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The pirate scene is about playing stuff on current consumer hardware. Not to mention, they also need the hardware to encode stuff. Neither of which is attractiv
by bubblethink 8y ago
The pirate scene is about playing stuff on current consumer hardware. Not to mention, they also need the hardware to encode stuff. Neither of which is attractive for av1 at the moment. Some pockets of the pirate scene used to be about open standards, but I think a lot of that died out. One tracker that I know moved from flac audio in remuxes for a long time to dts-hd ma. I don't remember the exact reasons. Maybe multi-channel flac isn't good, or people have better luck with receivers and dts-hd ma.
- stordoff 8y agoIt's possibly because Atmos requires DTS-HD MA (there's no free alternative), or because people playing on standalone hardware are more likely to support DTS-HD MA than FLAC. In general though, FLAC will compress to smaller than the equivalent DTS-HD MA.