[vorbis] Multichannel files

[Myles Buckley]

Hello Andreas,

There was a few threads some months ago on multi-channel oggs and various
surround formats.  I suggest you search the mailing list archives for the
word 'ambisonics'  You should find relevant threads in that era.

I have some issues with current surround sound recordings as they lack phase
and position information in the sound matrix.  If you are serious about
proper surround recordings It will take some effort on the part of the
vorbis project and current players to keep and reproduce proper
phase/location data.

Myles

-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Karlsson [mailto:a.karlsson at bredband.net]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 13:58
To: vorbis at xiph.org
Subject: [vorbis] Multichannel files

Hi,

As I´ve understood things, the Ogg Vorbis format supports more that two 
channels (stereo). Is there any tools to encode x sourcefiles into one .ogg 
file?
I am a musican and am thrilled with the ide of makeing music in surround 
(or in more than stereo).
This leads to my next question: is there (developing) any decoders for 
multichannel oggs to, let us say, 4.1 or 5.1 surround? Wouldn´t it be nice 
to have surround support in a winamp/xmms-plugin?
I guess the common way for decoders is to merage all channels into stereo 
(right or left, perhaps both)?

Regards,
Andreas Karlsson
http://www.ft2.net

--- >8 ----
List archives:  http://www.xiph.org/archives/
Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/
To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request at xiph.org'
containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body.  No subject is needed.
Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.

--- >8 ----
List archives:  http://www.xiph.org/archives/
Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/
To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request at xiph.org'
containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body.  No subject is needed.
Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.