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Does anyone know how Win7 will incorporate Dolby Digital Plus? I couldn't find any specific information. Will it be a part of the Windows Media Audio codec or what? I'm in the dark here.
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Dolby Digital Plus and Windows 7
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Dolby Digital plus is a soundcard feature not an OS feature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Digital_Plus
Check the specs of soundcards and AV amps.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Digital_Plus
Check the specs of soundcards and AV amps.
As a practical matter, DD+ will never really be supported to any capacity by anything but the Blu-Ray playback software you buy because there is no reason otherwise. DD+ is a movie sound format. Windows Media files don't need it, they have high def sound in the form of Windows Media Audio. Also your computer would have no compelling reason to encode a signal as DD+ to send to your receiver. DD+ can only be sent over HDMI. Well HDMI can also do uncompressed 7.1 sound. So the computer can just send that instead, and save the CPU power.
Blu-Ray software supports it, and probably you'll be able to set it to pass the bitstream out to your receiver if you've got an HDMI audio card, but that's all.
The only encoding we are ever likely to see is Dolby Digital Live and DTS Interactive. Those support S/PDIF and thus are of interest to people who want digital 5.1 but don't have HDMI audio. All the newer formats like DTS-HD, DD+ and so on only are carried over HDMI. Since HDMI already handles the uncompressed signal fine, it would be a total waste of time to implement an encoder.
Blu-Ray software supports it, and probably you'll be able to set it to pass the bitstream out to your receiver if you've got an HDMI audio card, but that's all.
The only encoding we are ever likely to see is Dolby Digital Live and DTS Interactive. Those support S/PDIF and thus are of interest to people who want digital 5.1 but don't have HDMI audio. All the newer formats like DTS-HD, DD+ and so on only are carried over HDMI. Since HDMI already handles the uncompressed signal fine, it would be a total waste of time to implement an encoder.