Enable the industry-leading surround audio experience in FFmpeg workflows
Now content producers and broadcasters can seamlessly process Dolby Digital (AC-3) and Dolby Digital Plus (EAC-3) audio technologies directly within an FFmpeg workflow. Developed from the MainConcept Dolby Digital Plus Pro SDK, it is available as an encoder and a decoder.

Easy to integrate
Drop Dolby Digital’s AC-3 and E-AC-3 audio software encoder and decoder into new or existing FFmpeg environments.
Dolby approved
The first officially approved and Dolby-certified option for FFmpeg workflows and usage.
OTT & Broadcast format support
Encoding and decoding for OTT-compliant streaming use cases like MPEG-DASH and HLS, as well as broadcast.
- Dolby Digital Plus Pro Decoder
- Dolby Digital Plus Pro Encoder
Features
- Officially authorized and certified by Dolby
- Broadcast quality AC-3 and E-AC-3 playback support
- Support for 32000, 44100 or 48000 Hz sample rates in the decoder
- Decoding of up to 7.1 audio channels
- Seamlessly integrates with other MainConcept Video Decoders for FFmpeg, and also with FFmpeg’s built-in video decoders and demultiplexers
- Simple approach for fast integration into existing FFmpeg workflows
- Officially authorized and certified by Dolby
- Broadcast quality AC-3 and E-AC-3 support
- Supports output bit rates from 0.032 to 6.144 Mbit/s
- Support for 48000 Hz sample rate in the encoder
- Encoding of up to 7.1 audio channels
- Pass encoding parameters via ready-to-use MainConcept config files or via command-line
- Supports all options and parameters from the Dolby Digital Plus Pro Encoder Low Level SDK library
- Seamlessly integrates with other MainConcept Video Encoders for FFmpeg, and also with FFmpeg’s built-in video encoders and multiplexers