Lovely display (they really, really ought to make that int a separate
product!) but according to the latest copy of the Harpex player
manual, the output modes are
Binaural:
Not available in the player.
Stereo:
Use this for playback over stereo loudspeakers.
Shotgun:
Use this for playback over a 3D loudspeaker array.
Surround:
Use this for playback over a horizontal loudspeaker rig.
Ambisonics:
Not available in the player.
so it doesn't do UHJ (or binaural) which rules it out for the present puposes.
I also have to admit that, speaking personally, I find the Harpex
algorithm very material dependant and that it can produce listening
fatigue at least as bad as some of the 1970's "logic" decoders, though
in other cases it works well - so I would like to see a Harpex mode
in/out switch.
Dve
On 28 June 2012 06:19, Aaron Heller <hel...@ai.sri.com> wrote:
> 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
>>>
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>> 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
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