Mpxplay - Sound Card Support

Sound Card Support

Mpxplay supports sound cards using one of two methods: natively or through emulation. Native support is achieved by having drivers in Mpxplay that are capable of writing to the sound card directly. When native support is used more of the sound cards features are available such as the ability to use 32-bit sound.

Cards that are currently supported for native access are:

  • Sound Blaster Live and Live 24
  • Sound Blaster Audigy 1, 2, 4, and LS
  • SB Ensoniq (SB PCI 16/64/128)
  • CMI 8338 and 8738
  • Intel ICH
  • Intel HDA
  • VIA 686,8233, and 8235

Cards supported through emulation typically need a TSR driver wrapper, a program that translates the codes for one type of sound card to the one actually in the machine. This can be used to gain the ability to use a sound card that typically is not well supported by the majority of DOS applications. As DOS needs drivers to be programmed into each application in which they are used, it can be useful to run a sound card that is nearly universally supported by most applications with sound support: SoundBlaster 16.

Mpxplay can use this technique to support the following sound cards:

  • Sound Blaster 16
  • ESS
  • WSS
  • GUS
  • Sound Blaster Pro

The Win32 version of Mpxplay is a multi-threaded console application with the following sound outputs:

  • DirectSound (Directx v3 or higher)
  • Wave Mapper (all Win versions)

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