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Re:FLAC 1.3.4 by magicalhippo on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @03:14AM (#30438846)
What are the use-cases for pre-baked positional audio? Ie where the client can't do the positional audio processing itself.
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Re:FLAC 1.3.4 by dale_glass on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @03:54AM (#30439122)
Not pre-baked. I work on https://vircadia.com/ -- it has to give every user their own audio mix to account for their 3D position.

This means codec costs add up fast. You can't just encode once and stream the same thing to a dozen people.

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Re:FLAC 1.3.4 by magicalhippo on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @04:31AM (#30439323)
Oh right, I read that wrong. Thought you did per-voice 3D positional encoding on server but mixing on client.

Interesting use-case, got my brain racing off to find silly solutions.

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