Is there a review/list of decoders, i believe that some do it better than others
Richard
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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>
> Dave Malham
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