Re: channel layouts and up/down mixing

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Frederick Umminger <
frederick.umminger@gmail.com> wrote:

> An extra clever solution would be to use GUIDs for the enums so that
> formats can be defined by multiple parties independently
> without needing a central registry to prevent name clashes.
>

That's not enough since the Web Audio implementation has to be able to mix
from any format to any other.

On another thread Tim Terriberry mentioned that Vorbis hasn't needed to
support channel layouts beyond the one-layout-per-number-of-channels
defined in the specification (for the last 15 years anyway). Web Audio's a
slightly different realm but it suggests at least a similar approach for
Web Audio will suffice for version 1.

Rob
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