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oelewapper
3rd January 2007, 20:38
Don't know if this is against the rulez, but I saw an excellent conversion from stereo to surround on Usenet from Pink Floyd's album "Meddle".

One of the best conversions I ever heard !!
It's really incredible what kind of results you can get by the latest software. IMHO this is worth a commercial release.
check
4th January 2007, 04:30
Any upconvert from a stereo source will simply be using dolby prologic or a similar process to fake it. You can get exactly the same output by running such a filter in real time (ffdshow includes prologic I/II) on the original stereo mix and save yourself a lot of storage space.
specise_8472
4th January 2007, 04:35
Any upconvert from a stereo source will simply be using dolby prologic or a similar process to fake it. You can get exactly the same output by running such a filter in real time (ffdshow includes prologic I/II) on the original stereo mix and save yourself a lot of storage space.

Oh damm, then all my Ambisonic knowledge and Steves VI method are just DPL. And here we thought we were doing something different. Thanks for pointing this out.
oelewapper
4th January 2007, 09:00
I guess this was Check's first message in the audio encoding section ?
If not, I suggest you start reading about converting stereo to surround......
check
4th January 2007, 09:10
:stupid:

err, yes, one of my first, and also rather hurried :o
I forgot to start the sentence with "Any usenet upconvert".
boondocks
5th January 2007, 00:36
:stupid:

err, yes, one of my first, and also rather hurried :o
I forgot to start the sentence with "Any usenet upconvert".

Wow. I've heard some pretty good stuff, personally. Some of which was almost discrete.
:shrug:

boondocks
daphy
5th January 2007, 21:17
this version of meddle sounds real great

greetz daphy
oelewapper
6th January 2007, 21:22
this version of meddle sounds real great

greetz daphy


I downloaded the DVDA version and was really surprised about the quality.
Which version of the three mixes did you like the most ?

As I heard it, QSXT and SMaCS had some slight artefacts, but they were not bothering me. The 225WAD version sounded the most natural but had less separation than the other two.

I cannot make my mind up which one I prefer ;)
daphy
11th January 2007, 17:04
Hiho,

I tried the DTS version - unfortunately my computer os broke, so no further experments on sound listening so far :mad: