Is Audio codec AC3 supported by Divx Mobile

1 reply [Last post]
Frankboh
Frankboh's picture
User offline. Last seen 3 years 7 weeks ago. Offline
Joined: 12/19/2008
Posts: 1
Groups: None

Hello fellow users and developers at DivM Mobile:

I downloaded the latest DivX Mobile Player (.90) for Windows 6 onto my PPC HP Enterprise 210 however my videos audio-recorded with AC3 codec are mute. It looks as if this codec is not yet supported. When, if ever, do you envisage an audio-codec AC3 upgrade?
Thank you very much for your help.
Frankboh

DivXMobile
DivXMobile's picture
User offline. Last seen 12 hours 22 min ago. Offline
Joined: 02/12/2007
Posts: 743
No AC3

The latest version of DMP is 0.92.

DMP only plays MP3 audio. AC3 is not supported and probably never will be due to the high bitrate and licensing costs associated with AC3.

Many programs like VirtualDub or FFMPEG will transcode the audio from AC3 to MP3 without re-encoding the video. Unfortunately all of the software from DivX (Converter, Author and Dr. DivX) will insist on re-encoding the video which takes much longer and affects the picture quality.

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.