AC-3 ACM Codec (formerly AC-3 ACM Decompressor) offers Dolby Digital AC-3 decoding for Windows ACM. Install this and you can convert/decompress AC3 audio directly to WAV / MP3 using
VirtualDub.
This also works with
AviSynth,
TMPGEnc, allowing you to use AC3 encoded AVI files, not normally recognized.
How to install/uninstall AC-3 ACM Codec:
If you've never installed the decompressor before, simply right-click on the "AC3ACM.inf" file, and choose "Install" from the popup menu. I don't think it's necessary to reboot, but it can't hurt. If you get a scary warning that the program has not passed "Windows Logo testing" (which is quite true BTW), choose to "Continue Anyway."
To uninstall the decompressor, start Control Panel's "Add/Remove Programs" dialog, select "AC-3 ACM Decompressor", and press the "Add/Remove" button.
If you have installed a previous version of the decompressor, I recommend you uninstall the old version as described above, and reboot Windows before installing this version. (It's probably not necessary to do all that, but again, it can't hurt.)
Tags :
- AC-3 ACM Codec solves the missing audio codec error, reported by
GSpot:
ac3 (0x2000) Dolby Laboratories, Inc
Changes in AC-3 ACM Codec 2.2:
- By request the x86 version now works on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows NT 4.
- Fixed an uninstall problem specific to 64-bit Windows.
- Added experimental support for tag WAVE_FORMAT_EXTENSIBLE.
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AC-3 ACM Codec (formerly AC-3 ACM Decompressor) 1.9
on 26 September 2011, reviewed by: dissapointed
#25415
I downloaded it and it wont allow me to install the 32 bit version even though my laptop is 32, also when i try the 64 it says a file is missing even though the missing file is right next to it.
Any advice would be helpful! The file it says its missing is AC3ACM.inf
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AC-3 ACM Codec (formerly AC-3 ACM Decompressor) 1.9
on 20 August 2011, reviewed by: herosz
#25280
appears 5.1 channels but unfortunatelly only 2 channels compression works :(
VirtualDub says : The audio codec cannot compress to the desired format
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AC-3 ACM Codec (formerly AC-3 ACM Decompressor) 1.9
on 16 July 2011, reviewed by: Steve Kim
#25110
It works perfectly.
Now I can encode the video stream with Dolby AC3 when I record the HDTV.
GREAAT, THANKS!!!