Re: [Sursound] Question about UHJ

2014-03-16 Thread Michael Chapman
Hi, Thanks everybody for your well-considered comments. The reason for going for a 2-channel format is compatibility with distribution media formats (CD) - and I suppose it will mostly be listened to without a decoder. The possibility of recovering (2D) B-Format can be very useful, I think

[Sursound] BBC Radio Three Surround Streaming Trial (15. to 31. March)

2014-03-16 Thread David Pickett
I just stumbled on this: http://rdmedia.bbc.co.uk/radio3/faq.html I have an appropriate soundcard; but am not sure I want to install Google Chrome... (Bummer that it doesnt work on Firefox!) has anyone David ___ Sursound mailing list

Re: [Sursound] BBC Radio Three Surround Streaming Trial (15. to 31. March)

2014-03-16 Thread Augustine Leudar
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Re: [Sursound] BBC Radio Three Surround Streaming Trial (15. to 31. March)

2014-03-16 Thread David Pickett
At 18:55 16-03-14, Augustine Leudar wrote: Good find ! Chrome isn't so bad actually - I use it firefox and opera - chrome is by far the fastest to load and less memory hungry than firefox though I too prefer firefox Ok, if I take a chance oin Chrome not taking over my machine, then the

Re: [Sursound] BBC Radio Three Surround Streaming Trial (15. to 31. March)

2014-03-16 Thread Augustine Leudar
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Re: [Sursound] BBC Radio Three Surround Streaming Trial (15. to 31. March)

2014-03-16 Thread Augustine Leudar
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Re: [Sursound] Question about UHJ

2014-03-16 Thread Martin Leese
Schumacher Marlon wrote: Hi, Thanks everybody for your well-considered comments. The reason for going for a 2-channel format is compatibility with distribution media formats (CD) - and I suppose it will mostly be listened to without a decoder. The possibility of recovering (2D) B-Format can

Re: [Sursound] Question about UHJ

2014-03-16 Thread Paul Hodges
--On 16 March 2014 12:38 -0600 Martin Leese martin.le...@stanfordalumni.org wrote: Unfortunately, converting back from UHJ to B-Format (and then to other formats) cannot be done without loss. Surely it would be better to say that the encoding to UHJ is where the loss takes place, and the

Re: [Sursound] Question about UHJ

2014-03-16 Thread Kan Kaban
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Re: [Sursound] BBC Radio Three Surround Streaming Trial (15. to 31. March)

2014-03-16 Thread David Pickett
At 19:30 16-03-14, Augustine Leudar wrote: right mouse button over volume control in bottom right hand corner playack devices click RME set default restart browser/applet On that panel each of the pairs of RME output is presented separately... (I'll look for the documentation on the

Re: [Sursound] BBC Radio Three Surround Streaming Trial (15. to 31. March)

2014-03-16 Thread Marc Lavallée
Augustine Leudar augustineleu...@gmail.com a écrit : There not streaming at the moment so I cant test it - I would guess that either the browser automatically routes the 4 channels to 1,2,3,4 on the soundcard or there is some way of telling it which outputs to route the 4 channels to. I have

Re: [Sursound] BBC Radio Three Surround Streaming Trial (15. to 31. March)

2014-03-16 Thread Richard Dobson
On 16/03/2014 20:36, Marc Lavallée wrote: Augustine Leudar augustineleu...@gmail.com a écrit : There not streaming at the moment so I cant test it - I would guess that either the browser automatically routes the 4 channels to 1,2,3,4 on the soundcard or there is some way of telling it which

Re: [Sursound] BBC Radio Three Surround Streaming Trial (15. to 31. March)

2014-03-16 Thread Marc Lavallée
Augustine Leudar augustineleu...@gmail.com a écrit : not at home now - cant you just swap the leads round on the jack interface ? My mistake was to listen to the outputs labeled rear-left and rear-right; the outputs for the surround channels are labeled side-left and side-right. So, it works