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<P><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi there - we've not discussed Ambisonics here for a while and I was wondering what the appetite is like to get stuff done</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">A fair bit of discussion has happened around the place (e.g. on the sursound list and beyond)</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">on</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> exactly what encoding (i.e. channel interpretations) should be used for Ambisonics, resulting in a number of</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">new</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">proposals, some of which have been or are being written up as relatively formal documents.</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> There are also existing standards (e.g. in WAVE-EX and Ogg-PCM) and some folk are getting together in June to discuss things further. I have views on this, but I don't really want to start a format war off here right now ;-)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">How would we actually go about sorting out some decent Ambisonic support for Vorbis? Are there folk here ready and enthusiastic to get into the development work? If so, do they have a clear idea of what might be needed? If not, I should be able to make myself available to help code this up, though I probably wouldn't have time to come up with a good fast solution to the core multichannel compression problem. However, I've looked at this before and can probably help.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thoughts appreciated,</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">--Richard</FONT></SPAN>
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