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Make use of WASAPI Spatial Audio as alternative for Surround Sound output on Windows
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Description
Windows Audio Subsystem has support for passing through multi-channel audio to an external application that handles rendering an emulation of that muti-channel stream playing through a home theater system binaurally. These applications (Windows Sonic, DTS Headphone:X, and Dolby Atmos for headphones) can be supported without having to provide true object-based surround sound. There is a configuration that allows Windows to passthrough a surround sound stream via the WASAPI Spatial Audio API to these applications (Assuming the end user owns a icense to use those applications) and have them hande spatializing the sound. I think it'd be a great idea for a future update to take advantage of this. Further documentation can be found here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/spatialaudioclient/
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/coreaudio/spatial-sound
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the linked Microsoft WASAPI Spatial Audio and spatial sound documentation, then locate the repository's Windows audio output path; no file or test is named in the issue. Done would mean adding a documented alternative that passes multichannel output through WASAPI Spatial Audio for compatible spatialization applications.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- audio-video-rtc, desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100