I'll go back to school for awhile. I am lost for a little while.
This stuff is new and different for me.
I just want to find the best and cheapest solution to play good 4
channel on a cheap dvd playback system.
Rich Peet
--- In Wild Sanctuary <>
wrote:
> Not really, Rich. In our mixes, we employ our own encoding tech
that
> will decode surround in all known formats. Check any of our current
> 20 CDs, for example.
>
> Bernie Krause
>
> >I understood that sacd was out of the question for a private
> >recordist. I thought we were restricted to dolby tech. for the
> >little guy?
> >
> >Rich Peet
> >
> >--- In "Greg Weddig"
<>
> >wrote:
> >> I have a short response to that, DVD-Audio format or SACD.
> >> Multichannel formats that can reproduce high resolution
multichannel
> >> sound, with or without lossless compression.
> >> The encoding software is rather expensive and the hardware is
> >slightly
> >> esoteric at the moment but with more DVD players supporting
> >> multiformat discs, I think this will change and prices will
drop.
> >>
> >> --greg
> >>
> >>
> >> --- In "Rich Peet"
<>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Well, ya, the big guy is severly low-passed in mp3. But this
> >bird is
> >> > like that. Check out the side by side of the wave vs the mp3
> >that I
> >> > mixed within one wave file.
> >> >
> >> > 350 kb download at:
> >> > http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/GHO.wav
> >> >
> >> > My feelings on Surround should have been based as a question.
> >> > This stuff is so mixed with sales hype that to figure out how
to
> >work
> >> > with it is really hard.
> >> >
> >> > I got into trouble reading at:
> >> >
>
>http://www.dolby.com/professional/Support/tech.overview.html#DolbyDig
i
> >> > tal
> >> >
> >> > It appears that you can not have 4 channels of 10khz range
birds
> >> > singing at the same time and cover them with full bit depth.
That
> >was
> >> > the sparrow comment. The thunder comment is probably workable
> >with
> >> > hours of post. When a signal uses both the areas above and
below
> >the
> >> > lfe channel the sums and sides appear to be very hard to work
> >with.
> >> > Maybe it can be done with a lot of work. It appears that the
> >rear
> >> > surround channels were put there for sound reinforcement and
not
> >to
> >> > be used as full distinct channels.
> >> >
> >> > I will continue to educate myself and work in full 4 channel
but
> >> > geeze Dan do you have a magic decoder ring that can tell us if
> >this
> >> > tech will work for us if we want full four channel with high
bit
> >> > depth?
> >> >
> >> > Rich Peet
> >> >
> >> > --- In Dan Dugan <>
> >wrote:
> >> > > Rich Peet, you wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > >Now with GHOW's you can get by with a tiny mp3 file
because of
> >> > those
> >> > > >nice low notes.
> >> > > >
> >> > > ><20 kb download
> >> > > >http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/GHO1.mp3
> >> > >
> >> > > Yeah, but it sounds low-passed...
> >> > >
> >> > > >But if my reading is right you can not even put a sparrow
or
> >> > thunder
> >> > > >on the surround channels of dolby 5.1. Looks like home
> >theator
> >> > will
> >> > > >not be our future format.
> >> > >
> >> > > Please explain.
> >> > >
> >> > > -Dan Dugan
> >
> >
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