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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 19 for Windows => Topic started by: BradC on May 26, 2014, 02:55:55 am
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Hi
I have searched the wiki and forum to find an answer without success.
My question is how does JRiver label the surround channels for a 7.1 system?
From http://www.dolby.com/uploadedFiles/Assets/US/Doc/Consumer/Dolby-Home-Theatre-Speaker-Guide-7.1-6-8.pdf
the surround channels are surround left, surround right, left back and right back.
using the audio calibration tool in jriver and set to 7.1 channels, it labels channels 5 and 6 as the surrounds for a 7.1 system. Does this mean left and right back?
If so, is the fact that channels 5 and 6 are set to left and right back (and not left and right surround as I would have expected) going to work correctly with 7.1 channel movie sound tracks?
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7.1 audio calibration has 5/6 as rear left/right for me, and 7/8 as surround left/right, rear is back, obviously, and surround is side.
This is the proper order of channels for Windows Audio, back before sides.
You can confirm with a 7.1 channel position clip to check if all comes out the right channels, with this for example: http://files.1f0.de/samples/Surround_TrueHD_7.1.mkv
If the channel mapping is wrong, the airplane movement sounds rather weird - if its right, it should sound like its flying around you.
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See also this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surround_sound#Channel_identification
Note that they use a zero based index, whereas you and Hendrik are using a one based index...
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See also this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surround_sound#Channel_identification
I'm not sure that page is right, WAV clearly should have rears before sides, unlike the "Channel identification" table suggest, according to standard wave channel orderings:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn653308(v=vs.85).aspx
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I'm not sure that page is right
Hmm. It does look fishy to me too.
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Thanks, I'll try the mkv clip.
I think I need to swap the rears and surrounds