In 2000 Dolby Labs finally corrected their 24 year old mistake by Designing the Dolby Pro Logic II system with consideration for videogames and computers games. Any game system capable of generating real-time stereo sound should be able to generate real-time 5.1 channel audio with "very little" additional CPU usage. Although the technical details have not been published, Dolby Labs has stated that real-time Dolby Pro Logic II for game systems is done in "gaming mode". Because of this, it can be assumed that quality is slightly less than pre-recorded sounds. However, systems can still play higher quality pre-recorded sounds along with generated ones in cases where this theoretical quality difference could manifest.

Sound Related:
Dolby Digital Sound System
Dolby Surround (Dolby Pro Logic)
Dolby Pro Logic II (Dolby Surround 5.1)
Stereo audio
Redbook Audio (Compact Disc Digital Audio;CDDA)
Mockingboard soundcard
Miles Sound System (MSS)
KidVid audio player peripheral
Vorbis audio encoding
OpenAL (OAL;Open Audio Library)
Voice control (Audio input;Voice input;Speech recognition)
Supercharger audio gameloader
FMOD audio engine
Environmental Audio Extensions (EAX)
Environmental Audio Extensions 2 (EAX 2.0)
Environmental Audio Extensions 3 (EAX 3.0;EAX Advanced HD)
Environmental Audio Extensions 4 (EAX 4.0)
Environmental Audio Extensions 5 (EAX 5.0)
BASS audio library
AtariVox Speech Synthesizer

Zerothis - # 2007-08-25 08:59:07