[vdr] Re: How to name the audio tracks?

["Martin Binder \(AON\)" <martin_binder@aon.at>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Juszack" <vdr@unterbrecher.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 11:39 AM
Subject: [vdr] Re: How to name the audio tracks?


> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Matthias Fechner" <idefix@fechner.net>
> To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 1:17 AM
> Subject: [vdr] Re: How to name the audio tracks?
> 
> 
>> Hello Klaus,
>>
>> * Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de> [28-12-04 12:55]:
>> >   Audio
>> >
>> >   Analog (deu)
>> >   Analog (eng)
>> >   Dolby (deu)
>>
>> why not use something like this:
>> DD 2.0 (deu)
>> or
>> Dolby Digital 2.0 (deu)
>>
>> If you have a 5.1 Signal you can name it:
>> DD 5.1 (deu)
>> or
>> Dolby Digital 5.1 (deu)
>>
>> This is the normal nameconvention on all DVDs.
>> (The point is, you dont have a analog audio signal, so i think DD2.0
>> is here better).
>> For mono audio you can use DD1.0 and for DTS DTS (maybe interesting
>> for some plugins).
>>
>> Thx for your really great piece of software.
>>
>> -- 
>> Bye
>> Matthias
>>
>>
>>
> 
> As Rainer Zocholl wrote I strongly recommend not to use Dolby or even DD.
> Dolby is a trademark of the Dolby laboratories and I think everybody knows
> how some companies to open source software.
> 
> The only way would be asking Dolby for permission. I don't think they will
> give for nothing because they make their money by selling the 'Dolby
> certified' mark.
> 
> 
> 
>

I don't think that it is a problem to name the DolbyStream as Dolby Digital: 

The Dolby audio stream is generated by the broadcaster (with a licensed decoder i would assume) - and therefore *it is* a DolbDigital signal (btw is DTS possible / allowed in a DVB-stream?). VDR does not decode the signal, you need a dolby certified equipment and the manufacturer has to pay the license fee to Dolby Labs.

Martin