I recently was lucky enough to have a 5.1 speaker system installed. Yea, I'm a bit late to the surround sound party, it seems.
Never mind... the good thing about coming in late to a mature technology is that it should be super simple to create my own content in the format, right? It could be quite fun I guess to mess about with and see what "experiences" I might be able to create.
One rather silly idea was to get the attract mode music for a few notable arcade games, map 1 to each of the 6 channels, and see if it can use the file to recreate the illusion of being in an arcade while playing games.
So I started looking for software that would let me do this. According to ChatGPT, the first 5.1 capable sound card came out TWENTY FOUR YEARS ago. Surely by now there will be a wide variety of free and paid for tools to achieve this by now, right?
Mother is the assumption of all evil and, as far as I can tell, there's actually no free software to do this easily.... I certainly haven't been able to find anything. Adobe Premiere and Logic (which I think is now mac exclusive) were suggested but they are well out of budget; especially as right now I'm only playing around out of curiosity.
So I went to ChatGPT and asked for a FFMpeg command that might work. After a LOT of the usual ChatGPT nonsense, I finally was given a command that would actually output a file without failing. When I import the said file into audacity it shows up with 5 different streams. But whenever I try and play it using Audacity or with VLC on the computer (connected via bluetooth), or VLC on my Android box (connected via optical cable), all I hear is all five separate tracks playing at the same time on ALL speakers; the sounds are not distributed as I had hoped for.
Here is the command I was given which produces the misbehaving file:
Does anybody here have any insight into fixing the command so it will create a genuine 5.1 recording? Or does anybody know of any free tools (or at least inexpensive ones with a free trial) that will enable me to make 5.1 sound mixes?
Never mind... the good thing about coming in late to a mature technology is that it should be super simple to create my own content in the format, right? It could be quite fun I guess to mess about with and see what "experiences" I might be able to create.
One rather silly idea was to get the attract mode music for a few notable arcade games, map 1 to each of the 6 channels, and see if it can use the file to recreate the illusion of being in an arcade while playing games.
So I started looking for software that would let me do this. According to ChatGPT, the first 5.1 capable sound card came out TWENTY FOUR YEARS ago. Surely by now there will be a wide variety of free and paid for tools to achieve this by now, right?
Mother is the assumption of all evil and, as far as I can tell, there's actually no free software to do this easily.... I certainly haven't been able to find anything. Adobe Premiere and Logic (which I think is now mac exclusive) were suggested but they are well out of budget; especially as right now I'm only playing around out of curiosity.
So I went to ChatGPT and asked for a FFMpeg command that might work. After a LOT of the usual ChatGPT nonsense, I finally was given a command that would actually output a file without failing. When I import the said file into audacity it shows up with 5 different streams. But whenever I try and play it using Audacity or with VLC on the computer (connected via bluetooth), or VLC on my Android box (connected via optical cable), all I hear is all five separate tracks playing at the same time on ALL speakers; the sounds are not distributed as I had hoped for.
Here is the command I was given which produces the misbehaving file:
Code:
ffmpeg -i fl.mp3 -i fr.mp3 -i c.mp3 -i rl.mp3 -i rr.mp3 -filter_complex "[0:a][1:a][2:a][3:a][4:a]amerge=inputs=5,pan=5.1|FL=c0|FR=c1|FC=c2|BL=c3|BR=c4|LFE=c5[out]" -map "[out]" -ac 6 output_5.1.mp3Does anybody here have any insight into fixing the command so it will create a genuine 5.1 recording? Or does anybody know of any free tools (or at least inexpensive ones with a free trial) that will enable me to make 5.1 sound mixes?
