MultiChannel AAC in Quicktime?

[danruiid]

Re: Re: This is not a rumour - it was confirmed at the quicktime keynote at WWDC

Originally posted by evolu
Wouldn't software have to decode first? Meaning Optical out has all the information for a decoder to work off of (like info from a DVD).

But if AAC has 6 distinct channels, it has already been decoded.

Nope!

See, what we have is format wars here. The problem with AAC in this case is that it's not Dolby Digital. And that is what multichannel speakersets decode. So if you have a 6 channel AAC file, it must be transcoded into Dolby Digital before the speakers can process the signal.

Fortunately, AAC and DD are practically the same format! AAC is really a more advanced form of Dolby Digital, which are both from Dolby. Nice, huh?

 

[danruiid]

Re: Watch the State of the Quicktime Union Address

Originally posted by NEOFEX
This is not a rumor, but confirmed in the QuickTime State of the Union movie. They say any surround sound mode is supported not just 5.1 in the upcoming release of Quicktime for Panther.

Does anybody else see this trend. Pixlet to give us a great look at HD content with no visual artifacts at the same time we get and surround mode you want built into QuickTime. Can we say Apple Movie Store. I knew you could. Apple would be foolish to not get in on this but the real question is not whether they will but when. Pixlet needs a 1 gigahertz G4 to decode. When HD DVD's become more mainstream so will their burning bretherin. Perhaps this is the missing ingredient apple needs to make an online movie store feasable or useful. One man's opinion.

Well, that would be fine and dandy, but I'm personally not in the mood to be downloading 50GBs of data to watch Lord of the Rings

(see elsewhere in this thread for explanation)

 

[Windowlicker]

I watched the stream and they really have some impressive stuff coming out that color sync thingy was really cool (though I won't have much use for it) and also the mobile stuff was very interesting.

guess I'll have to buy a surround system if I get a G5 (or G6 or whatever) some day.. and one hell of a big room for the audio system to work properly (about which people don't seem to think too much when buying these surround systems).

 

[MacRAND]

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