For those of you who know what the Dolby AC3 Audio Codec is (and have felt the pain of it not being supported) this will be your present. Our BlackBerry 10 here as well as the Dev Alpha’s have been able to play MKV’s and AC-3 encoded sounds rather flawlessly. This support has been evidently missing on other platforms and since BlackBerry 10 is coming to the PlayBook, this will be a boom for our PlayBooks! With Native support, expect flawless media! Now, looking at other platforms, AC3 support is practically non-existent on iOS with only one paid app supporting it. Dolby has been threatening patent lawsuits left and right at anyone that has not specifically licensed the codec. I am not sure if RIM has licensed the codec or this came out of RIM’s agreement to license AAC tech in 2011.
PS: this works well in avi container as well!