Add support for importing ambisonic WAV files and 24/32 bit PCM WAV files.
The standard ambisonic format used internally in LÖVR is ACN channel ordering with SN3D normalization.
Anything else will be converted to this form.
There are a few restrictions and assumptions:
- Only 1st order ambisonics are supported. They need to have 4 channels.
- They can be in AMB format (Furse-Malham order/normalization), detected via WAVE_EXTENSIBLE GUID.
- Any other 4 channel file is assumed to be in "AmbiX" ACN/SN3D format.
- It seems that most ambisonic files in the wild that claim to be AmbiX are just 4 channel WAVs without any metadata.
- This means that non-ambisonic 4 channel WAVs could ambiguously be mistaken as ambisonic. This is incurred as a limitation of LÖVR.
- Ambisonic files can not currently be played back. SteamAudio currently has numerous bugs with this.
- Perhaps it would be possible to write an ambisonic rotator/panning decoder to use as a default implementation.
bjorn
Nevyn Bengtsson
bjorn
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