Understanding the Dolby Digital Decoder (AC3) Technology

• January 25, 2022
• By Rhishikesh Agashe

Introduction To AC3

AC3 is an audio data compression technology by Dolby Laboratories. It is also known as Audio Codec 3. The AC3 algorithm can encode multiple audio channel formats into a single low-rate bitstream. The configurations supported by Dolby AC3 are:

1. Conventional
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