waveOutWrite MMSYSERR_INVALHANDLE

[Su-Lin]

Hi there,

I'm using the waveOut* functions to play out some audio using double
buffering and I'm using a callback event to tell me when each buffer
is done.

However, I am unable to call waveOutWrite as I get and
MMSYSERR_INVALHANDLE error each time. Any idea what the problem could
be?

Here's the relevant code:

/* declarations */
WAVEHDR wh1, wh2;
HWAVEOUT hwaveout;
WAVEFORMATEX wfx;

eventHandle = CreateEvent(NULL, FALSE, FALSE, NULL);

if (eventHandle == NULL)
{
mexErrMsgTxt("failed to create event");
}

if (eventHandle == NULL)
{
mexErrMsgTxt("failed to create event");
}

/* initialise the wave player */

/* I fill in the WAVEFORMATEX (wfx) structure here */

errors = waveOutOpen ( &hwaveout,
WAVE_MAPPER,
&wfx,
(unsigned long) &eventHandle,
0,
CALLBACK_EVENT | WAVE_ALLOWSYNC );

if (errors != MMSYSERR_NOERROR)
{
mxFree (&wh1);
mxFree (&wh2);

switch (errors)
{
case MMSYSERR_ALLOCATED: mexWarnMsgTxt("MMSYSERR_ALLOCATED");
break;
case MMSYSERR_BADDEVICEID: mexWarnMsgTxt("MMSYSERR_BADDEVICEID");
break;
case MMSYSERR_NODRIVER: mexWarnMsgTxt("MMSYSERR_NODRIVER");
break;
case MMSYSERR_NOMEM: mexWarnMsgTxt("MMSYSERR_NOMEM"); break;
case WAVERR_BADFORMAT: mexWarnMsgTxt("WAVERR_BADFORMAT");
break;
case WAVERR_SYNC: mexWarnMsgTxt("WAVERR_SYNC"); break;
default: mexWarnMsgTxt("default with waveoutopen"); break;
}

CloseHandle(eventHandle);

mexErrMsgTxt("error in opening wave device");

return 1;
}

and then the call to waveOutWrite:

errors = waveOutWrite (hwaveout, &wh1,
sizeof(WAVEHDR));
if (errors != 0)
{
switch (errors)
{
case MMSYSERR_INVALHANDLE:
mexErrMsgTxt("MMSYSERR_INVALHANDLE");
case MMSYSERR_NODRIVER:
mexErrMsgTxt("MMSYSERR_NODRIVER");
case MMSYSERR_NOMEM:
mexErrMsgTxt("MMSYSERR_NOMEM");
case WAVERR_UNPREPARED:
mexErrMsgTxt("WAVERR_UNPREPARED");
default: mexErrMsgTxt("default error with
waveOutWrite");
}

mexErrMsgTxt("error in using waveoutwrite");
}

and I receive the MMSYSERR_INVALHANDLE error.

It worked when I used a callback thread but I've been forced to change
from that to a callback event.

Thanks in advance!

Su-Lin Lee
suli...@nospam.lycos.co.uk
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