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Decoding Dolby digital on a PC?

Simple Problem: Comcast Motorola DVR. It has a Dolby encoded Tos and coaxial Digital audio output. My primary use is Music Choice, which is 2 channel, but still Dolby encoded. A few years ago there was a PCM option for this. Using a Benchmark DAC1 at the time it sounded very impressive, despite what I assume to be MP3 compression.

All I want to do is the same thing now but with the Dolby encoding mucking the works.

Soundcards: It looks like many do a bunch of Dolby Encoding synthesis, but decoding is less clear.

Software: Arcsoft, for example, has scads of stuff that is clear about everything except decoding Dolby.

I have a decent proto-HTPC with a Soundblaster Audio Extreme. In what direction do I go to get simple superb
decoding? 2-channel analog or coaxial PCM is fine.

Am I missing something here?
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gmood1
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I'm a little confused by your question. What exactly do you
need the PC for? Are you planning to record to the PC and
playback from it? Thanks

There's a crap load of free software out there that will
decode Dolby and DTS on the PC. You can download K-lite
codec pack from www.filehippo.com.

As long as you have a Sound card to output it, you should be
fine. Most sound cards do these days.
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