[LAD] LV2 port groups

[Jörn Nettingsmeier]

David Robillard wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 18:27 +0200, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
>> David Robillard wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 11:02 -0400, David Robillard wrote:
>>>> http://lv2plug.in/ns/dev/port-groups.lv2/port-groups.html
>>> P.S. Comments on this from anyone with experience in multi-channel stuff
>>> would be appreciated if there's any problems.
>>>
>>> It's being used to support proper multi-channel streams for LV2 in
>>> GStreamer (work in progress), in keeping with the theme of getting along
>>> better with them desktop guys :)
>>>
>>> Personally I would like to see this sort of metadata get exposed at the
>>> JACK level quite a bit (e.g. so things can do auto-connect logically).
>>> All we'd need is a key/value system...
>> is anybody using this yet? if not, can i suggest that the ambisonic
>> groups be renamed to #H#P, and that #H#V be reserved to that new scheme
>> introduced by travis, as explained in another mail?
> 
> (The "re-use" of #H#V there seems crazy to me... (re: your other email))
> 
> Anyway, no, nobody is using this yet.  I'm really just defining things
> at this point so future stuff that needs it can use it easily and get
> along.  First thing's first and all that.
> 
> I will name the groups (multi-channel) H#P.  I suppose I should use e.g.
> acn1Channel rather than wChannel for the roles (single channel) too...

yes. with all that rdf magic, is it possible to include a pointer to
http://ambisonics.ch/standards/channels/ directly in the spec?