[vorbis-dev] Multichannel Encoding

[Michael Smith]

At 08:12 PM 1/23/01 -0000, you wrote:
>I'm a mathematician and programmer working on experimental surround sound 
>techniques. Some of the ideas I'm working on require dozens of channels. 
>These channels are often highly correlated and are very well suited to 
>compression.
>
>I'm new to Vorbis. Does it attempt to address such issues?

Vorbis supports up to 255 channels per stream. Right now, it treats them
seperately, so the fact that they're highly correlated doesn't help. That's
one of the big features remaining for 1.0 (though how it'll extend to more
than 2 channels I'm not sure).

Michael

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