On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Andrew Thompson <lordpixel@mac.com> wrote: > Why would you need to? What I mean is, Daniel seems to be thinking of centre > as a logical property describing how the sound should be perceived by the > user whereas you are trying to define exactly how this will be physically > implemented on common speaker configurations. > > Naturally defining how this maps makes interoperability easier to achieve so > its a good thing, but in the particular example you mention, why would an > author care if the center sound is achieved by having the audio predominate > in the front-center speaker or by having equal sound from the front left and > right speakers? Doesn't it sound the same? What's the use case where an > author needs that control? Agreed that control on the speaker-level seems unneeded for this. We're just defining where the speaker should be located relative to the listener; how this directionality is achieved is up to the sound system (or the browser or something; I dunno where the smarts has to happen). ~TJReceived on Tuesday, 12 July 2011 17:13:45 UTC
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