[vorbis] RC2 better than RC3 ???

[volsung at asu.edu]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, MARK JAMES HETHERINGTON wrote:

> I sort of assumed that there would have to be some sort of a "tag" for 
> the channels, and that a naming standard would be needed. But I guess 
> there are other options like giving a relative positioning (a unit 
> vector), and specifying frequency range(s). How does the decoder 
> recognise right and left channels now? I guess a combination of those 
> would be possible too. I'll see what I can find out about other formats.

The decoder only knows channels by number.  In mono files, there is only one
channel, so no issue.  In stereo files, the first channel is the left channel,
and the second channel is the right channel.  In all cases, it is up to the
application to interpret what each channel means.


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Stan Seibert

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