VLC MacOS X Dolby Digital 5.1 support

[Daniel Schneider]

>Is Dolby Digital an open standard ? I'm pretty sure DTS isn't, and 
>that's why nobody in the open source community managed to write a 
>DTS decoder so far.

I think you're right, DTS isn't open. But Dolby Digital aka AC-3 
should be, isn't liba52 a free AC-3 decoder?
http://liba52.sourceforge.net/

AC-3 seems also to be known as the A/52 standard:
http://www.atsc.org/standards/a_52a.pdf

Dany

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