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The Dolby® Digital Consumer SDK supports 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 is the sound for DVDs worldwide, found in DVD players, broadcasted HDTV channels, IPTV solutions, etc. The AC-3 standard is based on the ATSC A52 Revision B specification.

Availability

For Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, the codec SDK (Software Development Kit) consists of a Low Level API (in the C programming language) as well as DirectShow filters for decoding and encoding AC-3 streams. The decoder filter can be used by any DirectShow® application (e.g. Windows® Media Player).

Dolby Digital Consumer is available as 32-bit and 64-bit for Windows and Linux. A Mac OS X version is currently only available as 32-bit version (64-bit will follow soon).

Please note that you have to be a Dolby® licensee, i.e. you have to be registered at Dolby, in order to evaluate the MainConcept Dolby® Digital Consumer SDK. Otherwise, we cannot provide you with an SDK for evaluation.