Citando Marc Lavallée <m...@hacklava.net>:

Le 2019-01-12 à 3:03 p.m., David Pickett a écrit :

At 20:33 12-01-19, Marc wrote:

What seems to be still missing (but I could be wrong), is a "standard" standalone ambisonics audio player. If such a player could play and decode ambisonics audio streams (hosted on a audio streaming web site), then it'd be an excellent start. Something similar to what audio streaming is for stereo, and that we take for granted. What went wrong with surround sound in general is still a mystery to me... But there's hope.

If I understand you correctly, the idea is to stream WXY (to keep it simple) and have this decoded in the browser, rather than 4.0 directly. This seems to me to be akin to using M&S files rather than L&R. It involves a further layer of complication at the client end, and I am not sure of the advantage, other than it reduces data bandwith by 25%; but bandwidth is surely not a problem these days.



 But I am always ready to be corrected!

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Decoding in the browser would be for casual use, mostly for binaural listening, but decoding to speaker arrays would be nice, for exemple with 5.1 system (as a 4.1 system with a square or rectangular setup).

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Why would you not be able to decode ambisonics to a speaker array (for example 4.0 or 5.1), <  from a browser >?


Maybe this is no common option yet today, but why not in the future?

If a browser is able to support 5.1 (stereophonic surround), decoding of ambisonics to some 5.1 system should actually be no problem. (via WebAudio)

The usual way to support decoding of ambisonics (only) to binaural is because the normal application case of ambisonics is nowadays to be some “ audio track” for VR or 360° video.

Right?!

I don’t think this is just an abstract discussion, by the way. Maybe such decoding functions could added to Omnitone, for example? 

There are strong indications that support for surround sound is getting stronger, finally. We might be able to help a bit, via feature request and own solutions.

Best regards

Stefan
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