so I guess your media player would have to tell the .amb file how many speakers you were using and it would decode the 'amb file for the correct order ?
On 2 October 2013 15:55, Richard Dobson <richarddob...@blueyonder.co.uk>wrote: > Sort of: > > the purpose of ambisonic encoding is to enable any given stream or file to > be decoded into different speaker arrays; > > the purpose of the AMB format is to provide a standardised container > (complete with file extension :-)) for B-Format streams (using FuMa > encoding), and to disambiguate those files from other multi-channel PCM > soundfiles. AMB supports up to full 3rd order (16 channels). > > Richard Dobson > > > On 02/10/2013 14:36, Augustine Leudar wrote: > >> Just to clarify - is the purpose of the .amb format so you can play the >> same .amb file ambisonically on different speaker arrays/numbers of >> speakers - it 1st order/ 2nd orger/ 3rd order etc ? >> >> >> > ______________________________**_________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/**mailman/listinfo/sursound<https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound> > -- 07580951119 augustine.leudar.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20131002/fc75d764/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
