Hi there,
Whilst MPlayer is an excellent piece of kit, it's not exactly
suited to people with little or no computer literacy, so someone on a
Windoze machine and an audio file to play can't just be told to instal
MPlayer - for them,
mplayer -ao jack -channels 7 myvideo.avi
is slightly less intelligible than the average inscription in a
Pharaoh's tomb :-)
Why was I asking about this? After all, I just run up Bidule (or
Reaper, or Max/MSP) to do the job. Well, I was prompted to ask because
a mate had just been packaging up some ST450 recordings as UHJ for
distribution to the people he'd recorded and wondered if there was a
way he could point them at whereby they could (easily) play them
properly (ie decoded) via the Quicktime player. I naturally thought of
something more open....of course, Bruce did some stuff for the Windows
Media Player, but it's not the same. Maybe it's a retirement
project...just 13 weeks, 1 day to go now :-)
Dave
On 27 June 2012 15:55, Michael Chapman <s...@mchapman.com> wrote:
>> On 06/27/2012 12:22 PM, Dave Malham wrote:
>>> Hi Folks,
>>> I remember a few years ago there was talk of getting Ambisonic
>>> playback going in VLC. Did that ever get anywhere? Or, indeed, Ambisonic
>>> playback for any cross-platform player?
>>
>> I once used mplayer to play back a video with a 3rd order horizontal
>> ambisonics sound track:
>>
>> mplayer -ao jack -channels 7 myvideo.avi
>>
>> The mplayer output was routed to ambdec for decoding.
>>
>
> I've used mplayer a lot, with great success. Obviously it
> is then your problem to decode B-format.
>
> I wasn't sure if the original question was seeking something
> that gave 'speaker' feeds or B-format.
> I rather presumed the former
> but ... then ...
> I rather doubted if (m)any on this list would trust any
> decoder packaged with a player, unless they knew an
> awful lot about it ;-)>
>
> Michael
>
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'Ambisonics - Component Imaging for Audio'
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