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User-Mode Audio Components - Win32 apps | Microsoft …
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/coreaudio/user-mode-audio-components
The audio engine runs in its own protected process, which is separate from the process that the application runs in. To support a shared-mode stream, the Windows audio service (the box labeled "Audio Service" in the …
Windows Settings: Sample rate, bit depth and shared …
https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=73225.0
Shared mode (as opposed to "exclusive" mode) is when all your apps "share" the audio device and thus the mixer in Vista is used. Since you might have different sampling rates for different audio streams, everything will be resampled to what you set in the Vista "playback devices" advanced properties.
What is shared mode and what are the effects of raising ...
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just what it says: shared mode allows multiple applications/processes to use the sound card simultaneously using the specified settings, and if an application/process doesn't use those settings (like your web browser), windows should internally process …
Exclusive-Mode Streams - Win32 apps | Microsoft Docs
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/coreaudio/exclusive-mode-streams
In contrast, several applications can share an audio endpoint device by opening shared-mode streams on the device. Exclusive-mode access to an audio device can block crucial system sounds, prevent interoperability with other applications, and …
Dolby Atmos not working in shared mode - Microsoft Community
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/dolby-atmos-not-working-in-shared-mode/7babb207-208f-4803-886e-2ec6e47027b0
In reply to Phillip Pio's post on May 14, 2017. Hi. There is an option in Playback Devices>Advanced called " Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device". That's *exclusive* (WASAPI) mode, as opposed to shared mode. In other words, shared mode is when the audio device isn't being reserved by a single application.
Set up a shared or guest PC with Windows 10/11 - …
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/set-up-shared-or-guest-pc
Configuring Shared PC mode for Windows. You can configure Windows to be in shared PC mode in a couple different ways: Mobile device management (MDM): Shared PC mode is enabled by the SharedPC configuration service provider (CSP). To setup a shared device policy for Windows client in Intune, complete the following steps:
Windows 10 Upsampling? Best settings? | Audio Science ...
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/windows-10-upsampling-best-settings.14700/
Since the Windows Audio engine has to mix all the sources using the audio output in shared mode and they can be in different sample rates, Windows resamples everything to the selected rate and depth unless it is already at that rate. This setting does not come into play if the source is playing directly to the sound device using WASAPI or ASIO direct mode bypassing the …
What is exclusive mode and what does it do? - Microsoft ...
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/what-is-exclusive-mode-and-what-does-it-do/26922597-f6c8-4080-a675-199e37f37a0b
Some audio drivers talk straight to the sound card, bypassing the Windows audio engine. If they do they need exclusive access otherwise you can get very unpredictable results like a second audio stream sending its output to this device using a different sample rate and of course, as the first stream by passes the mixer, the result is garbage as ...
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