Using Perian to achieve Dolby Digital passthrough with Quicktime
Since a lot of Apple users use our iAadapt 51 toslink adapter to achieve Dolby 5.1 sound support, we thought it would be a good idea to mention this wonderful quicktime plugin called Perian.
Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component (Plug-in) that adds native support for many popular video formats. Perian allows Mac computer to do a AC3/DTS passthrough.
The Computer doesn't automatically output 5.1 you have some tinkering to configure it.
Also, there is an option to use a "gamma fix" to fix the full screen dimming issue if you are using your mac or mac mini as a media server and running it all through quicktime.
Perian enables QuickTime application support for additional media:
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File formats: AVI, DIVX, FLV, MKV, GVI, VP6, and VFW
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Video types: MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivx, H.264, Sorenson H.263, FLV/Sorenson Spark, FSV1, VP6, H263i, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Snow, NuppelVideo, Techsmith Screen Capture, DosBox Capture
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Audio types: Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), and MPEG Layer I & II Audio, True Audio, DTS Coherent Acoustics, Nellymoser ASAO
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AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3
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Subtitle support for SSA/ASS and SRT
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