The Harpex player works well and is a free download. Runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
http://harpex.net/download.html Aaron (hel...@ai.sri.com) Menlo Park, CA US On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Dave Malham <dave.mal...@york.ac.uk> wrote: > 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sursound mailing list >> Sursound@music.vt.edu >> https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound > > > > -- > > These are my own views and may or may not be shared by my employer > > Dave Malham > Music Research Centre > Department of Music > The University of York > Heslington > York YO10 5DD > UK > Phone 01904 322448 > Fax 01904 322450 > 'Ambisonics - Component Imaging for Audio' > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
