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2 Feb 2012 by _Maxxx_
I don't think DirectSound handles MP3 format - so you would have to take the MP3, decompress it then play itSee here[^] for one way of doing so...
3 Oct 2012 by Maxim Kartavenkov
You are wrong abt DirectShow. That is possible to make using DirectShow without problems: you should write filter which will do providing data, you downloading, to upstream filters.DirectShow uses the DirectSound for playback, but standalone DirectSound does not performs the decoding (mp3...
21 Jul 2013 by H.Brydon
No can do. Sound cards don't do that sort of thing.If your app of interest plays sounds when events occur, you can fix that though. To do this, open the "Sound" control panel, click on "Sounds" tab. If your app shows up in the list, you can modify the sound selections for that app's...
2 Oct 2013 by Eduard Keilholz
DirectX (DirectSound) should be a good solution for WindowXP. You need to create a Filter (see the examples of DirectX, there are a couple of filter examples) and then make sure sounds are being played using a graph that includes your filter.Your filter must then provide information about...
8 Feb 2011 by Seyed Hamed Khatami
Hi everyone,I need a simple example that shows how to capture sound from the microphone using DirectSound. Need this in C#.Please guide me.
3 Mar 2011 by thefiloe
Hey i m using this project DLL Source For Buffer-based MP3 Decoding[^]to decode a mp3 in a livestream and so i want to play it. but how can i write the output to a stream in directsound. Please help i cant find anything... have been using google 4 four days now
13 Dec 2011 by santiti
sorry for my english...I want to make an application, from a wav audio, creates another audio cutting some pieces of original audio detecting silence, for example. I want to do it with DirectSound, but I'm not sure what methods to use Can anyone help me???!!!
13 Dec 2011 by santiti
I want to cut pieces of an audio wav and to create a new audio wav with this pieces. I want to do it with DirectSoud, but I don´t know wath methodos I have to use.Can anybody help me?Or does anybody know a library to do it?thank you.
2 Feb 2012 by NeptuneHACK!
Hello Guys,I wish to know, how can I write a code that can utilize "DirectSound" Technologies to play my MP3 audio files.I couldn't figure it out, and I don't wanna use the Built-in MediaPlayer, I want to use a whole new separated way of playing Audio Sound.Awaiting your...
2 Feb 2012 by Silent Guardian
there is an opensource .net library called naudio which can provide lot of functionality including effects.check this out.
26 Mar 2012 by Brian_Ward
A few years ago I wrote some software for amateur radio that generates a morsecode ID on a user selected interval and send it over your radio to identify your station automatically.(This is a 10 minute interval for US stations). Recently I got a request to allow the option of choosing a...
2 Oct 2012 by NexusNemesis
Hi,You will be needing the DirectX SDK and you can go to this site http://doc.51windows.net/Directx9_SDK/?url=/directx9_sdk/htm/directmusicctutorials.htm[^] for the detailed tutorial on how to play audio files using directx.Hope this helps, Thanks!Nexus,codedoppler.blogspot.com
6 Jun 2013 by petershl
if i create a main buffer in directsound, that means the main buffer lost the mixer function?if that it is , can i use the Mixer API to replace this function?
6 Jun 2013 by KarstenK
read the api documentation, your question lecks source code....
29 Aug 2014 by Robopike
Hi all, I need some help on using microsoft driectx directsound with Vb.net. I'm using VS2010 EE on W7 pro SP1. I can't get started i just get error massages like "An unhandled exception of type 'System.BadImageFormatException' occurred in System.Windows.Forms.dll".I'm not experanced in...
29 Aug 2014 by Dave Kreskowiak
You're getting this message because you're trying to mix 32- and 64-bit code in the same process.You probably compiled your application to target "Any CPU", which will run you're code as 32-bit on 32-bit Windows and 64-bit on 64-bit Windows. The problem with this is when you install 32-bit...
17 Oct 2016 by Stijn.N
HelloI have to write a text adventure for school in C# in visual studio 2015. I have made a little starting menu with some options. While the menu is displayed some background music is playing. When you choose an option from the menu a little sound is played but it stops the background music...
18 Jun 2012 by Petr Ivankov
Applications of abstract math theories to practice
15 Oct 2014 by hevesir
This is a simple electric organ (piano) to teach how to synthesize sound with directsound.
8 Feb 2011 by Nish Nishant
This was the first google hit on this topic:http://khason.net/blog/capturing-and-streaming-sound-by-using-directsound-with-c/[^]The blogger seems to be a former Microsoft employee.
7 May 2011 by Member 7829020
Hi;I don't know where the problem is occurring, but I'm trying to use the DirectX SDK to play an MP3 file. My code is as follows:using System;using System.Collections.Generic;using System.Linq;using System.Text;using Microsoft.DirectX;using...
17 Oct 2016 by #realJSOP
SoundPlayer cannot play two sounds at the same time. You're gonna have to do more work:new System.Threading.Thread(() => { var c = new System.Windows.Media.MediaPlayer(); c.Open(new System.Uri(@"Path_to\myfile1.wav")); c.Play(); }).Start();new...
1 Oct 2012 by Igor-84
Hello! I have a question - how to play mp3 and aac files (that downloaded in the same time) using DirectSound or DirectShow?My experiments with DirectShow showed that the DirectShow does not play files that are currently filling with data.And DirectSound supports streamed playing, but in the...
21 Jul 2013 by Essaid Essaghir
How do I remove music from sound card output programmatically, so for any app playing sound (browser, media player ...) the output sound would filter the sound for music and remove it ?Thank you in advance.
2 Oct 2013 by Member 10265930
Hello!I need your help!I need create peak meter (vu meter) on windows XP.I tried make it with WASAPI, EndPointVolume and other, but these techonogies doesn't support WinXPI tried learn DirectSound, MCI and it ended in failure.What i need use? And how i need use it?I use VS and...