Re: [Sursound] online multichannel release

2011-11-25 Thread Richard
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Re: [Sursound] online multichannel release

2011-11-25 Thread Martin Leese
Michael Chapman s...@mchapman.com At 05:52 25/11/2011, Marinos Koutsomichalis wrote: Hello list, I was asked a 4-channel work for an online-release - I' m now trying to figure out what the best way to release it would be.. ... are there any other ideas/observations/advices ?? ... It would

Re: [Sursound] online multichannel release/side topic

2011-11-25 Thread Dave Hunt
Hi, Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 03:51:03 - From: John Lundsten john.lunds...@blueyonder.co.uk IMO if one wants to store so called linear PCM, use WAV. All other formats offer less only exist for (a) backward compatibility for which I have no problem or (b) to screw the customer, which I

Re: [Sursound] online multichannel release

2011-11-25 Thread Aaron Heller
Marinos Koutsomichalis mari...@agxivatein.com wrote: but still I' m not quite sure about the most important issue: which is the most 'common' file-format for such things ? In terms of installed base of players, AC3 and DTS are the most common formats for delivery of surround audio. VLC player

Re: [Sursound] online multichannel release

2011-11-25 Thread Dave Kaleita
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Re: [Sursound] online multichannel release/side topic

2011-11-25 Thread Bearcat M. Şandor
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Re: [Sursound] online multichannel release/side topic

2011-11-25 Thread Marinos Koutsomichalis
On 25 Nov 2011, at 23:15, Bearcat M. Şandor wrote: If i'm messing around (i'm not a serious audio professional) in Ardour isn't it a wave file first, afaic no. normally you select the kind of file you want your audio saved to. I use aiffs most of the times. And you can convert to lots of

Re: [Sursound] online multichannel release

2011-11-25 Thread Marinos Koutsomichalis
about the 4 channels: they are 4 channels of audio to be played back by a quad set-up.. In fact they are decoded from a b-format recording, but what I want to release is a quad version of the piece. as I mentioned I cannot consider wav/aiff and other lossless options because of their size.

Re: [Sursound] online multichannel release

2011-11-25 Thread John Lundsten
'This is stretching the actual facts a bit too much to be left unchallenged.' Ok. staying with the 'provocative' though true idea. I see your 'challenge', but see nothing in your post to contradict my suggestions. (or assertions if you like). Now if Mac OS is a belief system for you, IE

Re: [Sursound] online multichannel release

2011-11-25 Thread Marc Lavallée
I suggest to take a look at the Web Audio API from the W3C : https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/audio/raw-file/tip/webaudio/specification.html -- Marc Le Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:26:33 +0200 Marinos Koutsomichalis mari...@agxivatein.com a écrit: about the 4 channels: they are 4 channels of audio to be

Re: [Sursound] online multichannel release

2011-11-25 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2011-11-25, John Lundsten wrote: And yes for sure the RIFF Wav (with Wav extensible) has the cool chan mapping features CAF has, and very much as on a Mac, hardly anyone has bothered to implement it. Don't even go there. Really. E.g. Martin Leese spent real effort getting the OggPCM

Re: [Sursound] online multichannel release

2011-11-25 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2011-11-25, Marinos Koutsomichalis wrote: but still I' m not quite sure about the most important issue: which is the most 'common' file-format for such things ? In order the two most common ones are (I think): 1) Microsoft's AVI container (RIFF), with video as pure MPEG-2 and audio as

Re: [Sursound] online multichannel release

2011-11-25 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2011-11-26, John Lundsten wrote: Now for sure I'm not saying .wav is the only format for all time. Of course not. RIFF, CAF, and whatever, follow the same EAV/TLV formula that Commodore Amiga's IFF did: entity-attribute-value/type-length-value. The four byte/32-bit total schema for each