[FFmpeg-user] Feature/Request: Add basic support for Dolby Atmos encoding with Dolby Digital Plus and TrueHD

[Andrew Sun]

On 10/31/2016 8:34 PM, Phil Rhodes wrote:
> I'd have to ask what you would intend using it for; I guess it might be possible to use some of the open DCP tools to build Atmos-compatible DCPs.
> The thing is, any environment capable of mixing it to any standard is likely to be a sufficiently big, sufficiently expensive facility that it would have the proprietary encoders anyway.
> In short, clearly possible, but what's the point?
> P

The point is to provide an open-source way for mixers who also use 
ffmpeg to encode Dolby Atmos content.
The Dolby TrueHD encoder is almost finished in development for TrueHD 
streams without Atmos, so it won't
be a bad idea to add support for Atmos encoding with TrueHD eventually.

Andrew Sun