[Sursound] OctoMic VR 8k Video, New Files on OctoMic Recording Download Page

[Len Moskowitz]

Phillip Westbrook posted on Facebook:

"A recent production done in Venice Italy with the OctoMic! The second
order version of course sounds better, but I'm really enjoying how easy
the OctoMic is to use."


  

[YouTube videos currently offer only first-audio ambisonic audio.]


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In addition, Core Sound posted a few new files to the OctoMic Recording
Download web page:


   www.core-sound.com/OctoMic/13.php


Len Moskowitz (***@core-sound.com)
Core Sound LLC
www.core-sound.com
Home of OctoMic and TetraMic

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[Eric Benjamin]

I’d love to hear the second order version.

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From: Len Moskowitz
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Subject: [Sursound] OctoMic VR 8k Video,New Files on OctoMic Recording Download Page

Phillip Westbrook posted on Facebook:

"A recent production done in Venice Italy with the OctoMic! The second
order version of course sounds better, but I'm really enjoying how easy
the OctoMic is to use."


   http://youtu.be/qG_uKfmBAtk


[YouTube videos currently offer only first-audio ambisonic audio.]


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In addition, Core Sound posted a few new files to the OctoMic Recording
Download web page:


   www.core-sound.com/OctoMic/13.php


Len Moskowitz (***@core-sound.com)
Core Sound LLC
www.core-sound.com
Home of OctoMic and TetraMic

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[Len Moskowitz]

Thanks to Phillip, I've posted the link to the econd-order file on the
web page: www.core-sound.com/OctoMic/13.php .

https://www.dropbox.com/s/t02iz1cj1ccblmi/Venice%20Gondola%20VR%20%28Oculus%20Go%29.mkv


Len Moskowitz (***@core-sound.com)
Core Sound LLC
www.core-sound.com
Home of OctoMic and TetraMic

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On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 02:23 PM, Eric Benjamin wrote:

I’d love to hear the second order version.

[David Pickett]

This is cool!

Please can anyone tell me how I can get VLC to
feed 4.0 or 5.1 or whatever ambisonic sound
format is available from this video -- ideally
directly to my RME UFX (through the "speakers"
option in the Windows applet)? Alternatively, B
format. All I can get at present is stereo.

If VLC is the problem (although I can play my
surround audio files with it), what DOES work?

Thanks,

David

Post by Len Moskowitz
"A recent production done in Venice Italy with
the OctoMic! The second order version of course
sounds better, but I'm really enjoying how easy the OctoMic is to use."
  http://youtu.be/qG_uKfmBAtk
[YouTube videos currently offer only first-audio ambisonic audio.]

[Bruce Wiggins]

VLC should work. They're are ambisonic to 5.0 and 7.0 decoders now
included...... I'll have a play around......

Cheers

Bruce

Post by David Pickett
This is cool!
Please can anyone tell me how I can get VLC to
feed 4.0 or 5.1 or whatever ambisonic sound
format is available from this video -- ideally
directly to my RME UFX (through the "speakers"
option in the Windows applet)? Alternatively, B
format. All I can get at present is stereo.
If VLC is the problem (although I can play my
surround audio files with it), what DOES work?
Thanks,
David

Post by Len Moskowitz
"A recent production done in Venice Italy with
the OctoMic! The second order version of course
sounds better, but I'm really enjoying how easy the OctoMic is to use."
  http://youtu.be/qG_uKfmBAtk
[YouTube videos currently offer only first-audio ambisonic audio.]

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[Paul Hodges]

--On 07 November 2018 16:15 +0000 Bruce Wiggins

Post by Bruce Wiggins
VLC should work. They're are ambisonic to 5.0 and 7.0 decoders now
included......

Since when? They are not in VLC v3.0.4 which claims to be current, nor
does the VLC wiki contain the word Ambisonic.

Paul

[David Pickett]

Bruce's posting reminded me to upgrade VLC to 3.0.4.

It says here https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.0.html : "VLC
supports 360 video and 3D audio, up to Ambisonics 3rd order"

In the basic installation, there is an "Ambisonics renderer and
binauralizer" plugin listed under "Tools/Plugins and extensions". I
dont know whether it needs some action to install it, but in any
case, I am not interested in Binaural.

In April 2014 (how time flies!), when I was putting some test 4.0
multichannel .mp4 files on my website, I feel sure that I had them
play back locally through VLC, but I could be mistaken, and I cant
recall how I might have done it.

David

Post by Paul Hodges
--On 07 November 2018 16:15 +0000 Bruce Wiggins

Post by Bruce Wiggins
VLC should work. They're are ambisonic to 5.0 and 7.0 decoders now
included......

Since when? They are not in VLC v3.0.4 which claims to be current, nor
does the VLC wiki contain the word Ambisonic.
Paul
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Post by David Pickett
In the basic installation, there is an "Ambisonics renderer and
binauralizer" plugin listed under "Tools/Plugins and extensions".
I don't know whether it needs some action to install it, but in any
case, I am not interested in Binaural.

My reading is that the renderer works on its own, and the binauraliser
is separate. However, I can find no clue how to invoke it; when I
offered it a .amb file, the codec information claimed it had three
front channels and one LFE! And how does it decide otherwise what
convention the file is made to?

Post by David Pickett
In April 2014 (how time flies!), when I was putting some test 4.0
multichannel .mp4 files on my website, I feel sure that I had them
play back locally through VLC, but I could be mistaken, and I cant
recall how I might have done it.

In Windows, the key is to have configured the audio device (default, or
whichever is selected in VLC) in Control Panel/Sounds to have the right
number of channels - then VLC (and any browser) will play 4.0 or 5.1
files appropriately for the number of speakers you have. I have
hundreds of 4.0 files on my web site (behind a password, sorry)*, and
they simply play as required. It does require the driver to have the
Windows multi-channel mode implemented though - so MOTU interfaces
don't work, because they haven't bothered (I've been using VB-Audio's
ASIO Bridge to get around this, though its setup is far from intuitive).

Paul

* OK, there are just a few here if you scroll down a bit:
https://tetrahedral.audio/ta-recording

[Paul Hodges]

Post by David Pickett
All I can get at present is stereo.
If VLC is the problem (although I can play my surround audio files
with it), what DOES work?

I presume it is being rendered as a binaural sound track for headphones
- certainly the audio image moves around when you rotate the displayed
image in the browser window. I imagine this is being done at YouTube
in response to the browser passing back the required panning position.

Paul