MainConcept Dolby Digital Professional codec plug-in is a powerful codec plug-in for adding this audio format to some of the Reference 2 video codec plug-Ins. Dolby Digital Professional delivers unrivaled audio in home theater systems for an exciting, enveloping surround sound experience.

Dolby Digital is the worldwide standard in film, broadcast, home entertainment, PC, games, and DVDs. The preferred multichannel audio standard for direct broadcast direct to home satellite and digital cable systems. Nearly 60 million digital cable and satellite set-top boxes are currently in use worldwide supported by over 30 million audio/video receivers equipped with 5.1-channel Dolby Digital decoding.

Reference 2 Dolby Digital Professional codec Plug-in can only be used in the following video codec Plug-Ins:

• Reference MPEG-2
• Reference H.264/AVC Pro
• Reference H.264/AVC Broadcast
• Reference VC-1 Pro

Dolby's surround sound technology that delivers high-quality digital audio for up to 5.1 discrete channels (L/C/R/LS/RS/ LFE). It offers the same features base than the Dolby Digital Consumer SDK, but offers a wider range of parameters for optimizing your AC-3 streams, such as more coding modes and a wider range of supported bitrates. The AC-3 standard is based on the ATSC A52 Revision B specification.

Virtually every DVD-Video player sold today offers a two-channel mixdown of the Dolby Digital 5.1 movie soundtrack as well as a digital output for connection to a 5.1-channel audio/video receiver.

The full license codec Plug-In provides unrestricted Dolby Digital Pro support. When purchasing the full license Plug-In, you will receive a serial number to unlock the appropriate codec in the free MainConcept Reference 2 base application. The base application must be installed on your system.

Additionally, you need to install the full version of one or more of the following Codec Plug-Ins: Reference MPEG-2, VC-1 Pro, H.264/AVC Pro and/or H.264/AVC Broadcast.

• Numerous advanced settings for optimizing your Dolby Digital Professional audio streams.
• Encodes PCM audio streams to AC-3 audio streams.
• Supports output bit rates from 64 to 640 kilobits per second.
• Support for 32000, 44100 or 48000 Hz sample rate.
• Supports up to six audio channels.

Audio:

• Dolby Digital Professional (separate plug-in)
• Multi-channel audio support

High-Resolution Manuals:
The documentation of MainConcept Reference is included in the demo version. However, it can also be downloaded separately to give you an overview of the powerful transcoding application. The high-resolution manual is available for free downloading below, in zipped Adobe® Acrobat® format. Currently, only the English version is available.

English manual for MainConcept Reference
(8.83 MB)

To use MainConcept Reference 2, you'll need to make sure that your computer system meets at least these minimum requirements:

Operating systems:

• Microsoft® Windows® 7, XP, Vista and 2000
  (we recommend to install always the current Service Pack for the used operating system), Microsoft®  DirectX 9.0®.
• Mac OS X 10.5 or higher (Mac/Intel)

When you want to use MainConcept Reference within a network, please contact your local sales representative at sales(at)mainconcept.com.

The new version Reference 2.2 comes with the following fixes and improvements:

• Resolved crash when using a JPEG2000 DCI preset for transcoding.
• CUDA H.264/AVC Encoding now included in the Windows and Mac OS X applications from the start.
• Capturing to MPEG-2 Custom preset with Dolby Digital Professional results in audio stream only clips.
• Transcoding JPEG2000 Elementary Stream containing more than 1024 frames causes error.
• Crash of Capture module when capturing to custom VC-1 preset with MPEG TS muxing from a DV camcorder.
• Capture crash on 64-bit systems resolved.
• Sony PSP H.264/AVC file errors fixed.
• MPEG-4 Part 2 import problems (video stream) solved.
• DVCPRO 50 encoding issues resolved.
• Batch encoding issues with Custom MPEG-1 profile resolved.
• LPCM audio stream in MPEG PS import problems fixed.

Upgrade to Reference 2 – 50% Special Discount on the First Order:

For a limited time only, MainConcept is offering Reference 1.x customers a 50% discount on the first order for Reference 2 Codec Plug-Ins.
Whether you want to order just one Reference Codec Plug-in only, or you want to order the entire set of Codec Plug-Ins, you get a 50% discount on your first order.

Why upgrade? With Reference 2 you get powerful new features including:

• Capture functionality
• New preset structure for quick access to the most important presets.
• Subtitle rendering support for *.srt and *.sub files.

For details on how to get your 50% discount, e-mail your name, a copy of your invoice and the Reference 1.x serial number to sales(at)mainconcept.de. Take advantage of this limited time offer today!