On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:32:56PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote: [...]
Iam not saying that there is any need or sense to store this nor that i would know what a decoder would do with that information, but i do know copper purity counters will prefer NUT over other formats if the distance is stored.
Well I would like to see some mathematical/physical reason that it's potentially useful rather than the opinions of people who pay for solid-gold *digital* audio cables to give their sound "more body"...
Id say liquid he cooled superconductive cables are better (for digital of course). Anyway, technical reason: If the player knows the reference locations and actual locations it can adjust the delays to avoid unwanted interference. And no i dont know how well it would work in practice. Though with extreem cases like 1km difference it could correct the resulting A/V desync at least.
Otherwise I don't see anything wrong.
good, what about the flag to skip the stuff = unknown pos? Do we want one if not what should be muxer store if it doesnt know the pos?
I suspect skipping pos should not be legal for >2 channels.. For 2 channels or fewer, making it optional would be nice.
I dont think its too usefull for 2 ch, a default of (-1,0,0) (1,0,0) would be easy for the muxer to store. And similar for 1 ch ... But if a muxer has to store 5ch audio, figuring out the channel placement could be trickier. Iam not saying iam against it, actually maybe it is the correct thing to do, and having this optional would just lead to it being missing most of the time ... [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. -- Socrates