2 Jun
2008
2 Jun
'08
12:45 p.m.
2008/6/2 Arnold Krille <arnold(a)arnoldarts.de>de>:
Am Montag, 2. Juni 2008 schrieb Stefano D'Angelo:
What about this: 5.1 stream and you have an effect doing low-pass
filtering on one channel. You use 6 instances and you're done with it,
and a clever host (not too much) could let you control their
parameters together at the same time.
(Anyway, I forgot to put the channel number on which to operate in the
run() callback.)
2008/6/2 Arnold Krille
<arnold(a)arnoldarts.de>de>:
Because:
Either your plugins are all stereo in and stereo out. Too bad that no one can
use your plugin-format to do 5.1-downmixing or converting stereo/5.1 to
stereo-for-headphones. Bummer, won't be used.
Or all the plugins are 5.1 (= six channels). Neither the stereo-only crowds
will adopt your interface nor the 7.1 cineastics. Am Montag, 2. Juni 2008 schrieb Fons Adriaensen:
Because...? On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 01:39:26PM +0200, Stefano
D'Angelo wrote:
> It would work like this:
> stereo input -> hosts converts to 5.1
What do you mean by 'converts to 5.1' ?
That's actually what the plugin is supposed to do,
and the only reason why it's being used. If the host
is doing this sort of thing then you don't need plugins
at all.
@Stefano: Without having seen anything from your spec, when you don't
allow different numbers of input- and output-channels your spec is
absolutely worthless. And if you answer that conversion between numbers of
channels should be done
by the host and not by different plugins, what need for plugins do remain for
the average media-player? EQ? That can be done by the host too, no need to
add a plugin-infrastructure for that.
I take audacious as an example, here's a list of effects implemented
for its API:
- compressor
- "crystalizer"
- echo
- time stretching and pitch shifting
- voice removal
- freeverb3
- pole-zero plot filter
You don't have to listen to me. But there are some
good folks in this list
with _lots_ of knowledge and experience with plugins (Paul Davis, Fons
Adriansen, Lars Luthman(n?), Nedko Arnaudov to name just a few). and while
they might have different views each other, you should _really_ listen to
them...
When you discuss something you usually listen. That's what I'm doing.
Stefano