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filler56789 · 27th April 2015, 19:42

Some more food for the thought:

As AC3, DTS and MLP were designed to support 1.1, 2.1, two types of 3.0/3.1 and two types of 4.0/4.1, probably their designers were thinking about the needs of the content creators/producers; I mean, if someone wants to create, for example, a 4-channel-only audio track, fine, then he/she will not need to create 2 additional dummy channels because of half-assed format_specifications /firmware /software.

Now, regarding the AAC specs:
¿why define TWO methods for identifying a channel layout? What's the point?

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filler56789 SuperVirus Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Antarctic Japan Posts: 1,351	Some more food for the thought: As AC3, DTS and MLP were designed to support 1.1, 2.1, two types of 3.0/3.1 and two types of 4.0/4.1, probably their designers were thinking about the needs of the content creators/producers; I mean, if someone wants to create, for example, a 4-channel-only audio track, fine, then he/she will not need to create 2 additional dummy channels because of half-assed format_specifications /firmware /software. Now, regarding the AAC specs: ¿why define TWO methods for identifying a channel layout? What's the point? Last edited by filler56789; 27th April 2015 at 20:23. Reason: add MLP to the list