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I believe part of this is because Dolby is suing Adobe, saying they mandate certain pricing requirements in the license agreements, and so Adobe has responded by pulling old versions of their software with support for Dolby file formats.

[0] https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6002319/Dolbyvsad...




I think in the latest iteration of Media Encoder it can no longer accept MKV containers.... I'm wondering if it was also tied to some license issue.


Huh, but MKV is Matroska, and it's a free-to-use open standard...


Don't expect a non-free software company to understand the difference between a media container and bitstream codec.




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