There are _lots_ of solutions like this - probably almost as many as there are people on this list
actually playing Ambisonic files! But, what a full VLC solution would bring would include;
Free (as in no cost to the end user) and free as in the liberty of open source
Cross Platform (Hermann's VSTHost, for instance, currently isn't)
Click'n'go functionality
To be fair, if the free version of the Quicktime Player supported plugins I might have a go at
writing something for that (probably easier than getting into the somewhat arcane depths of VLC) but
as far as I can tell only the pay-for Pro version does this. Like I said, a project for when I retire...
Dave
On 29/06/2012 07:25, Bo-Erik Sandholm wrote:
For windows ( and osX), should not this work?
A program to host VST plugins on windows
http://www.hermannseib.com/english/vsthost.htm
For Mac OS
http://wacvst.sourceforge.net/
A VST ambisonic decoder
http://vvaudio.com/products/vvmicvst
I have not tested, will try soon...
We should have a webpage/wiki where simple setups for playing amb can be
documented.
Even the arcane hieroglyph ways of doing it :-)
- Bosse
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Subject: [Sursound] Quicktime player ??
Hi,
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 06:05:49 +0100
From: Dave Malham <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Sursound] VLC Ambisonic player module
Hi there,
Whilst MPlayer is an excellent piece of kit, it's not exactly
suited to people with little or no computer literacy, so someone on a
Windoze machine and an audio file to play can't just be told to instal
MPlayer - for them,
mplayer -ao jack -channels 7 myvideo.avi
is slightly less intelligible than the average inscription in a
Pharaoh's tomb :-)
Why was I asking about this? After all, I just run up Bidule (or
Reaper, or Max/MSP) to do the job. Well, I was prompted to ask because
a mate had just been packaging up some ST450 recordings as UHJ for
distribution to the people he'd recorded and wondered if there was a
way he could point them at whereby they could (easily) play them
properly (ie decoded) via the Quicktime player. I naturally thought of
something more open....of course, Bruce did some stuff for the Windows
Media Player, but it's not the same.
I've never got round to trying this myself, but it seems as though Quicktime
player, along with a few other bits, might be persuaded to do the job. You can
get it to output multi-channel streams, which could be B-Format, or just use
UHJ as suggested. Use Soundflower to send the audio stream to another
application (e.g. Bidule, Max, Audio Mulch, Reaper), and find or build a
decoder that works in it. Bruce's plug-ins are a good bet for this.
Not exactly for the computer phobic, and you still need a fair amount of gear:
multi-channel audio interface etc. You might be able to use HDMI if your
computer can send LPCM audio streams via it to an AV receiver, and persuade
said receiver to handle it correctly.
Done once it should be possible to help others do it.
Ciao,
Dave Hunt
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