On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Steve Harris wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 04:46:33PM +0300, Juhana Sadeharju wrote: > > In extreme, people would have to design a new free surround format > > and offer the decoder to amplifier manufacturers. > What about ambisonics? I think the decoder hardware is expensive but > aren't there some LADSPA plugins that can encode it? It's technologically > superior to the 5.1 and 6.1 formats anyway IMHO. Though I asuming that the > point is to produce something that can be played back on generic domestic > equipment.
The ogg vorbis project is looking into using ambisonics for unencumbered multichannel encoding. http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis-dev/200101/0346.html http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis-dev/200106/0111.html http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis-dev/200007/0030.html -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-]
