FWIW, the (expensive) Meridian domestic DSP's can accept and decode Dolby TrueHD, which is based upon MLP and one of their boxes can extract 8 channel from HDMI. Also, I know from direct experience that a G series decoder can accept and decode B-format from one of its sets of line inputs.
On 18 Dec 2013, at 10:21, Andy Furniss <adf.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > Stefan Schreiber wrote: >> Andy Furniss wrote: > >>> Nothing to do with this thread and I am not saying that any players >>> use it, but I did see the words Ambisonic and WXYZ in the spec, so >>> there is some provision for carrying and flagging as special >>> b-format in a DTS extension stream. >>> >> >> Maybe hidden in the TrueHD spec, but Blu-Ray doesn't support anything >> like WXYZ. Having worked a bit on disc standards before, and never >> saw anything of this... > > I don't claim any expertise in anything I write here and am often wrong > :-) but ... > > I would say that's debatable, in that bluray players should accept > Dolby/DCA and both are specified so that decoders skip > substreams/extensions that they don't know about. > > Additionally if instructed, the player can just pass on bitstreams > without decoding to a receiver without caring what it contains. > > Of course there may not currently exist and decoders that could use > wxyz, but from a compatibility point of view I don't thing it would be > impossible for current disks/players to handle a stream with wxyz > embedded - they wouldn't know or care. Even a normal decoder wouldn't > care and could just do what it knows about. If a stream with wxyx were > not primary - and bluray can mux many soundtracks, you could even have > the core compatibility stream contain sound telling you that you need a > special setup to use this track. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
