[vorbis] AC-3 Decoding

[David Balazic]

Jared (jared at celab21.students.csee.uq.edu.au) wrote :

> Saw an article today on /. which reports that Dolby are insisting the
> NETBSD dudes remove the ac3dec package from their site. Someone suggested
> that we need an open source solution.

ac3dec is already open ( GPL ).

> Could Vorbis in the Ogg framework be this solution, can we create a pretty
> simple 5.1 stream?

I _believe_ ogg/vorbis can support multichannel sound.
It also supports real spatial (3D, AC3 is only 2D) sound.

None of this is actually available right now , AFAIK.


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