Re: [Sursound] octofile release

2018-08-02 Thread Martin Leese
Aaron Heller wrote: > There's a IETF proposal from folks at Google for "Ambisonics in an Ogg Opus > Container", based on > > Nachbar, et al., Ambix - A Suggested Ambisonics Format. 3rd International > Symposium on Ambisonics and Spherical Acoustics, Lexington, KY (2011) > > and the idea of a

Re: [Sursound] octofile release

2018-07-30 Thread Martin Leese
Marc Lavall?e wrote: ... > I don't know if the fine Xiph developers can "just" extend the > definitions of FLAC, if a special Ambisonics mode would be required, and > to what extent the 8-channel limit (as a limit) is a political issue. Extending a FLAC stream beyond eight channels is not

Re: [Sursound] octofile release

2018-07-29 Thread Aaron Heller
There's a IETF proposal from folks at Google for "Ambisonics in an Ogg Opus Container", based on Nachbar, et al., Ambix - A Suggested Ambisonics Format. 3rd International Symposium on Ambisonics and Spherical Acoustics, Lexington, KY (2011) and the idea of a default stereo decode from Etienne

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
Citando Marc Lavallée : Le 2018-07-29 à 03:08 PM, Stefan Schreiber a écrit : Citando 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

Re: [Sursound] octofile release

2018-07-29 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 2018-07-29 à 03:08 PM, Stefan Schreiber a écrit : Citando 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

Re: [Sursound] octofile release

2018-07-29 Thread Stefan Schreiber
Citando 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

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)