I finally got around to fixing the auto play on start-up problem. The reason it took so long was because I was trying to perfect the auto restart option:
Sometimes when an AC3 file is played or something that takes control of the sound card SPDIFkeepAlive gets stopped. The auto restart option restarts playback every 3 seconds. This means that shortly after AC3 playback stops SPDIFKeepAlive resumes automatically.
Unfortunately I’ve still not got it working properly, at least not for me, depending on your sound card / driver you might get better results. But be warned, on my system after a random amount of time (~1 hour) I get a terrible noise produced by SpdifKeepAlive and I have to exit, hence I don’t use this feature! I’ll try to fix it sometime. I think I’ll need to use threading and play 2 files that continuously overlap.
You can download the new version at the bottom of the SPDIFKeepAlive Post
This utility is a ‘lifesaver’ for us. While it no longer auto-starts for me, this thing makes sure I can hear audio- and video files without that annoying silent gap at the beginning.
Thanks!
Yes it was checked default but as soon as I started at DTS film on XBMC and stopped the film I saw “no digital data” sign on my logitech z5500’s lcd screen unfortunately. I dont know if you still work on this neat program but if you are it would be really appreciated. Many people I know have this problem. If we can fix this I know you will have many blessings 😀
Hey Barış, I’ll try to take a look when I get a chance.
Cheers,
Rhys
Great! Looking forward to it!
Any updates on this? It stops working when I play dts or ac3 movie.
Hey Barış, yeah it is a problem…have you tried the auto-restart option?
Cheers,
Rhys