rephrase after coffee (not sure if that will help) So if this was to work in with a media player the media player would have to know how many speakers you have and where they are (is 8 in a cube or eight in the azimuth) - then the media player would have to decode to .amb file depending on your speaker array ?
On 2 October 2013 17:50, Jörn Nettingsmeier <netti...@stackingdwarves.net>wrote: > On 10/02/2013 06:21 PM, Augustine Leudar wrote: > >> 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 ? >> > > this is getting really confused. the purpose of an ambisonic file format > and extension is twofold: > > 1. and most importantly, to warn hapless users that it makes no sense to > take the four pcm streams it contains and pipe it to four speakers. that > is, to distinguish it clearly from files that contain actual loudspeaker > feeds, thereby avoiding the "i listened to it on my quad system and it > sounds crap" effect. > > 2. to allow the exchange of ambisonic audio in a meaningful way, > preserving channel order, relative phase, and relative level, and make it > obvious that the contained data is an ambisonic signal set. > > never ever will an ambisonic _file_format_ decode anything - it's a file > format, what do you expect? > > moreover, your use of the term "order" is wrong. you do not decode _for_ > an order, but you take an ambisonic signal set of a given order and decode > it to the appropriate speaker layout. the decoder may disregard higher > orders if the number of speakers does not allow for the necessary angular > resolution. > > best, > > > jörn > > > > > -- > Jörn Nettingsmeier > Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 > > Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) > Tonmeister VDT > > http://stackingdwarves.net > > ______________________________**_________________ > 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/20131002/3a36662d/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
