[Sursound] Suitable students project - Creation of ambisonic player ?

2012-05-25 Thread Bo-Erik Sandholm
I got the silly idea that if we have few a students with a lot of time at their hands... It could be possible to create a low cost ambisonic player using the following resources http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html To encode .amb into, i guess att the moment there is yet no support for

Re: [Sursound] Dolby Atmos

2012-05-25 Thread Andrew Levine
Hi Robert, On 25.04.2012, at 03:44, Robert Greene wrote: Moreover, if we had compressed one very brief thing(and unless you are meter reading you may not know which thing it is--it does not sound as loud as it actually is), we could have pulled the overall level up 6 dB. That one moment

Re: [Sursound] Dolby Atmos

2012-05-25 Thread Andrew Levine
Hi Fons, On 24.04.2012, at 22:09, Fons Adriaensen wrote: More than 96 dB dynamic range ? I've done some 20th and 21st century music recordings that had 60 dB or so of dynamic range, but that's about the widest I've ever seen. For any practical use you have to reduce that anyway. For

Re: [Sursound] Dolby Atmos

2012-05-25 Thread Andrew Levine
Hi Stefan, On 24.04.2012, at 20:54, Stefan Schreiber wrote: It is a pity that the so-called music industry (not that I belong to that…) didn't and doesn't care, (…caring a lot about surround) but in the end probably there has to happen something. Because the question might be asked why

[Sursound] multichannel audio over HDMI

2012-05-25 Thread Aaron Heller
Since Bo-Erik mentioned it, I've been wondering about multichannel computer audio over HDMI to a home theater amp. Does anyone know if ALSA on Linux or Core Audio on MacOS support this? In other words, if I'm running Linux on a motherboard with HDMI output, do the eight channels of audio show up