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Posted in Programming on Apr 23rd, 2008
Well, I got to fiddling around with the existing passthrough on the AppleTV. I found where it works, and where it doesn’t. AC3 passthrough does work in .mov files with 48KHz files, of any bit rate. I did this with importing a .ac3 file into .mov, and adding a video track (ATV [...]
Posted in General on Apr 21st, 2008
So, the good folk over at FFmpeg have stared a Hall of Shame. Basically, it is a page of projects which are using FFmpeg in direct violation of its license. The developers have asked that people link to that page, thereby increasing its ranking in Google. Well, here’s my part. Why [...]
Posted in Programming on Feb 9th, 2008
I have seen a few people post methods about enabling AC3 passthrough, and many of them are overly complicated or in some cases even wrong. Since I designed the code that actually does this, I’ll list the steps here:
Note: This does not work with all receivers. If these instructions fail for you, most [...]
Posted in Programming on Feb 7th, 2008
For those who don’t know yet, Perian version 1.1 has been released. This one was a long time coming, including large sections of code which were written for 1.1 before 1.0 was even released.
Now it is time to sit back, relax, and get some sleep before the bug reports start piling in.
Posted in Programming on Jan 31st, 2008
Well, it started before 1.0 was even released. We started looking at methods to optimize the routines within Perian to run even faster. The road has been a bit of a long one. Now, we are in a private beta. The beta has been opened to those who have donated to the [...]