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Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 611517
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Closed: Apr 2017
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OS: Linux
Pri: 2
Type: Feature



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Add support of AC-3 decoding

Reported by fluoresc...@gmail.com, Apr 20 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3076.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
Try to play media file encoded using AC-3 codec

What is the expected behavior?
Chromium should support AC-3 decoding

What went wrong?
Chromium doesn't support AC-3 decoding

Did this work before? N/A 

Does this work in other browsers? N/A

Chrome version: 60.0.3076.0  Channel: canary
OS Version: 
Flash Version: 

Finally, on 19.03.2017, the last of Dolby's patents over the AC-3 codec expired. You can read more about it on https://ac3freedomday.org (cached page: https://web.archive.org/web/20170401170436/https://ac3freedomday.org).

This means that now Chromium team can enable full AC-3 support (AC-3 decoding) without need to pay royalty.
 

Comment 1 by ajha@chromium.org, Apr 21 2017

Components: Internals>Media>Audio
Labels: -Type-Bug Type-Feature
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
Marking this as Untriaged and labeling the bug accordingly for more inputs from the respective team.
Owner: dalecur...@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)
this is more like a feature request. Dale, what's your thought?
Mergedinto: 611517
Status: Duplicate (was: Assigned)

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