> Well, if we're going for 'completeness', then please also consider:
3) Chris' (and maybe others' too) idea a) Load LtRt 2-channel stream as-is b) Process these 2 channels with LtRt-specific plug-ins - an LtRt plug-in will know enough not to do anything to the signal that would invalidate the LtRt encoding c) Output LtRt - because you have not done invalid things, your encoding is guaranteed to be valid as an LtRt stream
Which is a fine model, IMHO. It requires the plugin to explicitly support the format...
...which means that LtRt != Stereo. A stereo attentuator, for
example, would not be able to handle an LtRt Stream, unless the user forced
it (if the host allows that at all - tag it as Stereo, tag it back afterwards).
Note that this goes contrary to some opinions expressed in earlier discussion of encodings ;) Those opinions were that connecting LtRt to Stereo is just fine. You are now espousing MY position :)
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