Audio Starting Microphone failed. result=25 (Unsupported file or audio format.)

Hey guys,

I was recently trying to use a new Mic-Array in my project to record and I'm receiving this error:

Starting Microphone failed. result=25 (Unsupported file or audio format.)

I used Audacity to make sure the mic array was working (Audio Host: MME, 1 channel Mono recording, 48kHz) and there was no problem..

I'm using a standard recording code: AudioClip recording = Microphone.Start(Microphone.devices[0], false, 60, micSampleRate);

Anybody have an idea?

 

Anyone?

 

Well, that happens sometimes with certain hardware when Unity's FMOD can't work with it
Since you seem to be needing a solution, I suppose it's acceptable if I plug my asset - link in the signature - ; download demo application for your platform from the asset store page and run one of the Input scenes to see if your device is recognized and can be opened to get its audio
Let me know if that helps !

 

Hey, thanks for the response! I downloaded the demo app and it recognized my device, but then when I tried to record it didn't work (State: Stopped ERR_RECORD An error ocurred trying to initalize the recording device)

I've added a screenshot of the error

 

Hey, thanks for testing and for trying it out !

Unfortunately, I don't have a good answer - my guess is that ReSpeaker drivers support only MME audio host and FMOD doesn't work with it - but don't quote me on that please )

- out of curiosity - do other audio hosts (DirectSound/WASAPI) work with it in Audacity ?
if not, you'll probably have to request support for them

You can verify on FMOD forums - qa.fmod.com - you can include Unity's Microphone class example and can mention you tried also with FMOD 1.10.11 with the same result

 

So in Audacity (1 mono-recording channel at 16kHz) it works with both MME and Direct Sound but not with WASAPI, does that indicate anything to you?

And yeah I've been contacting ReSpeaker support as well but they don't seem to understand, I'll tell them what you said though, thanks for all the feedback!

 

Yea, according to FMOD documentation (https://www.fmod.com/resources/documentation-api?version=2.0&page=platforms-windows.html) that should be in line with FMOD using WASAPI by default on Windows
^ that's for latest (2.0) version but it's probably never changed

- I'm not sure audio host type can be requested during initialization on windows, but I'll look into it and might provide an option to choose one, if yes [no guarantees )]

 

It seems that WASAPI is the only reasonable option for FMOD on windows ( the other two being asio and windows sonic - neither of which is relevant here ), so requesting its support from ReSpeaker is probably the only way on how to make it work in Unity @unity_YLJngzsjDCCl9g

 

OK, I've reached out to them about the problem with recording using WASAPI, now I just have to wait and sort it with them I guess.. Thanks again for all the replies, you were a huge help!