[vorbis] AC-3 Decoding

Marco Al marco at simplex.nl
Wed Aug 8 10:05:52 PDT 2001



On Wednesday 08 August 2001 18:19, you wrote:

> This was part of the design with ambisonics.  4 channels != 4 speakers.

I never said so, but information gets lost during encoding... and no matter 
how fancy you reconstruct it its not coming back.

> > Ambisonics could simply be supported by 4
> > channel support and seperate post processing, the only thing vorbis would
> > really need in this respect is a flag in the header to indicate its an
>
> Why would this flag be of needed?

So a player can recognise it and output it appropriately, just because a file 
has 4 channels doesnt make it ambisonic.

Marco

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