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October 1, 2010
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Any chance of Flash using WASAPI Exclusive Mode?

  • October 1, 2010
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My new Win7 computer is connected to my home audio system via a "bit perfect" optical output feeding a "professional audio" DAC. Players that can bypass Direct Sound and the Windows Mixer, and take Exclusive Mode control of the WASAPI channel, sound noticeably better. If I go to the trouble of capturing a Flash file and playing it locally through WASAPI, it sounds much better than it did while it was streaming through the Flash browser plug-in.

As more of my video entertainment moves to the web and Flash, I'd really like to be able to stream the audio directly through WASAPI. Is there any hope of Adobe or a third party enabling this? Or is it intentionally prohibited as a way to block bit-perfect capture of DRM limited media?

If DRM is the limiting factor, I'd suggest Adobe re-consider...  Pirates rarely care about small improvements in sound quality. Much Flash content can already be intercepted in bit-perfect form if one takes the time. It is mainly honest users operating within the intended streaming format who lose quality due to the browser plug-in routing audio through Windows Mixer.

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    Participant
    December 30, 2011

    I second this reqest. The archaic waveout API used currently has quality issues in Vista and later. It's crazy when you consider people pay for AV content in some cases and can't get the full quality their hardware is capable of.

    pwillener
    Legend
    December 31, 2011

    Post a feature request at https://bugbase.adobe.com/

    June 28, 2011

    Flash WASAPI would be too cool, we could get YouTube videos with AC3->SPDIF passthrough, which would totally kill html5 video.