Feross Aboukhadijeh
Feross Aboukhadijeh
@rom1504 This is actually a different issue than feross/webtorrent#405. WebTorrent Deskop doesn't use webtorrent's `file.appendTo()` functionality since it can just start an http server with `torrent.createServer()` and point the ``...
I just noticed that VLC for iOS just added AC-3 and E-AC-3 support for iOS 9.3 and later. Apparently iOS, and OS X (since El Capitan) have native support now....
In addtion to macOS, Windows is also shipping free, built-in AC3 support (as of Windows 8). For that reason, Microsoft Edge and Safari both support playing AC3 files in the...
Electron actually already includes ffmpeg since it's required by Chromium. The cleanest way to add support would be if Chromium added support for additional codecs to the video tag. That's...
**If you want Dolby surround sound (AC3) support in WebTorrent, please star this Chromium issue: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=611517**
@FluorescentHallucinogen Yes, I saw that site. Great news! Hoping that the Chrome team adds support so we can get support automatically without making any changes to Electron!
> The current audio is E-AC3, not AC3 Plenty of audio is AC3, and this would indeed solve the issue for AC3 audio.
Yeah, this feature doesn't seem like it's working correctly anymore.
@MathieuDebit Any ideas how they support the AC3 audio codec? Are they running `ffmpeg` manually? Or did they bundle the codec into the chromium content module?
> did you already explore this approach? Yep, we did at one point in time but abandoned it because it complicated the build process too much and the legal situation...