I improved my test / demo site www.ohti.xyz today. I added the demo for Omnitone SOA and TOA playback, with drag and drop an rotation, local file playback.
It works in Chrome on my 3 year old Lenovo yoga tablet 2. The examples I have there is 16 channel 24 bit TOA encoded in opus. The server is somwhere in Germany 😎 I think. By the way VLC supports Ambisonics in the Facebook format (I think). Bosse On 12 Jan 2019 21:52, "Marc Lavallée" <m...@hacklava.net> wrote: Le 2019-01-12 à 3:03 p.m., David Pickett a écrit : > At 20:33 12-01-19, Marc wrote: > >> What seems to be still missing (but I could be wrong), is a >> "standard" standalone ambisonics audio player. If such a player could >> play and decode ambisonics audio streams (hosted on a audio streaming >> web site), then it'd be an excellent start. Something similar to what >> audio streaming is for stereo, and that we take for granted. What >> went wrong with surround sound in general is still a mystery to me... >> But there's hope. > > If I understand you correctly, the idea is to stream WXY (to keep it > simple) and have this decoded in the browser, rather than 4.0 > directly. This seems to me to be akin to using M&S files rather than > L&R. It involves a further layer of complication at the client end, > and I am not sure of the advantage, other than it reduces data > bandwith by 25%; but bandwidth is surely not a problem these days. > > But I am always ready to be corrected! Decoding in the browser would be for casual use, mostly for binaural listening, but decoding to speaker arrays would be nice, for exemple with 5.1 system (as a 4.1 system with a square or rectangular setup). Decoding from a desktop (or mobile) app would be a better start, like in the good old days of "helper apps" for the first web browsers. I guess that ambisonics support could be added to VLC or Volumio, or a custom multi-platform app. Internet radio stations exists because stereo streams can be played on any audio player that can connect to the Internet, so the same could be done for ambisonics. Is it just wishful thinking? Marc _______________________________________________ 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20190112/0c5e1f46/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ 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.
