https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/AudioDestinationNode
Destination channel numbers can be as many as soundcard outputs ! So yes there is nothing stopping us from having multichannel outputs from a web audio implemented in JavaScript.. Bosse On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 09:58 Bo-Erik Sandholm <[email protected] wrote: > > As far as I understand there is nothing stopping us to access a > multichannel soundcard from the browser. > > To Marc, there is nothing else than the html competence and time that > stops us from using Omnitone or JSAmbisonics to produce websites with > Ambisonic content. > > I think with the www.ohti.xyz, this is produced with faint memories of a > html course in the end of the eighties and googling shows this. > > The thing that I have not been able to figure out is how to create a > interface for creating playlist or a GUI for a directory at files for click > and play. > > The VLC supports ambix coded soundfield, there is somwhere a multimedia > version in the works that will make it possible to use headtracking > according to the VLC main developer. > > Bosse > > > > >> - - >> >> > Decoding in the browser would be for casual use, mostly for binaural >> > listening, but decoding to speaker arrays would be nice, for exemple >> > with 5.1 system (as a 4.1 system with a square or rectangular setup). >> >> - - - >> >> Why would you not be able to decode ambisonics to a speaker array (for >> example 4.0 or 5.1), < from a browser >? >> >> >> Maybe this is no common option yet today, but why not in the future? >> >> If a browser is able to support 5.1 (stereophonic surround), decoding >> of ambisonics to some 5.1 system should actually be no problem. (via >> WebAudio) >> >> The usual way to support decoding of ambisonics (only) to binaural is >> because the normal application case of ambisonics is nowadays to be >> some “ audio track” for VR or 360° video. >> >> Right?! >> >> I don’t think this is just an abstract discussion, by the way. Maybe >> such decoding functions could added to Omnitone, for example? >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20190113/31a26327/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
