Google wants to take on Dolby with new open media formats

Re:Google wants to take on Dolby with new open media formats by crazygringo on Thursday September 22, 2022 @03:13PM (#32943371)

Yup. Joint encoding [1] is really the main thing, but that's something that codecs already do, ever since MP3 with stereo music.

The overall point remains: multichannel open container formats exist, and open audio codecs exist. An open standard for 5.1 surround sound, for example, seems like a relatively straightforward combination of the two. I'm not saying you can do it overnight, but compared to other open-source efforts, it's tiny.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_encoding

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Re:Google wants to take on Dolby with new open media formats by KerrAvon on Thursday September 22, 2022 @06:13PM (#32945311)

Multichannel joint encoding doesn't sound trivial to me.

Hmm, it's not:

https://patents.google.com/patent/JPH1051313A/en

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Re:Google wants to take on Dolby with new open media formats by justinclift on Thursday September 22, 2022 @11:39PM (#32947750)

Ugh. That just looks like someone's attempt to optimise some aspect, rather than anything fundamentally needed for the concept to work.

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