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 http://mchapman.com/amb/wavex in flac. Even if flack encoding is not neccessary but can save storage space. http://dream.cs.bath.ac.uk/researchdev/wave-ex/bformat.html Player http://www.alsaplayer.org/features.php supports FLAC ambisonic player http://offog.org/code/potamus.html or this simple one that i know works well via jack. Ambisonic decoder http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/index.html Operation system http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewCat=General - Barry Kauler has a A-10 Puppy Linux distribution and development environment, that seems nice - Puppy linux version Not shure jack is included, but jack is available for puppylinux Ubuntu is also available for A-10 Below 100 USD computers Computer with 4 Core processor and 8 channel sound card: http://www.aliexpress.com/product-fm/563764893-New-released-Android4-0-IPTV-google-tv-smart-android-box-allwinner-A10-Model-MK802-Notice-just-wholesalers.html Or http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/hacking_the_mele_a1000/ Mele 2000 from dealextreme cost 6 usd more but still costs below 100USD and has 4 GB flash memory instead. With this platform it is is possible to have up to 8 speaker channels from the computer via hdmi, I have not at the moment a link to a 8 channel power amplifier to use for 2 rings of 4 speakers, But a horisontal 6 speaker array or other commeon speaker configurations can easily be powered via hometheater surround amplifiers. OR Maybe to offer a "novelity" integrate the ambdec decoder and a multichannel wave player and port it to the google TV android environmnet with a number of "suitable" decoding matrixes and publish it together with a pointer to a bit of ambisonic material. Have a nice summer Bo-Erik _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
