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

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

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

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?

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.