A system capable of real-time encoding of multichannel Dolby AC-3 Audio is presented. The system is based on a standard PC platform containing multiple DSP ICs and interface boards for digital audio and SMPTE time code. The software, written primarily in C, consists of AC-3 encoding software running on the DSP network and user interface software running on the host CPU within the PC. The system may be used in laser disc and DVD mastering applications.

Authors: Terry, Kent; Seaver, John
Affiliation: Dolby Laboratories Inc., San Francisco, CA
AES Convention: 101 (November 1996) Paper Number: 4363
Publication Date: November 1, 1996
Subject: Multichannel Sound Systems

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