[vorbis] Multichannel files

[Michael Smith]

At 07:57 PM 11/14/01 +0100, you wrote:
>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?

Oggenc will happily encode multi-channel wav files, though it doesn't merge
multiple files for you. 

However, two caveats:
 1) Decoders. I don't think anyone deals with this right, yet.
 2) Channel mappings - we haven't defined a way to do this, yet. So all you
    have is N independent channels, the file won't say that one is front-
    left, one front-right, one centre, etc. 

Michael

>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
>
>
>
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