VLC and DTS

Anonymus · Postby **Anonymus** » 18 Jul 2005 20:46

Is it intentionally that VLC doesn't play DTS files any more?

zorg47 · Postby **zorg47** » 19 Jul 2005 05:09

Yes, look at the news for VLC 0.8.0:
http://videolan.org/news.html

VSTM · Postby **VSTM** » 19 Jul 2005 08:46

Will they add DTS support back now that the EU voted against software patents?

Guest · Postby **Guest** » 19 Jul 2005 23:19

Why 0.8.1 windows version plays DTS, AC3 and both of these in WAV also but 0.8.2 only playbacks AC3 files (also WAV), in WAV file length is wrong, http://www.diatonis.com/downloads/diato ... c3_wav.zip with that at least?
0.8.1 was downloaded from videolan.org, so the support was "forgotten" to 0.8.1 version?

Postby **fkuehne** » 21 Jul 2005 16:21

Will they add DTS support back now that the EU voted against software patents?

No, because DTS, Inc. owns patents in Europe, which pretend to be still valid under current European law. Since we don't have the funds to check whether they are really valid, we cannot provide DTS support in our binaries.

@Guest: VLC does not support DTS decoding. Only passthrough of DTS-data to external hardware receivers is supported. Don't confuse AC3 and DTS. These are completely different codecs.

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