Re: [Sursound] octofile release

2018-07-29 Thread Aaron Heller
olby 5.1 or 7.1. There's an inertia because "standards" were designed as vendor lock-ins. >> >>> Compromise proposal: >>> >>> >>> >>> 4. So let’s maybe use .wav or .caf for the “mastering format”. Microsoft and Apple already allow more than 8 chan

Re: [Sursound] octofile release

2018-07-29 Thread Stefan Schreiber
Short comments (to text below): (1) The ambisonics input channels can’t be coded in some 7.1 (channel coupling, LFE) style, agreed. With opus you seem to need channel mapping #255, not #1 - the latter  corresponds to (classical) 2D surround sound layouts. (2) I believe that  FB is

Re: [Sursound] octofile release

2018-07-29 Thread Stefan Schreiber
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Re: [Sursound] octofile release

2018-07-29 Thread Marc Lavallée
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Re: [Sursound] octofile release

2018-07-29 Thread Stefan Schreiber
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Re: [Sursound] octofile release

2018-07-29 Thread Marc Lavallée
Excerpt from https://xiph.org/flac/faq.html#general__channels : "FLAC supports from 1 to 8 channels per stream. Channels are only grouped in FLAC to take advantage of interchannel correlation and to define common channel assignments (like stereo L/R, 5.1 surround, et cetera). When encoding a

Re: [Sursound] octofile release

2018-07-29 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 01:46:04PM -0400, Marc Lavallée wrote: > Easy to compile, support for FLAC, GPL3 license... FLAC is supported for input only. The output is 9 channels, and FLAC can't handle that. Never understood why they put in that silly limit... Ciao, -- FA

Re: [Sursound] octofile release

2018-07-29 Thread Marc Lavallée
Easy to compile, support for FLAC, GPL3 license... Thanks! Marc Le 2018-07-29 à 11:02 AM, Fons Adriaensen a écrit : Hello all, Source code for octofile version 0.3.0 (linux) is now available at Octofile is the A to B

[Sursound] octofile release

2018-07-29 Thread Fons Adriaensen
Hello all, Source code for octofile version 0.3.0 (linux) is now available at Octofile is the A to B format converter for Core Sound's Octomic. A-format input can be 1,2,4 or 8 audio file(s) with resp. 8,4,2 or 1 channel(s)