https://ac3freedomday.org/ http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php

>>59528883
AC3 sounds like complete ass

tybg

Nice, but I sincerely hope people aren't using AC3 outside of shitty DVD's.

>>59528982
Of course no one is encoding crappy AC-3

>Is AC-3 any good? Should I use it for new stuff?

>No, of course not. AC-3 is over 25 years old and horribly inefficient.

Unfortunately you need to decode AC-3 for DVDs, so yeah, now you can do it legally and Dolby can't do anything about it since all their patents expired

> The last MPEG LA listed patents don't expire until 2027 in the US.

Fucking God. Praying AV1 takes off, get me out of this Hell.

>>59528982
Dimension, fleet and almost all others from scene still using ac3 for audio. Is that because their source was in ac3 or because some other reasons?

>>59529269
Their source was in AC3, every broadcast is done with AC3 or LPCM
Even on BD's AC3 still lives as Dolby TrueHD is just an extended version of AC3 that's backwards compatible, like Wavpack hybrid mode