeit closed source):
1). Live! Module Player
ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/sound/lmp09.zip
2). Quickview Pro (shareware) -we$EMU10K1.SDR
http://www.multimediaware.com/qv/download.htm
Yes, It seems I have the same issue.
In my case I have 2 speakers (left and right) connected but only the left one makes sound and the right one is silent. It can't be cured by simple valume adjustment inside Mpxplay.
I have model Sound blaster Live! value [CT4830].
What is interesting: if you play some soundfile with QuickView (with EMU10K1 driver) before running Mpxplay the problem disappears. So it seems that initialisation routine in Mpxplay is not complete in some way.
I made some experiments with help from assembler source file of EMU10K1.SDR of QuickView Pro. I tried to setup the volume registers on the card but it didn't help.
QuickView "cures" Mpxplay only if the sound is played.
So I "fixed" this issue in AUTOEXEC.BAT by adding this line:
C:\QV\QV -we$C:\QV\EMU10K1.SDR SILENCE.WAV
(silence.wav is 500ms of silence)