Re: openal ac3 S/PDIF

Kip Warner <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.openal
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 03:02 -0700, Chris Robinson wrote: 
> I'm not sure what licensing issues there may be with AC3 decoders, though. 
> Someone with a bit more knowledge may have to speak up on that.

I'm actually running in to the same issue regarding licensing issues for
AC3 for the sci-fi game I am working on,

https://www.avaneya.com

If you look here under the Audio Hardware section, you'll find where we
are on the issue:

https://www.avaneya.com/faq.html#sysreq

I think an option is to have it as a configure / compile time switch
which is disabled by default, but let people who are in a locality that
does not acknowledge software patents enable it if they wish.

I'm also thinking he doesn't want to decode AC3 in software, but rather
encode to AC3 on the fly and as S/PDIF pass though to an external
decoder.

-- 
Kip Warner -- Software Engineer
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