Re: [Sursound] BBC Radio Three Surround Streaming Trial (15. to 31. March)

2014-03-19 Thread John Leonard
Tonight's effort a bit of a dog's breakfast with glitches, drop-outs and confusion over the recorded link pieces in the interval. However, when it was working, it was pretty damned impressive. They seem to have tweaked the surrounds a bit, so no need to up the gain any more. Together with some r

Re: [Sursound] Sursound Digest, Vol 68, Issue 17

2014-03-19 Thread Iain Mott
Em Wed, 2014-03-19 às 20:21 +, Fons Adriaensen escreveu: > Another approach would be to sent W only (at reference level) > to the decoder, and then measure each individual speaker (by > soloing it, ambdec provides the function) and adjusting for > reference SPL - 10 * log(number_of speakers). T

Re: [Sursound] Sursound Digest, Vol 68, Issue 17

2014-03-19 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 07:50:43PM +, Dave Hunt wrote: > The panning approach won't work, as all speakers would be excited at > various different levels. Anything to substantiate that claim ? Practice ? Theory ? FYI, I have used this method a number of times, with excellent results. I've al

Re: [Sursound] Sursound Digest, Vol 68, Issue 17

2014-03-19 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 07:50:43PM +, Dave Hunt wrote: > Surely the best approach is to feed the noise signal (post decoder) > into each speaker channel in turn and adjust the amplification on > each channel until the level measured at the centre listening point > is the same for each speaker.

Re: [Sursound] Sursound Digest, Vol 68, Issue 17

2014-03-19 Thread Dave Hunt
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Re: [Sursound] Construction of purpose built ambisonic studio (Fons Adriaensen)

2014-03-19 Thread Steve Boardman
f exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. > It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris > and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow) > > -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20140319/987d6c10/attachment.html> ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound

Re: [Sursound] Sony's VR announcement

2014-03-19 Thread Stefan Schreiber
Christian Heinrichs wrote: For those that haven't been following it: there's been a lot of mention of 3D audio in Sony's announcement of their VR devkit just now. Looks like we'll be hearing a lot more of the term "3D Audio" in mainstream media from now on! http://live.theverge.com/live-son

Re: [Sursound] Sursound Digest, Vol 68, Issue 10

2014-03-19 Thread Steve Boardman
he recent advances in optimizing for irregular layouts by zotter > et al and heller et al, there is no longer a compelling reason to go for > platonic solids, except that they are kind of pretty :) > layouts based on a horizontal ring have the big advantage of better > horizontal-on

Re: [Sursound] BBC Radio Three Surround Streaming Trial (15. to 31. March)

2014-03-19 Thread David Pickett
At 17:47 19-03-14, Aaron Heller wrote: >I downloaded the MPD file on the FAQ page with > wget http://rdmedia.bbc.co.uk/dash/ondemand/channel_test/1/5.mpd It asked me what you wanted to do with it automatically! Just selected "download". >If I'm reading it correctly, the channel announcement

Re: [Sursound] Sony's VR announcement

2014-03-19 Thread Richard G Elen
I'm watching these developments with interest due to my activities in virtual worlds... Indeed, as we're talking about VR headsets here, where head-tracking is vital for the visual operation, I wouldn't worry about that being available for audio - it's already there and I don't see how you cou

Re: [Sursound] Construction of purpose built ambisonic studio. (Richard Furse)

2014-03-19 Thread Steve Boardman
When working with the projector on, the final essential components are a > wireless keyboard and mouse - and sometimes a PC X-Box controller ;-) > > Best wishes, > > --Richard -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20140319/82a27242/attachment.html> ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound

Re: [Sursound] BBC Radio Three Surround Streaming Trial (15. to 31. March)

2014-03-19 Thread Aaron Heller
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Re: [Sursound] Periphonic Irregular HO Ambisonics Decoder

2014-03-19 Thread /dav/random
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Re: [Sursound] BBC Radio Three Surround Streaming Trial (15. to 31. March)

2014-03-19 Thread Kees de Visser
On 19 Mar 2014, at 07:33, David Pickett wrote: > I suspect that most of the problems last night were at the originating end, > though there were cases when there were beats missing as the stream caught > up, which seemed more likely to be delays in the Internet. from the BBC blog: > 21. Rupert B