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Kernel-Mode WDM Audio Components - Windows drivers ...

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/audio/kernel-mode-wdm-audio-components
    The kernel-mode Microsoft Windows Driver Model (WDM) audio components are: WDMAud System Driver. SysAudio System Driver. KMixer System Driver. Redbook System Driver. SBEmul System Driver. SWMidi System Driver. …

Kernel Streaming Considerations - Windows drivers ...

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/audio/kernel-streaming-considerations
    The Kernel Streaming considerations topic clarifies the requirements and other special considerations beyond those for all audio drivers. These are kernel streaming considerations that are more related to Bluetooth …

Microsoft Kernel System Audio Device fails - Microsoft ...

    https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/microsoft-kernel-system-audio-device-fails/4e4cdae1-5e79-4295-a1f4-cab2bb802d42
    Microsoft Kernel System Audio Device fails I can't get my sound to work. There is a yellow (!) in the Sound, Video and Game Controllers drop down tree at the file listed as "unknown device" When I try to reinstall driver The Microsoft Kernel System Audio Device fails.

About the Windows Core Audio APIs - Win32 apps | …

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/coreaudio/about-the-windows-core-audio-apis
    The Core Audio APIs were introduced in Windows Vista. This new set of user-mode audio components provide client applications with improved audio capabilities. These capabilities include the following: Low-latency, glitch-resilient audio streaming. Improved reliability (many audio functions have moved from kernel-mode to user-mode).

Implementing Audio Module Communication - Windows …

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/audio/implementing-audio-module-communication
    An Audio Module is a distinct piece of audio processing logic performing a relatively atomic function. An audio module may reside in the audio driver or in audio DSP. An example audio module would be DSP-based audio processing. Starting in Windows 10, release 1703, there are both APIs and DDIs to support communication from Universal Windows …

Kernel Streaming - Windows drivers | Microsoft Docs

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/stream/kernel-streaming
    These class drivers are implemented as export drivers (kernel-mode DLLs) in the system files portcls.sys, stream.sys, and ks.sys. In Windows XP and later, ks.sys is referred to as AVStream. In Windows XP SP2 and later, Microsoft provides the USB Video Class driver.

Kernel Streaming | HFA - The Independent Source for Audio ...

    https://www.hifi-advice.com/blog/audiophile-insights/digital-insights/kernel-streaming/
    There are four methods in Windows XP for outputting audio via an audio device: DirectSound, WaveOut, ASIO/WDM, and kernel streaming. (update July 2016: Windows 7 also offers WASAPI, which is the best option). DirectSound and WaveOut go through kmixer. ASIO and kernel streaming don’t. If you like accuracy, you better stick to ASIO or Kernel streaming as only …

Windows Kernel-Mode Plug and Play Manager - Windows ...

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/kernel/windows-kernel-mode-plug-and-play-manager
    The PnP manager is actually a subsystem of the I/O manager. For more information about the I/O manager, see Windows Kernel-Mode I/O Manager. For lists of PnP routines, see Plug and Play Routines. Note that there are no routines that provide a direct interface to the PnP manager; that is, there are no "Pp" routines.

A Brief History of Windows Audio APIs - ShaneKirk.com

    http://shanekirk.com/2015/10/a-brief-history-of-windows-audio-apis/
    With WDM, both MME and DirectSound audio now passed through something call the Kernel Audio Mixer (usually referred to as the KMixer). KMixer was a kernel mode component responsible for mixing all of the system audio together. KMixer introduced latency. A lot of it. 30 milliseconds, in fact. And sometimes more.

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