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AC3 - Dolby Digital AC-3 Audio, File Format Information and Conversion

AC3 - Dolby Digital AC-3 Audio

Dolby Digital, formerly known as AC-3, is a digital audio compression format. Dolby Digital takes advantage of how the human ear processes sound. When coding noise is close to the frequency of an audio signal, that audio signal masks the noise so that the human ear hears only the intended audio signal.

Dolby Digital is used with digital versatile discs (DVDs), in North America only. European DVD's use MPEG audio instead.

Dolby Digital provides five full-bandwidth channels, front left, front right, center, surround left, and surround right, for true surround sound quality. A low frequency effect (LFE) channel is included that provides the sound needed for special effects and action sequences in movies. The LFE channel is one-tenth of the bandwidth of the other channels and is sometimes erroneously called the subwoofer channel. This multichannel scheme is known as 5.1 channel.

 

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Convert from AC3(Dolby Digital AC-3 Audio)

To extract audio from AC3(Dolby Digital AC-3 Audio), you will need Audio Converter.

Please see the following tutorials.

AIF(AIFF/AIFC Apple Audio)Tutorial: AC3 to AIF
M4A(MPEG-4 Audio)Tutorial: AC3 to M4A
MP3(MPEG Layer-3)Tutorial: AC3 to MP3
MPA(MPEG Audio)Tutorial: AC3 to MPA
OGG(OGG Vorbis Audio)Tutorial: AC3 to OGG
RA(RealAudio)Tutorial: AC3 to RA
WAV(Waveform)Tutorial: AC3 to WAV
WMA(Windows Media Audio)Tutorial: AC3 to WMA



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