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<blockquote data-quote="wiyosaya" data-source="post: 1303978" data-attributes="member: 145864"><p>Sorry to hear about Pablik. His contribution to the team will be hard to replace.</p><p></p><p>I do know that he said he did the initial work of adding AC4 decoding to MePo, so for another developer to pick that up might not be that difficult if a release of ffmpeg that supports AC4 appears. For myself, I imagine that I would be able to pick up his work (I develop software professionally and I have plenty of C, C++ and .Net experience), but at this time, I would not have the time to contribute as anywhere near as much as Pablik did.</p><p></p><p>And speaking of the Reddit thread, I don't think that Reddit is the be all and end-all. I often find better answers on many subjects elsewere. For instance: <a href="https://www.watchnextgentv.com/shop/" target="_blank">Here's a list of ATSC 3.0 tuners and other devices that are available</a>. I have not tried any of these myself, but several of them list the ability to receive encrypted channels. I don't know what the audio output is from any of the tuners as I just found this list yesterday. But,</p><p></p><p>while searching yesterday, <a href="https://github.com/ferrellsl/VideoPlayer" target="_blank">I also found this open-source Media Player that claims to be able to tune ATSC 3.0 channels and find and decode the AC4 audio stream</a>. It looks like it is not easy to use, and whether it would be compatible with MePo as an external Media Player, I do not know.</p><p></p><p>Not only that, but the developer is offering to send sources for a version of FFMpeg that supports AC4 to interested parties. Perhaps he can be convinced to submit his ffmpeg code to ffmpeg for approval. What I don't know, however, is if Dolby would aggressively go after any open-source project that supports AC4.</p><p></p><p>On that note, one of the posts <a href="https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/8349" target="_blank">near the end of this ffmpeg Trak thread</a> lists several contacts, in particular, the ATSC 3.0 committee, to contact in regards to persuading them to support an open-source codec for ATSC 3.0 or beyond.</p><p></p><p>Personally, I can envision a convincing argument for that as AC4, itself, is crippling the market especially for us HTPC enthusiasts.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, maybe this is an iota of hope.</p><p></p><p>This Chomsky quote may be relevant -</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wiyosaya, post: 1303978, member: 145864"] Sorry to hear about Pablik. His contribution to the team will be hard to replace. I do know that he said he did the initial work of adding AC4 decoding to MePo, so for another developer to pick that up might not be that difficult if a release of ffmpeg that supports AC4 appears. For myself, I imagine that I would be able to pick up his work (I develop software professionally and I have plenty of C, C++ and .Net experience), but at this time, I would not have the time to contribute as anywhere near as much as Pablik did. And speaking of the Reddit thread, I don't think that Reddit is the be all and end-all. I often find better answers on many subjects elsewere. For instance: [URL='https://www.watchnextgentv.com/shop/']Here's a list of ATSC 3.0 tuners and other devices that are available[/URL]. I have not tried any of these myself, but several of them list the ability to receive encrypted channels. I don't know what the audio output is from any of the tuners as I just found this list yesterday. But, while searching yesterday, [URL='https://github.com/ferrellsl/VideoPlayer']I also found this open-source Media Player that claims to be able to tune ATSC 3.0 channels and find and decode the AC4 audio stream[/URL]. It looks like it is not easy to use, and whether it would be compatible with MePo as an external Media Player, I do not know. Not only that, but the developer is offering to send sources for a version of FFMpeg that supports AC4 to interested parties. Perhaps he can be convinced to submit his ffmpeg code to ffmpeg for approval. What I don't know, however, is if Dolby would aggressively go after any open-source project that supports AC4. On that note, one of the posts [URL='https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/8349']near the end of this ffmpeg Trak thread[/URL] lists several contacts, in particular, the ATSC 3.0 committee, to contact in regards to persuading them to support an open-source codec for ATSC 3.0 or beyond. Personally, I can envision a convincing argument for that as AC4, itself, is crippling the market especially for us HTPC enthusiasts. Anyway, maybe this is an iota of hope. This Chomsky quote may be relevant - [/QUOTE]
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