MP3 Goes for Surround Sound

[Deepak]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20060104/tc_pcworld/124180

Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (Fraunhofer IIS) and France's Thomson SA have added two new elements to MP3 Surround demonstration software: MP3 SX (MP3 Stereo eXtended), which enhances MP3 stereo files for multichannel playback; and Ensonido, which provides portable MP3 Surround sound using stereo headphones, the companies announced Tuesday.

Demo software containing both enhancements can be downloaded for free.

 

[Moloch]

Well after converting a few files to it I'm not impressed.
The center channal sounds all messed up sometimes.
I'll stick to using ffdshow to upmix all my files to 5.1.

 

[MuFu]

I'll stick to using ffdshow to upmix all my files to 5.1.

Is that using the InterVideo filters to encode the audio offline, or is there a way to do it in realtime now?

I used to use the SRS CircleSurround II plugin for WMP - worked pretty well.