A better Firefox(and Chrome) extension should be made to detect ambisonics content, with editable options like you suggest. I'd be much easier (and useful for professionals) than trying to embed a decoder in the browser. That looks like a fun week-end project. :) — Marc
> On Oct 13, 2017, at 1:59 PM, Jörn Nettingsmeier > <netti...@stackingdwarves.net> wrote: > > On 10/13/2017 02:54 PM, Marc Lavallée wrote: >> More about this solution. >> The MPV player (http://mpv.io/) have a youtube-dl backend that allows to >> play youtube videos directly. So first install it, and test it with a >> youtube URL. Then install the Firefox extension and try it. >> The source code of the extension is available: >> https://github.com/antoniy/mpv-youtube-dl-binding.git >> It could be modified to detect ambisonics content and rewire the audio >> output of MPV to use an ambisonics decoder. > > mpv can use jack as output. The command line would look something like this: > > mpv --ao jack --jack_port=ardour.YoutubeIn.* <filename> > > The "ardour..." thing is a regular expression to match the jack ports, the > dot is any single character, dot-asterisk means arbitrarily many characters. > Note you may not directly be able to use ambdec, because the channel ordering > might get mixed up, so I suggest running ardour or whatever jack-capable DAW > you like and hook that up to your decoder. > > If you cannot configure this in whatever Firefox magic you use, here's a > trick: > * find the mpv binary and (as root) rename it to mpv.bin or something > * where the mpv file used to be (and is now mpv.bin), create a file "mpv" > that contains the following: > > #!/bin/bash > mpv --ao jack --jack_port=ardour.YoutubeIn.* $* > > > That's all, now your script (with the jack magic gets called instead, and the > $* makes sure it gets handed all parameters originally used. > Check out, maybe mpv also has a config file where you can set JACK as > default, that would be even simpler. > > All of the above should work in Linux and OS X, not sure how to do it in > windows (but I'm sure it can be done). > > > All best, > > > Jörn > > > > -- > Jörn Nettingsmeier > De Rijpgracht 8, 1055VR Amsterdam, Nederland > Tel. +49 177 7937487 > > Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio), Tonmeister VDT > http://stackingdwarves.net > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit > account or options, view archives and so on. _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
