Re: [linux-audio-dev] 2-channel stereo compatible ambisonics...

2007-03-15 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
Steve Harris wrote: On 14 Mar 2007, at 10:10, Joern Nettingsmeier wrote: i'm very new to ambisonics, so i may be wrong, but i think there are indeed stereo compatible first-order ambisonics streams. iirc, the format is called UHJ, and it matrixes WXY (lossily) into L/R (i.e. no height

Re: [linux-audio-dev] 2-channel stereo compatible ambisonics...

2007-03-15 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:00:46PM +0100, Joern Nettingsmeier wrote: unless i'm very much mistaken, UHJ-encoded material can be played back on any stereo rig without problems (some even report better stereo width and precision). Correct. the only drawback i heard about is that

[linux-audio-dev] 2-channel stereo compatible ambisonics...

2007-03-14 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
Steve Harris wrote: On 13 Mar 2007, at 09:15, Valent Turkovic wrote: Hi, is it possible to record multi channel speech audio and down sample it 2 stereo channels BUT with horizontal audio positioning of each audio channel ie. like dolby surround effect. Sure, but you might be disappointed

Re: [linux-audio-dev] 2-channel stereo compatible ambisonics...

2007-03-14 Thread Steve Harris
On 14 Mar 2007, at 10:10, Joern Nettingsmeier wrote: Steve Harris wrote: On 13 Mar 2007, at 09:15, Valent Turkovic wrote: Hi, is it possible to record multi channel speech audio and down sample it 2 stereo channels BUT with horizontal audio positioning of each audio channel ie. like