AC3 vs AC3 Passthrough The Ultimate Showdown for Audio Fidelity

PowerDVD supports up to Dolby True HD pass through, so you should check what's the maximum bitrate your audio hardware supports to ensure it is compatible with ... Sbiddle mentioned that he's tested a Samsung Series 7, but apparently there was no way to select AC3 audio while viewing Freeview|HD (i.e. some ... It seems that Apple has deliberately limited the functionality of its CoreAudio API to only permit the passthrough of digital audio for Good Ol' ... ... pass-through and get surround sound on my AVR. AFAIK the AC3 patent has run out some time ago, so the encoder should be free to use by now. Hi! I just installed the latest LMDE yesterday. I was using Mint 11 before. My computer is connected to a A/V surround reciever via HDMI. So, I would like to play AC3 stream (DVD, Dolby Digital or DTS) in "PassThrough" mode. So, that means the should not do any modifications on ... In terms of audio quality, AAC appears to have higher resolution than AC3. But AC3 beats AAC in the field of surround sound since AC3 is widely used for home ... It would seem as if AC3 transcoding would solve this sync problem. Is the fact that "Player -> Sync Playback to Display" is forced to be off in ... Unfortunately I'm afraid that it won't support AC3.. :-( Only PCM feeds are supported with the UDIO8. devTeam. For videos with ac3 audio it's always Direct/V which is output as downmixed stereo PCM. If I press the ! button it switches to Direct/I ...