Audio channel layout atom ('chan')

Overview

This atom is an optional extension to the sound sample description specifying audio channel layouts for sound media contained in QuickTime movies. It is a full atom followed by a big-endian audio channel layout structure as defined by Apple’s Core Audio framework. Audio channel layouts can be applied to both compressed and uncompressed sound formats.

Topics

Data fields

• Size
• Type
• Version
• Flags
• Audio channel layout

See Also

Extending sound sample descriptions

• siSlopeAndIntercept atom
• siDecompressionParam atom ('wave')
• Format atom ('frma')
• Terminator atom ('0x00000000')
• MPEG-4 elementary stream descriptor atom ('esds')
• Subtitle follows track reference atom ('folw')