Re: [Sursound] an exploratory mail

2013-01-22 Thread Richard Dobson
On 21/01/2013 23:51, Gabriel Wolf wrote: ... Ambisonic's problem was that people were happy, a posteriori, to agree that AMB was inadequate, but were unable to agree on what a proper HOA format should comprise, except inasmuch as plain old 3rd order 3D (the maximum AMB supports) was not good

Re: [Sursound] an exploratory mail

2013-01-22 Thread Stefan Schreiber
Gabriel Wolf wrote: In practice, those defining such a format need not only to define the file format itself, but also define and publish basic tools to create/encode and decode, to a suitably wide range of representative speaker arrangements; and of course to be able to confirm the whole thing

Re: [Sursound] A proposal for an Ambisonics based 3D audio codec, MPEG/ITU style...

2013-01-22 Thread Stefan Schreiber
Marc Lavallée wrote: Stefan, I was not stating that MPEG and ISO are evil. As a hobbyist, my question is: how Ambisonics might be included in a standard format made by the industry for the industry, that everybody would then have to use if there are no viable (and simple) alternative appart