Re: [Sursound] A proposal for an Ambisonics based 3D audio codec, MPEG/ITU style...

2013-01-21 Thread Michael Chapman
> ... >> Don't write about supposed patent trolls if your sources are "Forbes" >> etc. (This is business press, they certainly don't have any real clue >> about patents.) > > The article was written by the CEO of Article > One Partners; she knows what she is talking > about. > If self-(corporate)-

Re: [Sursound] A proposal for an Ambisonics based 3D audio codec, MPEG/ITU style...

2013-01-21 Thread Stefan Schreiber
Ok, the citings and links weren't presented in the desired form. I guess this is because there was no clear ISO standard for HTML citings...(In fact, maybe this is because I was copying HTML to plain text format, forced by the sursound list owners to do so. :-) ) Anyway, I am completely

Re: [Sursound] A proposal for an Ambisonics based 3D audio codec, MPEG/ITU style...

2013-01-21 Thread Stefan Schreiber
Marc Lavallée wrote: Remember that MPEG is creating proprietary, industrial and commercial standards using lots of patents. How Ambisonics can co-exist? -- Marc The MPEG is part of the International Standard Organisation (ISO), in fact it was founded by both ISO and IEC. http://en.wiki

Re: [Sursound] an exploratory mail

2013-01-21 Thread Stefan Schreiber
Hi Gabriel, I would like to give some short commentaries inside your text, open for further discussion... Gabriel Wolf wrote: Dear Sursounders, the initial post of "A proposal for an Ambisonics based 3D audio codec ..." by Stefan Schreiber put all the things together so clearly and nicely

Re: [Sursound] A proposal for an Ambisonics based 3D audio codec, MPEG/ITU style...

2013-01-21 Thread Marc Lavallée
Stefan Schreiber a écrit : > >As for Java, it is now a free software and its > >implementation for Android (Dalvik), is free too. > > > Really?! Java is not free, unless you are referring (only) to the > programming language. (Libraries? VM?) Hi Stephan. The Java language and its specificati

Re: [Sursound] an exploratory mail

2013-01-21 Thread Gabriel Wolf
Actually by me, back in 2000, along with the CDP Toolkit which enabled AMB files to be created: http://people.bath.ac.uk/masrwd/bformat.html The Ambisonic community sort of discovered it a while later. Oh I see. That was before I joined Sursound. Ambisonic's "problem" was that people were hap

Re: [Sursound] A proposal for an Ambisonics based 3D audio codec, MPEG/ITU style...

2013-01-21 Thread Martin Leese
Stefan Schreiber wrote: ... > Don't write about supposed patent trolls if your sources are "Forbes" > etc. (This is business press, they certainly don't have any real clue > about patents.) The article was written by the CEO of Article One Partners; she knows what she is talking about. ... >>..."

Re: [Sursound] Maximum number of output channels possible in one single pc today ?

2013-01-21 Thread Eric Benjamin
> what was the first commercial multichannel sound card I don't know what the first was, but in 2000 I used an Echo Layla 24 to put together an 8-channel system with an old 100 MHz Pentium PC (Barely enough CPU power. I had to trim the OS to get it to work in real time). Before the Layla24 th

Re: [Sursound] Maximum number of output channels possible in one single pc today ?

2013-01-21 Thread Charlie Richmond
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Re: [Sursound] Maximum number of output channels possible in one single pc today ?

2013-01-21 Thread Augustine Leudar
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Re: [Sursound] Maximum number of output channels possible in one single pc today ?

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Re: [Sursound] an exploratory mail

2013-01-21 Thread Richard Dobson
On 21/01/2013 17:22, Gabriel Wolf wrote: Dear Sursounders, ... We did standardisation before. AMB has been declared by Martin Leese seven years ago (if I remember correctly). It has been worked out. Actually by me, back in 2000, along with the CDP Toolkit which enabled AMB files to be crea

[Sursound] Maximum number of output channels possible in one single pc today ?

2013-01-21 Thread Miguel Negrao
Hi Does anyone know the answer to this question ? With 3 RME HDSPe MADI FX it appears to be possible to have 576 channels of output. Would the pci-e bus be able that amount of data ? Has anyone ever built such a system ? I’m asking because I wanted to know what was the maximum theoretical n

[Sursound] an exploratory mail

2013-01-21 Thread Gabriel Wolf
Dear Sursounders, the initial post of "A proposal for an Ambisonics based 3D audio codec ..." by Stefan Schreiber put all the things together so clearly and nicely. MPEG-H 3D Audio might be the beginning of commercial breakthrough in 3D audio. Ambisonics has been there since the 70's. We all

Re: [Sursound] A proposal for an Ambisonics based 3D audio codec, MPEG/ITU style...

2013-01-21 Thread Stefan Schreiber
Marc Lavallée wrote: Stefan Schreiber a écrit : The Android OS is "open", although not entirely: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system%29#Licensing Very closely controlled by Google, even if being based on Linux and some (propietary) hack of Java? Yes, de

Re: [Sursound] A proposal for an Ambisonics based 3D audio codec, MPEG/ITU style...

2013-01-21 Thread Marc Lavallée
Stefan Schreiber a écrit : > >The Android OS is "open", although not entirely: > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system%29#Licensing > > > > Very closely controlled by Google, even if being based on Linux and > some (propietary) hack of Java? Yes, developed and controlled b