[Flac-dev] 2/0, 2/2 3/0, 3/2, 5.1, wxyz

[Josh Coalson]

--- smoerk <smoerk at gmx.de> wrote:
> i didn't find anything about tagging flac files as surround files. i 
> think there should some possibility to tell the player how to play a 
> multi-channel file (how to map the different channels to the speakers
> or if there some decode is needed, like for ambisonic files).

it wouldn't be in the tags, it would be a specific channel
assignment in the frame header:

http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html#frame_header

there are currently none defined for >2 channels but there could
be.

Josh


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