Re: [Sursound] Patent application: Data structure for HOA

2012-10-27 Thread etienne deleflie
I suspect that - any file format that has any level of sophistication (read: complexity) will likely not get take-up (maybe even UA is too complex. Straight old B-format is fine). Its not what features are included that counts that's the engineer's mistake. - any file format which can't relati

Re: [Sursound] Patent application: Data structure for HOA

2012-10-27 Thread etienne deleflie
Hi Richard, > Now the attention in previous posts was very much on the phrase "most > sophisticated format", which was guaranteed to wind people up; whereas the > key word is really "available". The UA format is not really available to > ~composers~ to use. The description is very much one for pr

Re: [Sursound] Patent application: Data structure for HOA

2012-10-27 Thread Ronald C.F. Antony
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Re: [Sursound] Patent application: Data structure for HOA

2012-10-27 Thread Richard Lee
As I've said ad nauseum, the guy who first integrates an Ambi decoder into VLC, getting around the evil Windoz mixer etc. gets to choose the data structure for next important Ambi format. This will be a lossy compressed format probably based on the public domain Vorbis. Ambisonia was the 1st m

Re: [Sursound] Patent application: Data structure for HOA

2012-10-27 Thread Richard Dobson
I received a message back from Jan-Mark Batke, to the effect they will pass my comments on to the patent authorities. It is classified at this stage as a "disclosure". The four inventors are members of Technicolor, and the new system is briefly featured here: http://community.calrec.com/?p=82