[gmpi] Re: Revised Topic 7.1: Audio I/O

  • From: Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 13:14:59 +0100

On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 08:03:46 -0700, Tim Hockin wrote:
> > > Q 7.1.3: Do we support non-trivial encodings?  For example: 'LtRt' is a
> > > 4-channel encoding, stored on 2-channels, which uses phase information
> > > to decode into 4 channels.
> > >   d)  Other. Explain.
> > 
> > Forget about matrix encoding, its what everyone else does and it works
> > fine. Channels of surround formats can be taagged, with no hard
> > specification of how to handle that. Let the host sort it out.
> 
> I don't get exactly what you are saying..Just tag a stream as 'LtRt' and
> leave it as two channels?  Or decode it to 4 channels?

Leave it as 2. The encode/decode process is lossy, so you dont waht to do
it implicitly for one thing.

- Steve

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