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That's actually close to another very important point. Most movies come with a 5.1 mix nowadays, and people watch them on a stereo system. Most players use a ve
by boltzmann-brain 4y ago
That's actually close to another very important point. Most movies come with a 5.1 mix nowadays, and people watch them on a stereo system. Most players use a very simple formula when converting 5.1 to stereo, something like say Lout = 1/2 Lin + 1/3 SLin, Rout = 1/2 Rin + 1/3 SRin, and leave out the center channel completely. This is also done inside of TVs etc. The center channel gets dropped completely! And sometimes dialogue is only in the center channel - not all of it, but there are some lines every now and then that just only ever come out of the center channel. Those are lost.
- PcChip 4y agoAre you sure? I thought a lot of people were successfully running "phantom centers" by just using L and R
- boltzmann-brain 4y agoIf the information from the C channel is dropped, and the speech information was only in C or for the most part in C, it won't be in L+R, or it will be to some insufficient extent because it'll get obscured by whatever else is happening.
- epistasis 4y agoThis sounds too stupid to actually be true, but it also seems to correspond to my experience. It makes me sad that there's an engineer or produce designer out there, anywhere, who would intentionally pull something like this. It's sadistic. Why ruin your product?
- boltzmann-brain 4y agoThe issue is that most programmers think there's nothing to know about the non-programming-related engineering they're encoding into their programs. So we get crappy audio, we get cars driving into bollards, delivery robots driving over crime scenes, home automation destroying houses, smart locks that can be picked without tools, etc. People severely overestimate their knowledge of what's going on, and underestimate how much complexity there is to the phenomena they're dealing with.