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In the Dolby E race Minnetonka have announced the release of v1.3 of their Surcode for Dolby E plug-in. This is from their press release…

The SurCode of Dolby® E suite consists of separate encoder and decoder plug-ins, a cost effective model affording more flexibility in purchase, deployment and use than monolithic products. The SurCode for Dolby® E Encoder has had several improvements, including better interoperability across all decoder platforms as well as user interface improvements. The SurCode for Dolby® E Decoder version 1.30 delivers improved performance with a wide variety of host and plug–in settings. CPU utilization has also been reduced, alone with significant functionality additions to streamline workflow.
For Digidesign users, the new decoder version automatically detects where the Dolby E stream resides within the very strict confines of the Pro Tools 5.1 or 7.1 bus architecture so no I/O reordering is required. The new decoder optionally configures Pro Tools channels to decode a Dolby E stereo program, a 5.1 program, or all eight channels at once. Multiple programs in the data essence can be handled simultaneously, all live and in real time. For Nuendo users, Minnetonka Audio Software has added support for decode from track as well as from live input.

There also has been an interesting thread on problems with real time decoding in which both Jason from Minnetonka and Paul from Neyrinck have contributed as well as some other serious experts.

You can find this thread here on the DUC.