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I once went down a rabbit hole of trying to get realtime AC3 encoding on my desktop PC, and I broadly failed. That was a long time ago. It is now 2024. Do we
by ssl-3 2y ago
I once went down a rabbit hole of trying to get realtime AC3 encoding on my desktop PC, and I broadly failed.
That was a long time ago. It is now 2024.
Do we still need that today? For modern AVRs we have HDMI, with 8 channels worth of up to 24bit 192kHz lossless digital audio baked in.
For old AVRs with multichannel analog inputs, motherboards with 6 or 8 channels of built-in audio are still common-enough, as are separate sound cards with similar functionality.
What's the advantage of realtime AC3 encoding today, do you suppose?
- throwaway81523 2y agoOne reason to want Dolby encoding is to play back on your consumer home theater gear that decode it. Alternatively though, just don't use that kind of gear.